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What makes things "kitsch"?
Like everybody agrees picrel is kitsch, but how is it any different from Giza pyramids or Taj Mahal?
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>>18411963
What are you trying to say anon?
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>>18411963
>Like everybody agrees picrel is kitsch, but how is it any different from Giza pyramids or Taj Mahal?
Well for one it's a completely fake render
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>>18411963
How will it compare with the Richard Nixon Library in California?
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>>18412191
I don't think it makes any logical sense to scoff at Trump Library while at the same time marvel at other famous buildings
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>>18411963


SOMETHING KITSCH IS SOMETHING VULGAR DISGUISED AS, OR WITH APPEARANCE OF, SOMETHING ELEGANT.

SOMETHING VULGAR IS SOMETHING THAT LACKS SOPHISTICATION, INGENUITY, GENUINENESS, GRACILITY, GOOD FORM; SOMETHING THAT PERTAINS TO THE VVLGVS, TO THE RABBLE, TO THE PEOPLE, TO THE MASSES, TO THE COMMONERS, TO THE HOI POLLOI, TO THE POPULACE, TO THE DEMOS, TO THE RIFF RAFF, TO THE MANY UNWASHED.

THAT PARTICULAR THING IN THE ATTACHED IMAGE IS KITSCH BECAUSE IT IS DISPROPORTIONATE IN ITS RELATIVE DIMENSIONS, AND IN ITS OVERALL MAGNITUDE; THE STYLE IS SOME SPECIES OF HYPERMODERNISTIC NEOCLASSICAL PASTICHE; THE DISTRIBUTION OF SPACE IS NOT ERGONOMIC; THE MATERIALS OF CONSTRUCTION SEEM VERITABLY POOR IN QUALITY, INCLUDING THOSE OF THE STATUE, WHICH SEEMS TO BE MISSHAPEN, AND WHICH, OF COURSE, WILL NOT BE MADE OF GOLD.

IT IS EVIDENT THAT THE INTENTION IS TO PROJECT MAJESTY, AND POWER, BUT IT COMES OFF AS CLOYING AND FARCICAL.

«KITSCH» MEANS «GARISH».
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>>18412777
Your posts are kitch.
They pretend to be profound while are just silly.
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>>18411963
something actually oustanding vs something mundane made to look expensive just to flaunt like a negroid



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