Kinkade went on to paint more than 1, works of art during his lifetime and industriously created limited editions of his paintings. He has been featured in more than books, writing and publishing several of his own. In , Kinkade became a born-again Christian and attributed God as a source of inspiration for his work. Kinkade emphasized the simple pleasures of life in his artwork, which included devotion to his family. Due to his immense success, Kinkade became a popular artist who was sought after for many important commissions.
The first time was in and the second in for the annual Pageant of Peace. Thomas Kinkade at a gallery event Photo courtesy of Art Brand. Two years prior, the California Tourism Hall of Fame inducted Kinkade for his efforts to highlight the beauty of his home state.
To this end, Kinkade succeeded. His artwork is still enjoyed and collected to this day for its aesthetic beauty and hopeful message. For information on how to collect the art of Thomas Kinkade , contact our gallery consultants at ext.
Thomas Kinkade is my favorite artist. I have collected many of his pieces of art and have even gifted a few to my daughters. He is no longer with us in body but his spirit will live forever in the beauty of his artwork.
My first art purchase was a TK. Since then I have acquired three additional pieces. Thomas Kinkade stayed at my small hotel in the Cotswolds about three months before his tragic death. He was a fascinating guy to talk with and was inspiring to watch him sketch Cotswold cottages. Such a loss to the art world, but he is at peace. Please tell me the name and location of your hotel Ian. Thomas has become one of my favorite i spend a lot of time just looking in to the beautiful works of art we have 4 of his works.
I have 2 of Thomas Kinkades work of art and I will continue to seek them out to purchase. What a wonderful testimony to his faith and his family in his work. I always look forward to going on cruises to the art auctions. Kinkades precious art. I have many Thomas Kinkade paintings. Most of them have been master highlighted and signed.
Is your gallery interested in purchases? Hello Meredith! Clients would be ushered into a climate-controlled viewing room to maximise the Kinkadeness of the whole place, and their experience. Some galleries offered "master highlighters", trained by someone not far from the master himself, to add a hand-crafted splash of paint to the desired print and so make a truly unique piece of art, as opposed to the framed photographic print that was the standard fare.
The artistic credo was expressed best in the movie Thomas Kinkade's Christmas Cottage. Peter O'Toole, earning a crust playing Kinkade's artistic mentor, urges the young painter to "Paint the light, Thomas!
Paint the light! Kinkade's art also went beyond galleries through the "Thomas Kinkade lifestyle brand". This wasn't just the usual art gallery giftshop schlock: Kinkade sealed a tie-in with La-Z-Boy furniture home of the big butt recliner for a Kinkade-inspired range of furniture. But arguably his only great artwork was " The Village, a Thomas Kinkade Community ", unveiled in A home development in Vallejo, outside San Francisco, operating under the slogan: "Calm, not chaos.
Peace, not pressure," the village offers four house designs, each named after one of Kinkade's daughters. Plans for further housing developments, alas, fell foul of the housing crisis. Thomas Kinkade sketched and painted innumerable portraits throughout his artistic career. In his earlier years, Thomas Kinkade experimented under the brush name Robert Girrard in order to have absolute artistic freedom.
During his experimentation period, he employed the styles and techniques of the French Impressionist movement — both subject matter and brushstroke. His use and play with Luminism became more defined.
His subject matter would often utilize sources of light to suggest the presence of people but without the actual figures present in the painting. This technique diffused the focus from a defined human figure and allowed those who viewed his work to place themselves in the tableau. The artist was often quoted as saying that his art was meant to uplift and inspire. With these goals as his mission, the Thomas Kinkade style and use of light for which he is most known, is often described as idyllic, serene and uplifting.
Even with such wide-ranging variables as brush techniques and media substrate — watercolors were also an endeavor that Thomas Kinkade mastered. He took advantage of quick drying times to capture outdoor light in French landmarks and Italian countryside scenes, and in simple bouquets of flowers.
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