Thomas Kincade: The Dying of the Light


Thomas Kinkade, "Painter of Light," has passed away at the age of 54. An autopsy is in the works to discern whether the cause of death was anything more than natural causes. Here is him painting a picture of Graceland, Elvis Presley's home.   


The art world dismissed Kinkade as a mass producer of kitsch. Glowing cottages with smoke rising lazily from the hearth evoked feelings of a simplistically surreal world where sorrow was absent. The cottage would not burn down, nor would the lives inside the cottage be wrought with strife. All was good, all was bright. I call that the Edenic archetype, memories and longings of a Garden, where death did not prevail. 


Yet, his painting were only a part of  the world's spectrum and could not obscure the darkness beyond and before. Kinkade's personal life canvas had its tragic hues. I have to wonder if Kinkade's painting below, "Prince of Peace," should have been more the type of art that ultimately would have shone the light through the darkness more authentically and effectively....both in his work and his life.  



2 Cor 4:6

For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.

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