Last evening (Thursday)

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I'd finished my laundry and had eaten my dinner. I was reading a book but suddenly decided I wanted to get out of the house and get some exercise. Being that it was dark and raining I decided to go to the mall to walk and browse. As I was walking by an art/framing store I noticed an appallingly familiar style to one of the pieces they had in the right side display window. As I paused to look I noticed that everything in that window was by the same artist. Large paintings, medium paintings, some small prints and behind them an entire rack of miniature prints.

THOMAS KINKADE. :puke: :scared: :yoiks:

I couldn't help but shudder as I began walking away very quickly.

[Robeson]

1. OMG! I knew as I was reading your story, that we were going to be...

...left with the HORROR of Thomas Kinkade... :scared: :scared:

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2. Every time I see one of his "works"

It's as if somebody barfed on a canvas and fashioned it into some Republican's wet dream.

[Robeson]

3. I'll tell you a true story....

...a guy I used to work with, had just bought a new house. A real nice house. He always told us about how much he loved art, and how he furnished his house with beautiful art. He was really excited about it, and wanted to show his new house off to the co-workers, and to show the art collection he and his wife had built up all their lives. Long story short, it was a nice expensive home, decorated with hundreds of Thomas Kinkade prints...:crazy:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

5. My mom once decided a Thomas Kinkade wallpaper border would be

aesthetically pleasing in the basement.

Fortunately, she sold that house. The current basement is decorated with sports pictures and neon beer signs. A fast improvement.

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7. Eeewwww

To call TK "art" is to defile the term completely.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

4. OMG! I know someone else who had that happen to them.

He needed some prints to decorate the set of a show he was directing. This was so not his job as director, but he's the world largest control freak, so he took it upon himself. Anyway, he went into the local "art" store in town and he said he was there for about five minutes before realizing he walked into the Thomas Kinkade store. He claimed he screamed and declared the store a purveyor of American stupidity and left.

After working with the guy on and off for two years, and taking a course taught by him, I can honestly say, he most likely did scream and declare the store a purveyor of American stupidty, before he left.

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6. How did that freak become so popular?

It's obscene really. It's not art by any means, it's a candied version of the fantasies idiots have when dreaming of "the good old days" that never existed.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

8. People are idiots and real art might make them think.

Thinking hurts. One of the best compliments I ever got was being told a piece I did for school, offended a few people, who complained. They felt it shouldn't have been displayed during a time of crisis in our nation (this was about a month after 9-11). I was totally proud of that.

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9. People are so sensitive sometimes

They freaked over an ad in the Starbucks near the former WTC that depicted two different frozen drinks side by side, one slightly higher than the other. They claimed it was "disprespectful to those who lost loved ones on 9/11". It was a nationwide ad that happened to have the caption "Collapse into Coolness".

What was your piece BTW?

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

11. That's dumb.

I'm really sensitive about 9-11, because I know a couple people who died into it. Freaking out over a Starbucks ad is absurd.

This is the piece. It was originally a set of three, but one of my bunnies ate the other two, therefore I don't have a picture of it.

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12. Wow

What's funny is that they were whining not about it being "obscene" but offensive in light of 9/11. People are strange.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

13. For once, penises were not offending them.

:rofl:

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14. It's a mighty distraction

that can keep people from being offended by young children riding giant penises. :rofl:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

15. Well, my penis art probably was shown up by the professor's.

She took a clock, inlaid Jesus being crucified in it, turned the hour hand into a giant penis, and had "Jesus is Coming!" written around his head.

I seriously wanted to buy the thing, but it was hundreds of dollars.

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16. OMFSM!

That's anti-Christian persecution!!! :rofl:

[Robeson]

10. That is a good compliment...

...you forced them to think. That's what art is supposed to do...:thumbsup: