Art for Everybody” is a smart, buzzy film. But its effort to reframe a savvy peddler of kitsch is all too familiar.

In a new film profile, Thomas Kinkade's pastoral, hugely popular work sits uncomfortably with darker revelations from family members and a trove of unseen work.

You may think you know the whole story of kitsch master Thomas Kinkade ... what is art and who gets to decide?” The film nicely sets up Kinkade against the context of contemporary art.

He makes art critics cringe, but Thomas Kinkade - whose idyllic paintings of storybook cottages and pastoral landscapes glow as if lit from within (some of them literally are, with tiny LEDs embedded ...

He carried a few extra pounds and sported a goatee as he spoke with fatherly instruction during art lessons from stages and TV screens. Thomas Kinkade was a popular art sensation the likes of ...

This was the Thomas Kinkade section, named for the artist who created the images of colorful homes nestled into sweet landscapes that were then painted and embroidered and printed onto anything a ...

"Thomas Kinkade's style is illustrative saccharine fantasy rather than art with which you can connect at any meaningful level," Charlotte Mullins, the author of A Little History of Art, tells the BBC.