I love this: BoingBoing reports that a Seattle art gallery will feature “tributes” of two well known contemporary “artists” – Thomas Kinkad and Jack T. Chick.
BB is calling it the “Painters of Blight” show…
As you probably know, Thomas Kinkade, the famous “Painter of Light,” has made millions of dollars with his customized prints of day-glo cottages against backdrops of enchanted forests. He has a team of “Kinkade-trained Master Highlighters” who go over reproductions of his work with oil paint.
Yes! His work is mass-produced crap! He’s the Norman Rockwell of heartwarming, uplifting, mind-blinkered post- 9/11 Americana! He’s also one of those annoying people that’s constantly dropping God’s name into every sentence! Excellent target, dear artists. Drop the big one now!
Now, on to their next target, Jack T. Chick – this one is dear to my heart, also:
And Jack T. Chick is the famous artist-publisher of a series of incendiary 3″ x 5″, 24-page religious comic book tracts. Loaded with scare tactics and jabs at “enemies” of Christianity, Chick’s comics vividly depict the horrors of Hell for anyone who neglects to convert to Christianity. Since 1961 Chick has created 175 proselytizing tracts, which have had more than 500,000,000 copies published in over 100 languages worldwide.
Faboo! Though I have one minor correction: that’s “500,000,000 discarded, unwanted, unread and culturally offensive copies clogging landfills in over 100 linguistic areas worldwide.”
