Art inspired by or intended for commercial purposes is charming yet fresh,” opines Aggarwal. Kitsch art is an acquired taste. Like sushi, it ‘grows’ on you.

After the topic was raised in another message board I was thinking about what makes art Kitsch and I started imagining --- I am a guy with very little learnin and damn proud of it. "I chew my ...

Few things can stir up a sense of nostalgia as readily as a beautifully crafted piece of Murano art glass. Whether in the ...

Charles G. Martignette was eccentric even by the standards of kitsch art collectors. The Hallandale man, who died in February 2008 at age 57, started snatching up pin-ups and pulp art in the 1970s, ...

Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch, but time and again it is drawn back to its lure, says Roger Scruton. In the early years of the 20th Century, the arts entered a period of ...

Art scholar Michio Hayashi theorized that the popular perception of “Japaneseness” in the West was cemented in the 1980s by triangulating “kitsch hybridity,” “primordial nature,” and ...

If there's anything that scares the pants off the avant-garde art world, it's kitsch. Plastic statues of saints and garden Pietas, say. Or tropical landscapes spray-painted on the sides of vans.

Kitsch is the art equivalent of George Orwell’s “prolefeed,” mass-produced garbage news, entertaining and titillating, distributed to the uneducated to distract them and keep them stupid.

Kitsch art Iranian artist Khosrow Hassanzadeh has this to say about Ready to Order, an ambitious body of work that pays tribute to well-known and unknown personalities of Iran: “It refers to the ...