Comments on: Thomas Kinkade’s 16 Guidelines for Making Stuff Suck

By: Rial

Rial — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:53:08 +0000

First reaction when i saw the before and after: awesome.

By: Bettenhausen

Bettenhausen — Wed, 06 May 2009 02:33:53 +0000

Thanks, exactly what I was looking for. Saved me some time.

Bookmarked

By: Belle

Belle — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:36:15 +0000

I like to refer to him as the “Painter of Shite.” ‘Nuf said.

By: Never teh Bride

Never teh Bride — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:23:03 +0000

Jennie: Indeed I can! Maybe it’s time to start regifting. If you give the offending items right back, your relatives may get the hint.

La BellaDonna: I find that image…intriguing yet scary.

class factotum: I think perhaps it’s pretty in a holiday decor kind of way. Most people wouldn’t want their Christmas tree up all year long (though some would). Perhaps the answer is a two weeks a year KinKade period. After two weeks, all Kinkade goes back in the attic.

By: class factotum

class factotum — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:39:38 +0000

Yes, I know it’s not serious Art and I wouldn’t want it in my house, but {ducks} I think some of his stuff is pretty. And none of my tax money went to pay for something I find offensive with his stuff, so I can live with it.

By: La BellaDonna

La BellaDonna — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:40:51 +0000

It looks a lot like Norman Rockwell with sparkles. Have any evangelists been caught miscegenating with Tinkerbell lately?

By: sara

sara — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:16:45 +0000

Me too me too! Same thing when someone tells me they love classical music and proceed to gush about Sarah Brightman or the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Blecch.

By: Jennie

Jennie — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:35:16 +0000

What is worse is I think his lair is in the Carolinas. They advertise his “Galleries” all over the interstates. At worst, his abominations should only be allowed in Motel ^ or other lower end hostels. At best, he would have to work for 10 years at a landfill burying/burning the junk he has created.

By: Twistie

Twistie — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:24:13 +0000

Oh Jennie, you are far from alone. Thomas Kinkade represents everything I detest: bland, over-sanitized, syrupy, and heavily processed. He Must Be Stopped.

By: Jennie

Jennie — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 17:28:50 +0000

Thank you!!!! I thought I was the only one that hates, despises, abhors, and thinks it’s so past fugly anything Thomas Kinkade! I keep getting this crap for Christmas from family members that don’t seem to realize that it doesn’t go with my Chemiakins and Pearson art pieces. “Master of Light”! “Master of Mass Marketing” is more like it. Can you tell I feel a bit strongly about this?