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The Swing (ca. 1767) by Fragonard One of the iconic images of French erotica. Notice the peeping tom lying at her feet trying to glare upskirt
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The Swing (ca. 1767) by Fragonard
One of the iconic images of French erotica. Notice the peeping tom lying at her feet trying to glare upskirt

Low art refers to the lesser or minor arts, including the decorative or applied arts, with the inference that these are low partly because of shoddy manufacturing in inferior materials of superficial kitsch, simply catering to popular taste, unreflective acceptance of realism, and a certain "couch potato" mentality. Robert J. Belton contends that the boundary between high and low art has faded in the contemporary art scene and its place has been taken by discussion of popular or mass culture.


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