Those who love him love that he sells the most art they take it as a point of faith that this proves Kinkade is the best. But his fans don't only rely on this supply-and-demand justification. They go back to values.
Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included.
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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.
