Kitsch (English pronunciation: /ˈkɪtʃ/, loanword from German) is a form of art that is considered an inferior, tasteless copy of an extant style of art or a worthless imitation of art of recognized value.
Kitsch
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Kitsch is most commonly used to describe art that's considered overly sentimental, pretentious, or banal. It's used to dismiss such art as being in bad taste, of poor quality, or simply for having too much mass appeal.
Kitsch is a term of German origin that has been used to categorize art that is considered an inferior copy of an existing style.
Kitsch
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Kitsch is a term of German or Yiddish origin that has been used to categorize art that is considered an inferior, tasteless copy of an existing style.
kitsch
A term categorizing art that is considered an inferior copy of an existing style. The term is also used more loosely in referring to any art that it is pretentious or in bad taste.
Kitsch
From a German word ‘verkitschen’ which means to make cheap.It is often used as a dimissive term to describe objects and works of art that are considered to be bad taste and worthless.
KITSCH artwork, often mass produced, that goes beyond good taste.
LANDSCAPE the scenery of an inland area, a painting or drawing of the land or natural environment.
LAYER lying over or under another.
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kneaded eraser - An eraser that can be manipulated into any shape in order to remove pencil and many other marks cleanly. Also called a putty rubber.
Also see art gum eraser.
kitsch Sentimental, slick, and mass-produced art designed to appeal to the widest possible popular audience.
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Kitsch
This term refers to the "low-art" artifacts of everyday life. Paintings of Elvis on velvet, lamps from the statue of David, and clocks in statues of Budda. The term comes from the German verkitschen meaning "to make cheap.
Kitsch - Art characterized by vapidly sentimental, often pretentious poor taste. It is typically clumsy, repetitive, cheesy, and slickly commercial Return to top ...
buckeye - Any kitsch which is painted in oil and produced for the mass market, characterized by sloppy yet facile rendition, and stereotyped, flamboyant, or sentimental treatment of subject matter, typically landscape.
Clement Greenberg came to prominence during the late 1930s with his essay Avant-Garde and Kitsch, first published in the journal Partisan Review 1939.
kitsch - cheap, sentimental, vulgar, commercial or pretentious art; bad taste; see: schlock
knife painting - technique of applying paint, usually impasto, with a palette knife ...
Pop Art investigates in areas of popular taste and kitsch previously considered outside the limits of fine art. It was rejecting the attributes associated with art as an expression of personality.
Despite being less brash, less kitschy, more romantic and more nostalgic than its counterpart across the Atlantic, ...
Acting as a reaction to abstract expressionism, Pop Art emphasised the kitschy elements of popular culture to downgrade the elitist art culture and the seriousness that surrounded it.
Kitsch - Maudlin, overdone work. Over sentimental, designed to appeal to unsophisticated tastes. The word kitsch applies to many mass-produced works ...more info ...
Pop art, like pop music, aimed to employ images of popular as opposed to elitist culture in art, emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements of any given culture. Pop art at times targeted a broad audience, and often claimed to do so.
is key: Some sculptors of the American West employ tinted highlights, and certain contemporary bronze sculptors use high color. Unless these accents truly reinforce the intent and plasticity of the piece, color patinas can degrade into kitsch.
in Kansas", 1987, where an altar boy in a white surplice is standing behind a kitsch monument on a lawn in front of a tract house, the lawn ornament on its separate canvas looks like an afterthought even though its blue sphere, ...
by the huge popularity of "The Responsive Eye", an exhibition concentrating on the Op wing of the movement, which was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1965. Some critics attacked this Op work as "gadgetry", as a collection of kitschy ...
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