I am a Snob™ in many things. When my baby bro got engaged he bought a Thomas Kincaid Painter of Light™ painting for his fiancee that she loved loved loved. I am proud of keeping my cringe 100% internal.
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Replying to @MorlockP @mr_archenemy
I applaud your stoicism in keeping that cringe internal, even in the face of someone gushing over a painting by Mr. Of Light™
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Replying to @kendrictonn @mr_archenemy
I am offended by the fact that Mr Light™ used warehouses full of Trained Assistants to do 99% of the work and maybe - MAYBE - added a single haphazard brush stroke to each to make it "authentic".
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It's the lie here that offends me. I understand levels of rarity. I have two signed Michael Whelan artist's proofs - he painted picture X, photographer shot 10x with different f-stops, etc., each of those was printed, he picked one, signed each of the 10, I own one. A photo.
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NOT the original. /shrug it is what it is, I know what it is, and I am happy w it. Just as I own a signed / numbered Mobius print. Not the original. It is what it is, and I know what it is. Honest transactions. Repeating: It's the lie that offends.
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Replying to @MorlockP @mr_archenemy
Assistant work is such an odd thing. Reubens did it too, but I don't find it distasteful in the same way. Maybe it's just that he maintained a quality of output, and didn't do the shady Kinkaid things you're describing
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Replying to @kendrictonn @mr_archenemy
I think Rubens is different because technology was different. Using assistants to paint filled the same role that high quality glicee / etc prints do today. Ornamentation for middle class homes, NOT claiming to be originals. Kincaid COULD have >>>
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offered paper prints at $200, glicee at $1k, "personally overseen assistants" at $2k, and originals at $10k, if he wanted that's honest and transparent
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Replying to @MorlockP @mr_archenemy
Thinking about it, there's also a different set of assumptions. The Kincaid Business Model was purposefully playing on a modern idea of "Oh, here's an original object touched by the hand of the Inspired Artist", and like you say, doing it in an (at best) shady way/
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Reubens, often enough, just isn't doing that Romantic Artist thing. Not always, but I suspect the closer equivalent to someone saying "Oh yes, I had Reubens paint that" is saying, I don't know, "yes, that's a Patek Phillippe I just dropped in the pool, but whatever, idc."
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we're in agreement
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