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Re: paintings vs prints

From: Maggie White (mwhiteaz)
Date: Sun Feb 20 2000 - 10:33:04 PST

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    Woody Duncan wrote:

    > Bicyclken wrote:
    >
    > > > I thought I was the only person in the free world who couldn't appreciate
    > > > Kinkade.

    > It's our job as
    > art educators
    > to convince people that they can buy top quality original art for much
    > less that they
    > would pay for a painted over reproduction from Kincades factory.
    > Woody

    I was following this thread with interest as Kinkade makes me gag, too. He is
    certainly a slick marketer, and I'll bet he dubbed himself "The Painter of Light."

    You see a lot of dreck like it in magazines like Southwest Art, also: all those
    romanticized cowboys and Indians, sometimes by people with dubious claims to Indian
    heritage (how does 1/8 or 1/16 blood take precedence over the other 7/8 or 15/16?)
    Anway, Woody's statement above made me think of how so many of my most talented
    students (and I teach on a reservation) see that stuff and think all they have to
    do is crank out the same tired ga'an dancers or bullriders or Geronimo and make a
    living selling it. How do I go about convincing those students they need to
    stretch the limits of their talents, learn new techniques and materials, when the
    marketplace is so powerful? They see the stuff that sells. One of my students
    just won a scholarship in an exhibit in a nearby town for a very un-"Indian"
    drawing, yet he sells the cranked-out "Indian art" on a regular basis.

    Whew, this is making me tired just thinking about it.

    Maggie 

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