Ebbie, I think the issue people have with Kinkade is less the actual "popular" nature of the content than his promotional methods, his production methods, and the marketing of franchises that took advantage of both investors and customers.

If you want to look at the imagery and find a comparison, I suppose a fair amount of Robert Frost's poetry treads the same ground that Kinkade's pictures do. It isn't the subject matter, it is the methods and the promotion.

SRS