- Ivan: LARISA!
- Ivan: I found this behind your cupboard!
- Larisa: Ivan, please. It’s not what it looks like.
- Ivan: It’s exactly what it looks like!
- Ivan: If I ever catch you again with a Thomas Kinkade print, I’ll take away all your brushes!
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[0484] Larisa’s Dirty Secret
└ posted on Thursday, 23 May 2013, by Novil
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@ TheBig1:
TheBig1 wrote:
“not very “artistic”, kind of “low quality art”. ” Like mass-produced bust of the Pope in mass-produced bottle full of mass-produced urine is “high art”?
Kinkade produced what I call dreamscape art reminicent of Currier and Ives & Maxfield Parrish in an idealistic style.
It was popular enough to sell, so mass-production is not an insult except to blue-blooded elite.
Yeah, pretty true. I remember when I was taking art classes my teacher HATED Kinkade. Oh she tried to seem objective about it, while showing us selections and breaking them down to show why they were bad, but I’m pretty sure she just hated Kinkade.
I think this is just spawned out of jealously. Using the same objective techniques she taught us I examined many other samples and found no flaws that she talked about.
Disney Dreams by Thomas Kinkade must be the lowest of low than…
Larisa don’t go there …
Kinkade’s art is not bad. Actually some of it is really very good. The ‘problem’ if you wish to call it that is it’s very commercial. The type of stuff designed to appeal to ‘everyone’ and to sell. Something our avant garde Ivan would find unacceptable.
@ Noize:
And Bingo! you’ve summed up why one Kinkade on the wall could be cheery, but a whole house full sends me screaming.
If there was tremendous variety in the works, it could be interesting. But instead you get the slightly deformed rubber stamp effect with different colors in the mix. And it therefore, quickly becomes trite and needs a hefty amount of parody to help break up the monotony.
Larisa, please – there are enough Kinkade prints out there!
(My wife used to work in the same building he was in in Downtown San Jose. I also worked in that building, but after Kinkade left.)
Stick to what you’re good at, I like ti more. Fire is very purifying, you know…
Harsh, taking away her brushes.
I would have expected him to make her paint Fuseli or Giger for each print he found.
Funny, Thomas Kinkade also came up in a recent Least I Could Do strip. Someone was improving them by adding klingon battle cruisers. Maybe Larisa was planning something similar.
Is it weird that the ad banner above the comic is for Thomas Kinkade?
@ Nigel:
Not really, that’s how targtted ads work.
@ C. W. Roden:
and I thought it was going to be a picture of sandra
@ C. W. Roden:
I am a pure neutralist. I rate up the comments that are rated down, and rate down the comments that are rated up.
Narrator:
Oddly enough, two week prior, Ivan had found Larisa’s stash of bizarre porn, but was cool with it.
@ prime_pm:
Rousseau was a revolutionary artist and philosopher of the Renaissance era. He was an advocate of democratic systems of government and was also a person that advocated environmentalist dispositions such as having humanity observe a respect for nature, and also was a major component of the major movement during his time. Look up his name and give the guy a little respect for what he did for humanity.
But don’t go too overboard with the “everybody is made a good-guy” ideal. There is plenty of scientific evidence to reveal that this, and its complete opposite, are both false.
Take caution when reading about him. Stuff like Wikipedia tend to have plenty of misinformation.
Generic or not, at least they’re nice looking pictures. I’ll take them over some of the crap being sold as “art” these days – like some of the things they saw at the art museum recently. (Except the air conditioner. I’ll take one of them over pretty pictures any day :P)
@ IcyT:
As well you should.
@ Greenwood Goat:
“Night of the Living Dead meets Day of the Triffids” I’d pay good money to see that! GOOD money.
@ Far:
I’m anything but blue blooded but Kinkade is a hack. To call his stuff “art” is an insult to real artists. Any art student could paint that crap. But like my dad used to say “There is no accounting for taste” and some people’s taste is all in their mouths.
@ mechwarrior:
Nailed it.