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Thomas Kinkade, RIP
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The self-proclaimed painter of light, Thomas Kinkade, died unexpectedly on Friday at the age of 54. Before becoming a fine artist, Kinkade had worked on Ralph Bakshi’s Fire and Ice. In recent years, Kinkade had been making Disney-themed paintings, or as he called them, “narrative panoramas”.