Thomas Kincade Dead (finally)

[CTyankee]

75. I thought his stuff was lousy. But some artists we love today were once considered trashy

by their contemporaries. And even great artists could be considered assholes, judging by the way they treated others in their lives. Caravaggio killed a man. In a fit of jealousy, Bernini had his servant slash his lover's face (and she was the wife of his assistant!). And there were plenty of alcoholics among their ranks. Jackson Pollack comes to mind, and he drunkenly drove his car into a wall, killing himself and another passenger. As a friar in charge of a convent, Fra Filippo Lippi seduced and impregnated a young noviate who was his model for the Madonnas he was painting.

I won't go on but you get my drift.

I certainly can't see a way that Kinkade's works could be in any respect considered art, but I didn't know/care much about him.