We want or do not want, we are invaded by kitsch art.
If you ask me, as a psychotherapist, I would say that kitsch does not exist for me.
Art is a territory accessible to anyone, and from this point of view it is therapy and a way of expressing the personality of the artist. It is a form of sublimation, which is a self-defense mechanism with profoundly adaptive value.
Art is therapy because it heals soul's wounds and makes people to feel better and more aware of their value, of their potential.
And then, any ''artistic product'' does not matter how sophisticated it is from an aesthetic point of view. This artistic product stores the feelings, the thoughts, the things that can not be said in words and gains value through it.
Detail of Still life with Pearls by @aci7
From an academic perspective, the kitsch seems to be something else.
According to Wikipedia, KITSCH is: art or other objects that appeal to popular or uncultivated taste because they are garish or overly sentimental, which means that these objects are considered by other people to be ugly, without style, false, or in poor taste but enjoyed or appreciated by still other people in an ironic or knowing way or because it is funny.
Wow! That sounds great?
But isn't there a famous saying that says beauty is in the eyes of the beholder?
When is kitsch?
When some works of art are too full of sentimentalism and melodrama. But isn't this what everybody are looking for in a piece of art? To feel something, to resonate with the content of the composition?
Why is Kitsch?
An artwork is considered a Kitsch when it is an imitation and produces too much emotion without forcing the viewer to an intellectual effort. The viewer must decipher, understand the meaning of that piece of art and have a deep personal and spiritual experience.
When the subject of art is too emotionally charged produces fake emotions and is not appreciated by the art-educated elite. :(
What can I say more?
Kitsch or not, it is art and that's matters! :)
I invite you next to look at some of my photographic Kitsch compositions.
I hope you will not get to emotional! :))
Still life with apple
2014
Still life with pearls
2014
You are right, its in the eye of the beholder... one persons kitsch is another ones masterpiece. I think, as an artist you best simply concentrate on your own thing!
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I agree. That's right!
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