Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Factoid of the day

The director of Fritz the cat , film maker Ralph Bakshi remembers the late Thomas Kincaid:


Thomas Kinkade was for me at his very young age already a brilliant painter. That's why, with no prior professional training, I gave him the job of painting backgrounds for my movie with Frank Frazetta, "Fire and Ice". He nailed it, which really was impossible for anyone else with no experience - but not for him. ..

As far as the art world, the CRITICAL ones shrugging Tom off, as they sell l shark in oil, and polka dots, in, 12, count them, 12 galleries at once in one opening -and all the other mindless hype... They miss the true brilliance that is Kinkade.

Kinkade painted the brilliant landscapes of the religious right... This is the most homespun vision of the distorted right, and nostalgia looking Americans reaching for purity without knowing what it really is - all through his landscapes. ITS BRILLIANT, and goes by every art critic and major museum in the world. I love it. And its just that that I made my movies about - the blind, pretentious and ugly. Tom Kinkade was a great, a good friend of mine and I will miss him. As an artist he nailed it - and that's rare.

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and no, I didn't like Kinkade's art, because I saw it as false nostalgia but his pictures were enjoyed by many, and I hope he will now find joy.

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