Kinkade is a … deadbeat

[BioBeing]

I have to admit - I have never like Thomas "Painter of Light" Kinkade pictures. To me, they are the worst form of kitsch - something even Elvis would never have deemed unworthy enough to hang on his walls.

So, it only seems fair when he gets his comeuppance.

One of Thomas Kinkade's companies filed for bankruptcy protection Wednesday, a day after a $1-million payment was due to former gallery owners who have tried for four years to collect on a judgment they won against the self-styled "painter of light."

The Chapter 11 petition was filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in San Jose in the name of the Kinkade production arm, Pacific Metro of Morgan Hill, Calif. It allows Pacific Metro to reorganize and puts an automatic stay on the collection of all judgments, including one for $3 million owed to Karen Hazlewood and Jeff Spinello.

"Kinkade is a … deadbeat," said their lawyer, Norman Yatooma, who accused the artist and his Los Angeles attorney, Dana Levitt, of "breaching their agreement" to pay up. "Kinkade's word is as worthless as his artwork. His lawyer is no better."

Hat tip to Pharyngula (http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/06/poor_painter_of_light.php), and I have to steal PZ's image too...

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/06/poor_painter_of_light/kinkade.jpeg

[miss djax]

love it!!!! i can't stand his 'work'. my fundy parents and their friends all 'collect' it *shudder*

[Notta]

I want PZ's picture of the lighthouse framed and put up in my office.

Oh good god he has a whole gallery of Disney-inspired paintings (http://www.thomaskinkade.com/magi/servlet/com.asucon.ebiz.catalog.web.tk.CatalogServlet?cata logAction=SpecialList&categoryId=966&searchOrderBy=ByDate).

[Roo St. Gallus]

Ramen!

Kinkade's personal financial circumstances finally match his aesthetic insights.

[Matty]

that image and a bunch others are from something awful.
http://images.somethingawful.com/inserts/articlepics/photoshop/01-23-04-kinkade/Slag.jpg
http://images.somethingawful.com/inserts/articlepics/photoshop/01-23-04-kinkade/ixnay.jpg

http://images.somethingawful.com/inserts/articlepics/photoshop/01-23-04-kinkade/markhate.jpg

[Politesse]

I just want to know what the ellipsis stands for.

[Roo St. Gallus]

I just want to know what the ellipsis stands for.

A long, thoughtful pause to assure that slander was not committed, is my bet.

[Daydream]

love it!!!! i can't stand his 'work'. my fundy parents and their friends all 'collect' it *shudder*

LOL! I can relate... I know a religious family that has his art all throughout their house.

[miss djax]

love it!!!! i can't stand his 'work'. my fundy parents and their friends all 'collect' it *shudder*

LOL! I can relate... I know a religious family that has his art all throughout their house.

scary, isn't it?

[Matty]

love it!!!! i can't stand his 'work'. my fundy parents and their friends all 'collect' it *shudder*

LOL! I can relate... I know a religious family that has his art all throughout their house.

wait, its NOT a laughing stock?

Jesus.

[miss djax]

love it!!!! i can't stand his 'work'. my fundy parents and their friends all 'collect' it *shudder*

LOL! I can relate... I know a religious family that has his art all throughout their house.

wait, its NOT a laughing stock?

Jesus.

no, it isn't. its art. and you can pay 'extra' for ones that kinkade himself 'touched up' with extra paint strokes, dontcha know.

which is lame because even is fervent 'collectors' are admitting :

1. he doesn't do the work
2. they're paying outrageous amounts of money for fucking PRINTS


but hey, he's the 'painter of light' so somehow its a big deal?

ugh.

i collect art. real art. not that bullshit crap. i have mark mothersbaugh stuff, the lead singer of devo, who has quite an amazing art career, and these pieces, part of 10 in a series are 1/10th of the price as the fucking kinkdade shit my parents have.

UGH

here's one of my pieces, from his beautiful mutant series

http://www.mutatovisual.com/images/2004_mutants/cyclo-augen-pet.jpg

[Monad]

Jeez that crappy Hallmark card stuff is so bad - do people really buy that stuff? (I mean as art rather than as cards etc)

[BioBeing]

I just want to know what the ellipsis stands for.

A long, thoughtful pause to assure that slander was not committed, is my bet.

That is what i figure too. I can just imagine the lawyer saying it, and grasping for the right word.

[espritch]

I have to admit - I have never like Thomas "Painter of Light" Kinkade pictures. To me, they are the worst form of kitsch - something even Elvis would never have deemed unworthy enough to hang on his walls.

From what I've heard, I think you may be underestimating Elvis's lack of taste.

[espritch]

Jeez that crappy Hallmark card stuff is so bad - do people really buy that stuff? (I mean as art rather than as cards etc)

People buy black velvet Elvis and Dogs Playing Poker. I think it was Mario Puzo who once said "I'm a lousy writer. It's a good thing a lot of people have lousy taste."

[BioBeing]

I have to admit - I have never like Thomas "Painter of Light" Kinkade pictures. To me, they are the worst form of kitsch - something even Elvis would never have deemed unworthy enough to hang on his walls.

From what I've heard, I think you may be underestimating Elvis's lack of taste.

Well, I have been to Graceland. He had very bad taste. But Kinkade? ;)