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Thomas Kinkade’s Life Was Nothing Like His Idealized Paintings. A New Documentary Looks at His Multimillion-Dollar Success and Dark Downfall
Thomas Kinkade was the most successful artist of his time. His sentimental, sanitized landscapes full of Christian motifs and ...
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You've probably seen his glowing paintings on TV. But look closely and his dark, twisted secret emerges
Thomas Kinkade was ... adolescent in Placerville, Kinkade was already joking about finding ‘fame and fortune.’ When he and Nanette made $40,000 selling his prints outside a Placerville store ...
‘Art for Everybody’ Review: An Illuminating Look at an American Painter Far Darker Than His ‘Art’ Let On
Thomas Kinkade's popular oeuvre reflected only a fraction of his identity, as revealed in Miranda Yousef's well-researched film 'Art for Everybody.' ...
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Did Thomas Kinkade secretly make good art? A new film investigates
“Thomas Kinkade was a performance artist,” she says, calling his pious Christian persona and multimillion-dollar empire of prints and souvenirs of all kinds “perhaps the greatest performance ...
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Thomas Kinkade’s Life Was Nothing Like His Idealized Paintings. A New Documentary Looks at His Multimillion-Dollar Success and Dark Downfall
In the 1990s, Thomas Kinkade was ... tiny LEDs embedded in the canvas, were so popular that, at one point, it was estimated that one in 20 American houses owned Kinkade artwork via a painting ...