"Candlelight Cottage, Twilight Cottage, Cottage by the Sea, Sweetheart Cottage, Foxglove Cottage, and Teacup Cottage...If you like six sugars in your coffee, these are the paintings for you."posted by ericb at 9:13 AM on November 18, 2008
Consumers are more than twice as attached to the Thomas Kinkade brand than to household names such as Martha Stewart, Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren!*I also had a college art history class where the professor spent a class deriding the Thomas Kinkade franchise, going through a whole set of images and shouting "Covered bridge - cliche! Cozy cottage - cliche! Picturesque lighthouse - cliche!" as he flipped through the slides. (It was an early Friday class, and the attendance wasn't too high - he wasn't using critical time to share his annoyance at the mass-produced cliche style of the man).
*2005 study by Marketing Evaluations, Inc
Kubrick scoured the world looking for exotic, ultra-fast lenses, because he knew he would be shooting extremely low light level scenes. It was his objective, incredible as it seemed at the time, to photograph candle-lit scenes in old English castles by only the light of the candles themselves! A former still photographer for Look magazine, Kubrick has become extremely knowledgeable with regard to lenses and, in fact, has taught himself every phase of the technical application of his filming equipment. He called one day to ask me if I thought I could fit a Zeiss lens he had procured, which had a focal length of 50mm and a maximum aperture of f/O.7. He sent me the dimensional specifications, and I reported that it was impossible to fit the lens to his BNC because of its large diameter and also because the rear element came within 4mm of the film plane. Stanley, being the meticulous craftsman that he is, would not take 'No" for an answer and persisted until I reluctantly agreed to take a hard look at the problem.posted by geoff. at 9:25 AM on November 18, 2008 [21 favorites]
From the caption:The Zeiss 50mm and 36.5mm, f/0.7 lenses used to film candlelight sequences for "Barry Lyndon" without the addition of artificial light were originally still-camera lenses developed for use by NASA in the Apollo Moon-landing program, and modified by Cinema Products Corp. The 50mm lens, shown here in focusing mount, had to have the adjustable shutter blade, necessary for still photography, removed for filming.
You mentored Ren and Stimpy's John Kricfalusi. But we can never forgive you for giving Thomas Kinkade his big break.
That son of a bitch! Kinkade was the coolest. If Kinkade wasn't a painter, he'd be one of those cult leaders. Kinkade came into my office with James Gurney when I was looking for background artists [for Fire and Ice]. He's a good painter, and he did a spiel. He made all these deals. How he went out and did what he did is beyond my understanding now. He's very, very talented, and he’s very, very much of a hustler. Those two things are in conflict. Is he talented? Oh yeah. Will he paint anything to make money? Oh yeah. Does he have any sort of moralistic view? No. He doesn't care about anything. He's as cheesy as they come.
"The New York artist Mark Kostabi has one team thinking up ideas and another team turning them into works (which he then signs). He even has a game show for panellists to title them. So where does he fit in?"Warhol would also praise Yue Minjun who "...doesn't paint the artworks sold under his name. Instead, a bevy of assistants do the painting for him" and the commercial success of China's Assembly Line Art.
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