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Kitsch refers to art and objects that are mass-produced, emotionally appealing, and often considered to lack serious artistic merit—like the famous Dogs Playing Poker paintings or Jeff Koons's giant flower-covered puppy sculpture. It matters because it raises questions about taste, authenticity, and the value of art, and some artists deliberately use kitsch elements to comment on consumer culture and sentimentality.
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- Instance of
- art movement
- Subclass of
- work of art
- Part of
- aesthetics
- Image
- Gartenzwerg.jpg
- Said to be same as
- paraliterature
- Has use
- irony
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- Commons category
- Kitsch
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- has characteristic
- melodrama
- facet of
- literature
- significant person
- Walter Benjamin
- model item
- Dogs Playing Poker
- partially coincident with
- camp
- has contributing factor
- plastic
- present in work
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- has effect
- The Kitsch Movement
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Kitsch steht zumeist abwertend gemeinsprachlich für einen aus Sicht des Betrachters minderwertigen Gefühlsausdruck. In Gegensatz gebracht zu einer künstlerischen Bemühung um das Wahre oder das Schöne, werten Kritiker einen zu einfachen Weg, Gefühle auszudrücken, als sentimental, trivial oder kitschig.
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