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⌈ Secret Post #3203 ⌋

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Comments

Question thread!

[(Anonymous)]

If you're confused about a thing, ask it here! Maybe someone on f!s can help you.

Re: Question thread!

[(Anonymous)]

Why do art people hate Thomas Kinkade? Sure, his work is saccharine and overly sentimental but I think it's meant to be? Plus, the dude made major bank.

So why is he so hated in the art world?

Re: Question thread!

[(Anonymous)]

Pretty sure it's from oversaturation. His work became too commercial, so artists, being the inherent hipsters they are, got tired of it.

Re: Question thread!

[dreemyweird]

I'm an amateur artist but I had no idea who Kinkade was. Googled him, and his works look like the pinnacle of tastelessness? So my guess'd be that people hate him for getting a shitton of cash from his exceptionally bad art.

Like, the problem isn't that it's sentimental. It's just technically bad. He has no idea how colours work.

Re: Question thread!

[nanslice]

Kinkade is probably the epitome of kitsch and a lot of artists hate that. He found his niche, found his audience, and created work for them. Personally, I don't have a problem with the dude's work (his colors are a little overly saturated for my tastes but w/e w/e) and his grasp on lighting is pretty great.

I should explain, his ability to make light look like LIGHT is pretty great; his light sourcing, haha, that's a different story.

Re: Question thread!

[(Anonymous)]

I don't even understand its reputation for being saccharine. I'd just call it generic.

Re: Question thread!

[feotakahari]

My mother thinks his art is scary. Everything's lit up way more than it needs to be, like he's terrified of allowing any darkness in.

Re: Question thread!

[fishnchips]

Oh damn, I think someone gave me a puzzle of one of his pictures when I was younger.

Re: Question thread!

[(Anonymous)]

I'm an art student and Kinkade mostly looks very commercial, which artists generally don't like cause it doesn't strive for anything besides making bank. Its not personal or pushing the artists skills its just kind of... there.

Re: Question thread!

[(Anonymous)]

I just looked him up and ugh, it's work that's actively tailored for people's uninspired fantasies of the imaginary ideal past. It looks so fucking fake to me, I can't imagine putting that on my wall and sighing happily at how much money I paid for it.

Buuuuuut if that's what gets you off, fine, whatever.

Re: Question thread!

[diet_poison]

I like Thomas Kinkade. Sorry (but not really).

I wouldn't hang them on my wall (that would make my apartment feel like a hotel), but his paintings make fabulous jigsaw puzzles and sometimes they're nice to just look at wistfully.

Re: Question thread!

[(Anonymous)]

Doesn't do anything interesting, is extremely schmaltzy, is popular.

Re: Question thread!

[ketita]

I don't mind him, personally. Yeah, it's not amazing artistically, but they're kind of pretty, I think.
Besides, if you're talking about things that are painfully generic, I find the common computer art style that's often used for game and MMO art, and a lot of fanart, to be far more painfully generic and commercial.

Re: Question thread!

[a_potato]

I am not an artist and have no connection to the art world. However, I personally dislike Thomas Kinkade because something about his paintings makes me feel like I'm being forced to swallow packets of sugar.

Also, my mother fell in love with his work when I was in middle school, so I spent a good chunk of my adolescence surrounded by and drowned in it, and I'm sure that hasn't helped.

Re: Question thread!

[(Anonymous)]

I don't hate him. But there's not exactly anything innovative or cool about his works that make me like it.

Re: Question thread!

[cbrachyrhynchos]

1. Kitsch without being ironic about it.
2. Mass production of stuff that gets stamped with the Kinkade name.
3. He's not that good in terms of either technique or composition.
4. Shady business practices including undermining his own retail studios.

Re: Question thread!

[(Anonymous)]

he's not very good. he had technical skills, but they weren't very well executed. it's the kind of art non-art people think is good because there's lots of stuff in it.

Re: Question thread!

[dreemyweird]

Is Until Dawn considered a good horror game or, like, cheese? I'm halfway through it and it's very entertaining and the graphics are cool, but some tropes are so tired. And is that a rip-off of The Saw franchise? :D

Re: Question thread!

[(Anonymous)]

Is it possible for there to have been earth before earth?

I don't mean in a "we're all secretly aliens" way, but rather, is there any scientific indication that earth's existence could be cyclical?

Re: Question thread!

[(Anonymous)]

First, promise I'm not trying to start wank, just trying to understand. This is, after all, a question thread.

I recently read that white writers shouldn't write POC characters because "there's too few being written by POCs." The problem is, if writers don't, there's not enough representation. Plus, let's be honest, it's unrealistic unless you're writing about Medieval Scotland or something. Can someone explain the reasoning? I'm sure there's something I'm missing.

Re: Question thread!

[(Anonymous)]

Last night I had a bunch of disturbing dreams involving my brother. First, we were in a relationship, then we broke up, then we were just hanging out and the previous relationship stuff didn't exist, then suddenly we were in a relationship again, then we were just having sex but not in a relationship, then we fought about something and then we were having sex again. I'd wake up after one of them, be really freaked out, then go back to sleep and proceed to go right into another one. That happened ALL NIGHT LONG.

Aside from the obvious WTF-ness of it being my brother, I'm not even into GUYS. Also, he's a total asshole that I try to spend as little time with as possible, and probably one of my least favorite people on the planet. If I'm going to dream about sexy times with a dude why couldn't it at least be someone I don't hate?

Anyone that knows anything about dreams, WHAT DOES THIS MEAN??

What to do for pain

[philstar22]

So I'm still in a lot of pain. It is actually worse today. The ibuprofin I've been taking is doing nothing. I actually ended up taking a vicodin which I have prescribed for migraines an hour ago. I know I shouldn't do that, but it just hurts so much right now.

Are there things that I can do for pain that aren't pills? Or is there a better option than ibuprofin (naproxen doesn't work for me)? I'm hoping the doctor calls on Monday, but I've still got to at least get through today.

50 Shades of Grey

[(Anonymous)]

Has anyone here actually read the book cover to cover? Is it really as badly written as it's said to be?

I've heard the writing is worse than Twilight, but I find that hard to imagine.

The OC, One Tree Hill, Beverly Hills 20910, Degrassi, etc.

[(Anonymous)]

Can someone please explain the appeal of these shows to me? I don't get it at all.

Why does my thumbnail have little white dots?

[caerbannog]

They look like scuffs or scratches but are not???