Location
Panel 27: Kearney 308
Start Date
27-10-2012 3:00 PM
End Date
27-10-2012 4:30 PM
Description
Using a PowerPoint format, I will present and analyze some representative paintings by the late hack evangelical artist Thomas Kinkade, who painted fanciful images of snow-covered cottages and other bucolic scenes that were meant to transport viewers to a kind of Christian Neverland on earth. I'll examine motifs, themes, iconography etc. while arguing that Kinkade's work amounts to escapist wish-fulfillment fantasies of refuge from a heartless modern world.
Additional Files
Fascist Kitsch: Reprising the 'Art' of Thomas Kinkade
Panel 27: Kearney 308
Using a PowerPoint format, I will present and analyze some representative paintings by the late hack evangelical artist Thomas Kinkade, who painted fanciful images of snow-covered cottages and other bucolic scenes that were meant to transport viewers to a kind of Christian Neverland on earth. I'll examine motifs, themes, iconography etc. while arguing that Kinkade's work amounts to escapist wish-fulfillment fantasies of refuge from a heartless modern world.