Kinkade, the self-professed "painter of light", is known to be a rather boorish businessperson, to put it politely. I have long been uncomfortable, however, looking at the hackneyed Hallmark "art" he produces, but I could never understand why. Could it be that Thomas Kinkade, aka painter of light aka Lucifer, the light-bearer, be the source of all evil, and that evil be reflected in his paintings?
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I'm sure many readers here are fans of Thomas Kinkade — how could we not love a hack who used his pious Christianity to woo franchises into paying him buckets of money to sell his kitsch?
That's all I want to know.
If you're a fan of kitsch and Christianity, don't read
this article. You'll think it starts out OK…
Thomas Kinkade, painter of pablum and our nation's most collected living artist, died on Good Friday. Hmmmm.
...and here is the perfect link from this post.
He uses the word "pre-lapsarian"! I love it.