Thomas Kinkade: Painter of Light

As much as I love the great master artists, artists like Degas, Manet, Monet, Renoir and Van Gogh….. probably my most favorite artist, an artist whose paintings make me feel like I am in another world and want to remain living there, is Thomas Kinkade – ”the painter of light”.

Thomas Kinkade is America's most collected living artist. Coming from a modest
background, Kinkade emphasizes simple pleasures and inspirational messages
through his paintings. As a devout Christian, Kinkade uses his gift as a vehicle
to communicate and spread inherent life-affirming values.It was while growing up
in the small town of Placerville, California that these important values were
nurtured. It was also during this time that Kinkade began to explore the world
around him. He spent a summer on a sketching tour with a college friend,
producing the best-selling instructional book, The Artist's Guide to Sketching.
The success of the book landed the two young artists at Ralph Bakshi Studios to
create background art for the animated feature film Fire and Ice. It was also
during this time that Kinkade began to explore light and imaginative worlds with
abandon.After the film, Kinkade earned his living as a painter, selling his
originals in galleries throughout California. In 1982, he married his childhood
sweetheart, Nanette, and two years later they began to publish his art.

Post-Impressionism: (1885 - 1905)

*Taken from World Wide Art Resources.com*

The Post Impressionist period came when several former Impressionist painters became dissatisfied with the movements insistence on light and color. The post-Impressionists aspired to fine more depth in the roles of color, form and solidity in painting.

Post Impressionism was a continuation of the Impressionist movement, but rejected the limitations of its predecessor. The terms was first used by English art critic Roger Fry describing the work of painters such as Paul Cezanne, Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec among others. The term does not define a singular style or approach, it encompasses all artists that whose main goal was to express more than a visual interpretation. Their aim was to portray emotion and intellect in addition to imagery.

Also related to Pointillism, a technique associated with Paul Signac and Georges Seurat, this partition of the movement called themselves the Neo-Impressionists because of their impressionist revival.

Links to WWAR.com Post-Impressionist Artist:
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Beardsley, Aubrey - 1872 - 1898
Cezanne, Paul - 1839 - 1906
Ensor, James - 1860 - 1949
Fry, Roger - 1866 - 1934
Gauguin, Paul - 1843 - 1903
Innes, James Dickson - 1887 - 1914
Munch, Edvard - 1863 - 1944
O’Conor, Roderic - 1860 - 1940
Rousseau, Henri - 1844 - 1910
Seurat, Georges - 1859 - 1891
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de - 1864 - 1901
Van Gogh, Vincent - 1853 - 1890

Some of my most favorite Post-Impressionist paintings are from........

Vincent Van Gogh:

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I will continue to add my favorite Post-Impressionist paintings as I find them. Please stay tuned! :D

Impressionism: (1865 - 1885)

*Taken from World Wide Art Resources.com*

The history of modern art begins with Impressionism, a movement founded in Paris as an opposition to the rigid traditions favored by institutions such as the Academie des Beaux-Arts. In 1863, Edouard Manet exhibited his painting "Dejeuner sur l’herbe" at the Salon des Refuses. The painting caused commotion, thus founding the Impressionist movement. Although Manet is the proclaimed leader and founder of the group, he was not present at the first group exhibition or any of the other eight collective Impressionist shows. The movement gained more attention in April of 1874 when a group of artists called Societe Anonyme des Artistes, Peintres, Sculpteurs, Graveurs began exhibiting outside of the official Salon. The same year, the term Impressionism was coined by criticizing journalist Louis Leroy, who worked for the magazine, Le Charivari.

The Impressionist style of painting emphasized loose imagery rather than finely delineated pictures. The artists of the movement worked mostly outdoors and strived to capture the variations of light at differing times throughout the day. Their color palettes were colorful and they rarely used blacks or grays. Subject matter was most often landscape or scenes from daily life. Impressionists were interested in the use of color, tone, and texture in order to objectively record nature. They emphasized sunlight, shadows, and direct and reflected light. In order to produce vibrant colors, they applied short brush strokes of contrasting colors to the canvas, rather than mixing hues on a palette.

Many critics found Impressionist work seemingly incomplete. Post-Impressionism emerged in the 1880’s, which adopted Impressionism’s use of contrasting colors but found other aspects of the movement to be too restricting. Another offshoot of the movement was Neo-Impressionism.

Links to WWAR.com Impressionist Artist:
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Abdy, Rowena Meeks - 1887 - 1945
Adams, John Ottis - 1851 - 1927
Bazille, Frederic - 1841 - 1870
Boudin, Eugene - 1824 - 1898
Caillebotte, Gustave - 1848 - 1894
Cassatt, Mary - 1845 - 1926
Chase, William Merritt - 1849 - 1916
Degas, Edgar - 1834 - 1917
Guillaumin, Armand - 1841 - 1927
Hassam, Childe - 1859 - 1935
Lawson, Ernest - 1873 - 1939
Liebermann, Max - 1847 - 1935
MacColl, Dugald Sutherland - 1859 - 1948
Manet, Edouard - 1832 - 1883
Manzu, Giacomo - 1908 - 1991
Monet, Claude - 1840 - 1926
Morisot, Berthe - 1841 - 1895
Pissarro, Camille - 1830 - 1903
Renoir, Pierre Auguste - 1841 - 1919
Roberts, Tom - 1856 - 1931
Rosso, Medardo - 1858 - 1928
Saint-Gardens, Augustus - 1848 - 1907
Sargent, John Singer - 1856 - 1925
Sickert, Walter Richard - 1860 - 1942
Sisley, Alfred - 1839 - 1899
Slevogt, Max - 1868 - 1932
Utrillo, Maurice - 1883 - 1955
Walker, Dame Ethel - 1861 - 1951

Some of my favorite Impressionist paintings

Edouard Manet:


Claude Monet:


Pierre-Auguste Renoir:


Mary Cassatt:


Seeing as to how I wanted nothing more than to be a Ballerina when I was young.... I studied ballet briefly, had dancing ballerina dolls, ballerina bed sheets and all things ballerina.... it would only make sense that one of my favorite artist is.....

Edgar Degas:







What I love so much about these Degas, is the hazy/fuzzy effect and the colors..... it is like being in a dream looking at these. :D

I will continue to add my favorite Impressionist paintings as I find them. Please stay tuned! :D

I Am A Painting.....

Here are some computer generated paintings of me.

Here I am as a Mucha painting:

Here I am as a Bottacelli:

Here I am as a Modigliani:

And here I am as a Manga cartoon: