The Hudson River School has been recognized as a precedent for Kinkade's idyllic, sentimental scenes. It gives it kind of a patriotic excitement. I began thinking, 'I want to get this energy - what I call the excitement of the moment - into this painting.' As I began working on it, I thought, 'Well you have this big piece of asphalt, the huge spectator stands I've got to do something to get some movement.' So I just started throwing flags into it. But I saw the stadium, how the track laid out, the horizon, the skyline of Indianapolis and the Pagoda. I came out here and stood up on the bleachers and looked around, and I saw all the elements of the track. The passion I have is to capture memories, to evoke the emotional connection we have to an experience. Concerning the Indianapolis Motor Speedway painting, Kinkade said: He also painted the farewell portrait for Yankee Stadium. In 2009, he painted a portrait of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the cover of that year's Indianapolis 500 race program that included details of the crowd, hiding among them the figures of Norman Rockwell and Dale Earnhardt. Many pictures include specific chapter-and-verse allusions to Bible passages. A self-described "devout Christian" (even giving all four of his children the middle name "Christian" ), Kinkade believed he gained his inspiration from his religious beliefs and that his work was intended to include a moral dimension. Kinkade said he was emphasizing the value of simple pleasures and that his intent was to communicate inspirational messages through his paintings. His country scenes rarely depict people, a point that he frequently received questions about. He also depicted various Christian themes, including the Christian cross and churches. His hometown of Placerville (where his works are much displayed) was the inspiration for many of his street and snow scenes. Rendered with idealistic values of American scene painting, his works often portray bucolic and idyllic settings, such as gardens, streams, stone cottages, lighthouses and Main Streets. Recurring features of Kinkade's paintings are their pastel colors and brilliant illumination of the scene. Artistic themes and style Kinkade's cottage and garden scenes drew inspiration from the Cotswolds region of England. Īfter the movie, Kinkade worked as a painter, selling his originals in galleries throughout California. While working on the movie, Kinkade began to explore the depiction of light and of imagined worlds. The success of the book resulted in both working for Ralph Bakshi Studios where they created background art for the 1983 animated feature movie Fire and Ice. Two years later they produced a book, The Artist's Guide to Sketching, which was one of Guptill Publications' best-sellers that year. The two of them finished their journey in New York and secured a contract with Guptill Publications to produce a sketching handbook. Career ĭuring June 1980, Kinkade spent a summer traveling across the United States with his college friend James Gurney. After two years of general education at Berkeley, Kinkade transferred to the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Kinkade's relationship with Wessels is the subject of a semi-autobiographical movie released during 2008, Christmas Cottage. Wessels encouraged Kinkade to go to the University of California at Berkeley. Some of the people who mentored and taught Kinkade prior to college were Charles Bell and Glenn Wessels. He grew up in the town of Placerville, graduated from El Dorado High School in 1976, and attended the University of California, Berkeley, and Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. William Thomas Kinkade was born on January 19, 1958, in Sacramento County, California. Kinkade died of "acute intoxication" from alcohol and the drug diazepam at the age of 54. Kinkade was criticized for some of his behavior and business practices art critics faulted his work for being " kitsch". Kinkade described himself as a "Painter of Light", a phrase he protected by trademark, but which was earlier used to describe the English artist J. According to Kinkade's company, one in every twenty American homes owned a copy of one of his paintings. He is notable for achieving success during his lifetime with the mass marketing of his work as printed reproductions and other licensed products by means of the Thomas Kinkade Company. William Thomas Kinkade III (January 19, 1958 – April 6, 2012) was an American painter of popular realistic, pastoral, and idyllic subjects.
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