Archive for November 2008
The Painter of Paint
I was reading the Wikipedia article on Thomas Kinkade a couple days ago and it had an excerpt from a curator talking about the possibility that Kinkade’s self-promotion is actually his conceptual performance art.
Kinkade’s genius is in his capacity to identify and fulfill the needs and desires of his target audience — he cites his mother as a key influence and archetypal audience — and to couple this with savvy marketing… If Kinkade’s art is principally about ideas, and I think it is, it could be suggested that he is a Conceptual artist. All he would have to do to solidify this position would be to make an announcement that the beliefs he has expounded are just Duchampian posturing to achieve his successes. But this will never happen. Kinkade earnestly believes in his faith in God and his personal agenda as an artist.
If it is true, then I would have to say that daytona500print.com would be his Mona Lisa.
(Be sure to watch the video of Thom’s thoughts behind NASCAR® THUNDER, The 50th Running of the DAYTONA 500® on daytona500print.com)
