Quotes by category:Kitsch

Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme ki... by Allen Ginsberg

Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.

kitsch catholic church

If you speak of beauty, you are at once suspected of...kitsch. by Balthus

If you speak of beauty, you are at once suspected of...kitsch.

kitsch speak ifs

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

kitsch ornaments understanding

The peasant finds no "natural" urgency within himself that will drive him toward Picasso in spite of all difficulties. In the end the peasant will go back to kitsch when he feels like looking at pictures, for he can enjoy kitsch without effort

Clement Greenberg

kitsch effort natural

Where Picasso paints cause, Repin paints effect. Repin predigests art for the spectator and provides a short cut to the pleasure of art that is necessarily difficult in genuine art. Repin, or kitsch, is synthetic art.

Clement Greenberg

kitsch cutting art

Kitsch is Mechanical and operates by formulas. by Clement Greenberg

Kitsch is Mechanical and operates by formulas.

Clement Greenberg

kitsch formulas

The precondition for kitsch, is the availability of a fully matured cultural tradition, whose discoveries kitsch can take advantage of for its own ends. It draws its lifeblood, so to speak, from this reservoir of accumulated experience

Clement Greenberg

kitsch availability discovery

I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love t... by Cy Twombly

I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste."

tchaikovsky kitsch profound

Kitsch is: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste, and is rejected with disdain, at least rated at much lower value.

kitsch taste art

Salvador Dali has been called kitsch, but, although some of this work may be grotesque, its brazenly self-conscious bad taste saves it from being true kitsch, which always strives to please.

kitsch self may

Solemnity and a complete absence of irony also mark kitsch. by Denis Dutton

Solemnity and a complete absence of irony also mark kitsch.

kitsch irony absence

Once kitsch is interpreted ironically, it ceases to be kitsch by Denis Dutton

Once kitsch is interpreted ironically, it ceases to be kitsch

kitsch cease

Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's... by Don DeLillo

Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn.

kitsch taste art

I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of being a dancing girl.

kitsch girl dancing

Kitsch is the contemporary form of the Gothic, Rococo, Baroque. by Frank Wedekind

Kitsch is the contemporary form of the Gothic, Rococo, Baroque.

gothic kitsch form

Every ambiguous, false, tearful, emotional exaggeration brings about that typically kitsch attitude which could be defined as "sentimentality."

kitsch emotional attitude

Kitsch is art that follows established rules in a time when all rules in art are put into question by each artist.

Harold Rosenberg

kitsch artist art

The goddess of beauty is the goddess Kitsch. by Hermann Broch

The goddess of beauty is the goddess Kitsch.

kitsch goddess

Romanticism is the mother of kitsch and that there are moments when the child becomes so like its mother that one cannot differentiate between them

kitsch mother children

Kitsch generates pseudonovelty with no new insight into reality, or else does not concern itself at all with the new and produces its effects with more or less academic eclecticism.

kitsch doe reality

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