Superiority--in other words, stop being pretentious and get over yourself.

I think that art has almost always been for the upper class. A mark, something which distinguishes the upper class from everyone else. They have their opera, they have their mansions, they have their art. So what Kinkade is doing--that is, creating art for the middle class--must be shocking. An equalizer? No way! Got to find something wrong with his art in order to maintain the superiority of the upper class.

I know that Kinkade really does have a few spins of the same scenery and that's really all he draws. Lighthouses, cottages, and gardens. It's the same thing. But why does that matter? Lichtenstein just drew cartoon images over and over again, but he's hailed as an artistic genius. Why the difference between Lichtenstein and Kinkade?

Art as commercialism? I don't know. I don't see how it's that much of a problem. Especially in America, right? Everything is a business here.