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How Thomas Kinkade became the ‘painter of light.”
New documentary ‘Art for Everybody’ charts painter Thomas Kinkade’s journey from brooding work to mass-producing ‘feel-good’ kitsch. Keep KCRW Independent. KCRW is here to provide you with local news, ...
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The Darkness of Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Light
Thomas Kinkade, “A Quiet Evening, Places in the Heart I” (1998), oil on board (image courtesy the Kinkade Family Foundation) Another defender is, unsurprisingly, one of Kinkade’s business ...
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Thomas Kinkade’s Life Was Nothing Like His Idealized Paintings. A New Documentary Looks at His Multimillion-Dollar Success and Dark Downfall
In the 1990s, Thomas Kinkade was the most successful artist of his time. His sentimental, sanitized landscapes full of Christian motifs and storybook cottages, some of which were lit with tiny ...
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Thomas Kinkade’s Life Was Nothing Like His Idealized Paintings. A New Documentary Looks at His Multimillion-Dollar Success and Dark Downfall
“A Quiet Evening” by Thomas Kinkade “I want to avoid painting silly and sweet pictures, charming pictures, happy pictures,” a 16-year-old Kinkade says in the film. “I want to paint the ...
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Thomas Kinkade’s Life Was Nothing Like His Idealized Paintings. A New Documentary Looks at His Multimillion-Dollar Success and Dark Downfall
“A Quiet Evening” by Thomas Kinkade “I want to avoid painting silly and sweet pictures, charming pictures, happy pictures,” a 16-year-old Kinkade says in the film. “I want to paint the truth, and … ...
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Thomas Kinkade’s Life Was Nothing Like His Idealized Paintings. A New Documentary Looks at His Multimillion-Dollar Success and Dark Downfall
In the 1990s, Thomas Kinkade was the most successful artist of his time. His sentimental, sanitized landscapes full of Christian motifs and storybook cottages, some of which were lit with tiny LEDs ...
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Thomas Kinkade’s Life Was Nothing Like His Idealized Paintings. A New Documentary Looks at His Multimillion-Dollar Success and Dark Downfall
“A Quiet Evening” by Thomas Kinkade “I want to avoid painting silly and sweet pictures, charming pictures, happy pictures,” a 16-year-old Kinkade says in the film.
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He Became The World’s Most Successful Artist Before Imploding: Thomas Kinkade’s Contradictions Revealed In Miranda Yousef Documentary – Doc Talk Podcast
Lampposts casting a glow over the scene. These are the soothing images – the functional equivalent of comfort food — that made artist Thomas Kinkade a fortune in the 1980s and ‘90s.
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A new documentary continues the Thomas Kinkade art hustle
It seems he has heard this before, and it doesn’t even register. It’s good that the Thomas Kinkade phenomenon — his empire of art galleries in shopping malls across the country; the Kinkade ...
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Did Thomas Kinkade secretly make good art? A new film investigates
“Thomas Kinkade had a quite outsize cultural impact with really bad art,” says the Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight in a new documentary film about the painter. “I ...
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‘Art for Everybody’ Review: An Illuminating Look at an American Painter Far Darker Than His ‘Art’ Let On
Thomas Kinkade once presided over an empire of radiantly unrealistic imagery, but his popular oeuvre reflected only a fraction of the man's identity, as Miranda Yousef's documentary reveals.