Kinkade's paintings are worthless schmaltz and the lamestream media that love him are wrong. However I'd love to see a museum mount a small show of Kinkade's work. I would like the art world and the wider world to argue about him in public out in the open.
The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none – not one – of his ideas about subject-matter surface color composition touch scale form or skill is remotely original. They're all cliche and already told.
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Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them.
