Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Paintings Of Andy Warhol And Thomas Kinkade

By Darren Hartley


Andy Warhol paintings include a series of digital artworks made on an Amiga 1000 in the mid-1980s. Amiga 1000 is a personal computer created by the Commodore International. Andy created a few public pieces as part of a marketing campaign. It is not known if he made additional digital artworks on his own time.

Now it can be told that he actually did. Stashed away on dozens of unlabeled floppy disks are a treasure trove of Andy Warhol paintings never before seen by the public. These slowly deteriorating artworks consisted of 28 works of art in the form of digital pieces. Andy created them on a host of 1980s graphics software.

If there is one person to thank for this discovery, it would be an NYC artist named Cory Arcangel. A self proclaimed Warhol enthusiast, his curiosity was aroused after watching a clip of Andy Warhol paintings during an Amiga demonstration. Among the paintings was a digital portrait of Debbie Harry. In this case, curiosity did not kill the cat.

It was at the very beginning of his artistic career when Thomas Kinkade spent his entire life savings into the printing of his first lithograph. Not for fame or fortune, it was the simple act of painting straight from the heart that provided the inspiration for the Thomas Kinkade paintings. It was more from a need to put on canvas the wonders and images of nature that Thomas was able to come up with his art.

The artist behind the Thomas Kinkade paintings used his art to share the joy he felt throughout his lifetime. His paintings were sold in support of hospitals, schools and humanitarian relief. Painting for Thomas was not just a hobby or a way of life, but a ministry for charity by raising hundreds of thousands of dollars.

It is in the depiction of simple pleasures and delivery of inspirational messages that the emphasis of Thomas Kinkade paintings lie. It always from a higher power that Thomas credits his ability and inspiration that enables him to create his art.




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