"This is God-given talent," she said of a favored print, "Sierra Evening Majesty," with its snowy peaks, red-gold skies and smoke wisping from a cabin chimney. "He is a modern-day Leonardo da Vinci or Monet. There is no one in our generation who can paint like that."
OH MY GOD!!!
I'm going to send her a couple of image of my work and tell her to stuff her Kinkade's up her ass.
This man is the bane of every serious artist's existance. And the sad thing is, because many people value them, they will hold on to them and pass them along to their children. Eventually the work will take on true worth simply because it is old and more rare than it had been. It will take on ...shudder...legitimacy.
On Edit: see this woman's web page... Wow!
http://members.aol.com/karendelac/