Today and tomorrow only in a local art gallery: a parody of Christian artists Thomas Kinkade and
Renowned and beloved as the “Painter of Light,” Thomas Kinkade is America’s best-selling fine artist. One who purchases a reproduction of one of Mr. Kinkade’s paintings may elect to have their purchase brought to life by a Kinkade-trained Master Highlighter, who adds color and definition with oil paint, truly bringing the lithographs to “light.” In that spirit, artists Jim Blanchard, Kamala Dolphin-Kingsley, Robert Hardgrave, Claire Johnson, Charles Krafft, Pat Moriarity, Erin Norlin, Marion Peck, Benton Peugh, Robert Rini, Bonni Reid, and Kipling West have highlighted pages from the Thomas Kinkade Painter of Light? with Scripture: 2004 Deluxe Wall Calendar, in their own distinct styles.
Jack T. Chick is one of the most prolific Christian evangelists in America, spreading the good news of Jesus Christ and bad news of eternal damnation though 3″ x 5″, 24-page comic book tracts, and his black and white shockers form the perfect counterpioint to Kinkade’s lush pastorals. Since 1961 he has created 175 proselytizing tracts, which have had more than 500,000,000 copies published in over 100 languages worldwide. Artists Tom Bagley, David R. Drake, Jed Dunkerly, Nathan Eyring, Rod Filbrandt, Cliff Hare, David Lasky, Deborah F Lawrence, Eric Reynolds, Johnny Ryan and Kamilla White have each created work inspired by Chick.
I’ll post pictures if we go. Found via The Stranger, Seattle’s own pro-evil free newspaper.
Awesome. In case you’re not familiar with Chick, he makes those horrendous “Rock and Roll is from the Devil” and “Why Catholics Go to Hell” tracts. Yeah. Not kidding.
For another Kinkade parody, see Sheepcomics (note the starving child in the foreground).
