tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post5556239634184126234..comments2023-06-13T08:29:39.914+00:00Comments on MAKING A MARK: 8th April 2012 - Who's made a mark this week?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-29911278386501268372012-04-10T10:31:46.269+00:002012-04-10T10:31:46.269+00:00Tina - Good point about the Kinkade artwork and I&...Tina - Good point about the Kinkade artwork and I've amended the first sentenceMaking A Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13509483023337008890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-63895805854006144412012-04-10T10:29:40.502+00:002012-04-10T10:29:40.502+00:00I'm anticipating that the next big flat screen...I'm anticipating that the next big flat screen is going to be one for digital art!Making A Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13509483023337008890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-20159702967006024192012-04-10T09:45:13.365+00:002012-04-10T09:45:13.365+00:00Yes, thank you for a nice but honest tribute to Ki...Yes, thank you for a nice but honest tribute to Kinkade. I'm sad about his death but not his art. (and I think you'll probably find 1 in 20 homes have a print, or embellished print, and not a painting) He was an interesting businessman who combined art and business the way few would, not that it wasn't fraught with difficulties nor that he did it honestly. But an artist passing is sad, and who knows what more he could have added to the idea of what "art business" is?<br /><br />Had to laugh at the death of printing. I'm not quite sure how people having a different kind of computer somehow changes how many walls they might have to decorate in their house? ;) (saying that, I do offer tablet art!) I'm an assistant for another artist who does illustrative prints and we've noticed that a lot of the people buying the iPad/iPhone image packs come back and order giclee prints. So perhaps embrace both and use it as a bit of a temptation!Tina Mammoserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18407199513409994699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-57715992927768824202012-04-10T02:59:30.525+00:002012-04-10T02:59:30.525+00:00Your obit on Kinkade is the kindest I've read....Your obit on Kinkade is the kindest I've read. Very well done. We were contemporaries; I was born in 1958, too. I figured out this year why sentimentality in painting is not to my taste. It plays more towards your audience, and doesn't portray your own ideas. That is antithetic to what we want in our art: creative vision.<br /><br />TK was a talented man, and I wish his family, collectors and employees well. We have all been off put by over-zealous marketing behavior, such as that done by Andy Warhol, and perhaps the keenly ambitious Picasso. Michelangelo had the Pope to promote his work; Kinkade had himself.<br /><br />He wrote a very nice book about his tour of Europe and his father's battlefields. It has plein air work that is very fine. That Gurney-Kinkade book may be a collector's edition, soon. Gurney's reports from China are wonderful, too.Casey Klahnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08020906666248399435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-57507256871377568832012-04-09T14:51:13.491+00:002012-04-09T14:51:13.491+00:00Thanks for that Michael. I'd actually seen it...Thanks for that Michael. I'd actually seen it some years back and agreed with you about it. However I searched high and low for any reference to the paintings I had seen - without finding any.Making A Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13509483023337008890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-60109420995444430532012-04-09T13:37:37.335+00:002012-04-09T13:37:37.335+00:00Kinkade's plein air work was actually very goo...Kinkade's plein air work was actually very good and quite different from his more popular cottage paintings. A few years ago, he and Stephen Doherty, a former editor of American Artist, published a book of his plein air work: The Artist in Nature.<br /><br />http://www.amazon.com/The-Artist-Nature-Kinkade-Tradition/dp/0823003450Michael Chesley Johnson, Artist / Writerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17003530955203751138noreply@blogger.com