Beloved by many, despised by others, Thomas Kinkade's quaint rustic scenes and his wholesome image belied a dark and tortured ...

He makes art critics cringe, but Thomas Kinkade — whose idyllic paintings ... In theory, one could argue that Walt Disney, Charles Schulz or Margaret “Big Eyes” Keane is more deserving ...

“Thomas Kinkade had a quite outsize cultural ... start out as an aspirational Norman Rockwell-Walt Disney hybrid. “I want to avoid painting silly and sweet pictures, charming pictures, happy ...

You may think you know the whole story of kitsch master Thomas ... Kinkade said, adding that “Warhol’s dream was that he would become a robot who just could push a button and his paintings ...

He carried a few extra pounds and sported a goatee as he spoke with fatherly instruction during art lessons from stages and TV screens. Thomas Kinkade was a popular art sensation the likes of ...

Art for Everybody” is a smart, buzzy film. But its effort to reframe a savvy peddler of kitsch is all too familiar.

If you think you’ve never seen a painting by Thomas Kinkade, think again. The late artist, who is said to have sold more canvases than any painter in history, created a cottage industry (pun ...

You could deck your whole life out in Thomas Kinkade. Kinkade, who turned out these original images and called himself the “Painter of Light,” is the subject of the new documentary “Art for ...

"It is schmaltzy pastiches of Disney-style woodland scenes ... whereas you see in the movie an MBNA bank card with a Thomas Kinkade painting on it. He was already doing it 20 or 30 years ago." ...

It’s good that the Thomas Kinkade phenomenon — his empire of art galleries in shopping malls ... Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney, both of whom were infinitely more nuanced and interesting ...