Will someone tell me why?

Question

I am an artist/painter and appreciate an enormous variety of art. I also was educated at a prestegious art school in Rhode Island. There is an artist who is enjoying monetary success and recognition,an artist who now is an institution in himself,an artist who will never have to toil at a regular job again. I applaud any artist who is able to do this, regardless of what their medium or subjects are. This one I just cant figure out why it's such a phoenomenon -whats the appeal. How does Thomas Kinkade do it? Why do so many people buy hotel art?

Answer 1

LOL.

I knew who you were describing before reading the end of your question!

I like Thomas Kincade's commercial art, even though I would not buy an actual painting....too expensive!
But I do collect some postcards of his works, mainly the winter scenes and scenes with houses and cottages on rivers and babbling brooks.
For me, his works remind me of a simpler time....sort of a Norman Rockwell era....
And last Christmas he came out with a set of Christmas Ornaments that held his little cottages and were really old-fashioned looking snow-globes.

I think his "art" is just simple and similar to Norman Rockwell.


as for authentic artists, I am an admirer of Monet and Salvadore Dali, but unfortunately I cannot afford anything by them either, but I did visit their galleries in Paris!
Giverny is beautiful and since I lived there, I was able to see it for every season...the gardens are breathtaking year round!

(and some people dislike Monet and Dali and refer to their work as hotel art too!)

art is in the eye of the beholder?

Answer 2

I'm an artist too, and I envy guys like Kinkade who can do what they love all day and become rich from it. I personally hate his stuff, but, those of us, not educated about the world of art, see it from a different perspective than we do. Pretty, sappy, cutesy, traditional and boring, appeals to a wide variety of ordinary people. That population far outnumbers the esoteric and artistically knowledgeable among us. So money talks! What can I say? He lucked out with his hokey images! C'est la vie!

Answer 3

Its talent. A talent to market. His skills are not bad. His pallet sucks.His subjects are maudlin, hackneyed, emotionally exploitative, and calculated to be so. He found a place to make money. his gifts are obvious, and he is not the first or most despicable either. Erte', Dali, and Picasso all cinically exploited their gifts. They were just alot more talented and original to begin with. Norman Rockwell was an illustrator, with great skills and gifts. He was never Titian. And this guy is a corporation. Don't despise his luck. pity his audience.

Answer 4

Frida Kahlo rules!