Kitsch
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[[Image:The Enchantress (1878) - Luis Riccardo Faléro.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[The Enchantress]]'' ([[1878]]) - [[Luis Riccardo Faléro]], 19th century [[Orientalist]] painting is often considered [[kitsch]]]] | [[Image:The Enchantress (1878) - Luis Riccardo Faléro.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[The Enchantress]]'' ([[1878]]) - [[Luis Riccardo Faléro]], 19th century [[Orientalist]] painting is often considered [[kitsch]]]] | ||
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- "[t]he difference between kitsch and camp is often hard to establish, partly because camp could be said to be in the eye of the beholder. Camp could be called a self-conscious kitsch and that self-consciousness can, indeed, exist on the part of viewer rather than the producer of the otherwise kitsch product." --Professor D.F. Felluga
Kitsch is a term of German origin that has been used to categorize art that is considered an inferior copy of an existing style. The term is also used more loosely in referring to any art that is pretentious to the point of being in bad taste, and also commercially produced items that are considered trite or crass.
Because the word was brought into use as a response to a large amount of art in the 19th century where the aesthetic of art work was associated with a sense of exaggerated sentimentality or melodrama, kitsch is most closely associated with art that is sentimental; however, it can be used to refer to any type of art that is deficient for similar reasons—whether it tries to appear sentimental, glamorous, theatrical, or creative, kitsch is said to be a gesture imitative of the superficial appearances of art. It is often said that kitsch relies on merely repeating convention and formula, lacking the sense of creativity and originality displayed in genuine art.
See also
- Popular culture
- Avant-Garde and Kitsch
- Camp
- Taste
- Aesthetics
- Paraliterature
- Pop Art
- Radical design
- The Painter of Modern Life