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Edited on Thu Apr-28-05 08:36 PM by Rabrrrrrr
Funny thing - friend and I went to a mall the other day, a mall which happens to have a Kinkade gallery. I simply HAD to go in! She hates Kinkade as well.
So we're looking around, making fun of shit quietly to ourselves, enjoying the train wreckage aspect of it all, and we come across a seascape painting. Quite nice.
We ask the fundy chicky-poo working the store about it, and she said, and this is almost verbatim, "Oh, that's an old painting. Soon after Tom and Nanette were married, they traveled to that spot where Tom had done a bunch of painting before, and he repainted that coast line." (rabrrrrrr edit: it was somewhere in California). "Tom painted that one soon after he was saved, and before he discovered the painting with light method that he uses now. In the last year or two, Tom's been pulling these older paintings out and making reproductions of them, because he can't paint fast enough any more."
Yep, that's right, you caught it - the Kinkade store zombie workers are trained to refer to Kinkade and his wife by their first names. And apparently it's TOTALLY important to remind the "investor collectors" that Tom is saved. Also, it's apparently okay to say that Tom (who is saved!) is pulling out old paintings solely because he can't crank out enough merchandise fast enough. Not because he thinks that his older work has merit, or can now stand on its own, or that people were interested in his early career. Nope, it's because he can't make enough product, so he's pulling the old stuff out of the closet.
My friend and I both thought it hilarious that we both, separately, saw that painting and felt "Wow, that's actually pretty good" and that, of all the paintings there, the ONLY ONE THAT DIDN'T SUCK DONKEY-BALLS was the one that Tom (the recently saved Tom, recently married to Nanette) made before he sold out and started his painting with light bullshit.
Hilarious!!
Needless to say, THAT painting, which was artistically done and far more interesting and compelling than anything I've ever seen of Tom's (saved or unsaved), was less than a thousand bucks, framed. Cheaper than any of his current crap. And that was the best one!
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