Thomas Kinkade

I think all of this is coming to him because for some reason people like to start looking at people in a different way when they start getting to a point of extreme success. People start looking at a very successful person like they’re greedy, and don’t need to make that much money. Basically I think people are jealous. I know I’d like to make to make $100 million a year, but then again I don’t think you could really help but be high maintenance when you’re making that much money. So maybe I wouldn’t want to make that much after all! Obviously Thomas Kinkade didn’t start off as a “money making machine”, he was once an artist that painted because he loved to paint; in the beginning making no money just like every artist starts. He became successful and started making this money; I don’t think that takes the artist out of him. I do disagree with the fact that Kinkade hires other artists to apply paint to “prints” of his paintings that are made so they mimic his style. But, at the same time; I’m sure that there is a popular demand for Kinkade’s paintings, and surely he couldn’t produce paintings at the same rate that people are buying them. I do think there are other ways though, I don’t know what they are; but surely you have to expect to get pinned as a sell out when you’re doing this. He should just sale paintings that he actually paints, but this would make the price go way up; and he wouldn’t be making as much money. This goes to show that maybe somewhere along the line it may have become about the money rather than about the art. I read the information on the website provided about the FBI investigation, I don’t really know how to feel about it. I can’t decide if I think Kinkade and his company is actually pulling something or not. I would never spend that much money on a painting anyway, so it doesn’t matter to me. It’s funny how I started this blog entry defending Kinkade, and now that I get deeper into it I’m thinking that he is a sell out. I agree with the fact that if you keep producing the same exact style of art over and over again, well then something is going on! He must not be getting out to much to be inspired by new things, because they all look the same. So in the end I think I’m going to have to side with the people who think Thomas Kinkade is a “schrewd capitalist who has mastered the ‘art’ of money making”.