Introducing "Butkus," the Turf Tank robot leased for around $15,000 to paint every field on the University of Illinois ...

In the 1990s, Thomas Kinkade was the most successful ... it was estimated that one in 20 American houses owned Kinkade artwork via a painting, a calendar, a Christmas ornament, a postcard, a ...

“A Quiet Evening” by Thomas Kinkade “I want to avoid painting silly and sweet pictures, charming pictures, happy pictures,” a 16-year-old Kinkade says in the film. “I want to paint the ...

Lampposts casting a glow over the scene. These are the soothing images – the functional equivalent of comfort food — that made artist Thomas Kinkade a fortune in the 1980s and ‘90s.

Look at a Thomas Kinkade painting for an instant, and you see a fantasy of home. Look at it again, and that fantasy begins to seem surreal and terrifying.

Orlean is truly delighted. Thomas Kinkade’s Untitled (Self-portrait with a Paint Stained Shirt) (around 1979), from his university years, was found in the artist’s vault after his death Photo ...

Thomas Kinkade once presided over an empire of radiantly unrealistic imagery, but his popular oeuvre reflected only a fraction of the man's identity, as Miranda Yousef's documentary reveals.

whereas you see in the movie an MBNA bank card with a Thomas Kinkade painting on it. He was already doing it 20 or 30 years ago." Finally, by calling himself the Painter of Light, and by trading ...

Thomas Kinkade turned himself into a ubiquitous brand ... vowing to “avoid silly and sweet and charming pictures; I want to paint the truth.” Stuffing these impulses down, the film suggests ...

As included in his obituary, more than 10 million homes in U.S. have a Thomas Kinkade painting. Kinkade also famously painted the backgrounds for Bakshi and Frazetta’s “Fire & Ice.” ...