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

You may think you know the whole story of kitsch master Thomas Kinkade ... is far beyond telling the story of one artist, or even of rehabilitating his image for an art world that scorned him.

He makes art critics cringe, but Thomas Kinkade — whose idyllic paintings of storybook cottages and pastoral landscapes glow ...

Koons, who rose to fame with his balloon animals and mirror-polished sculptures, was just 18 and an art school student ... in 1923 with a two-metre-tall oil painting rendered in subdued grayscale.

He makes art critics cringe, but Thomas Kinkade — whose idyllic paintings of storybook cottages ... as few take Kinkade’s kitsch creations — which have been mass-produced as coffee mugs ...