Research

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 Kitsch
March 2024

I wanted to look into what kitsch is, to have a better understanding on ways some art pieces can be presided and incase my work is to accidently become it.

Jeff Koons
'i used it to remove judgment and to remove the type of hierarchy that exists. I don't like to use the word 'kitsch' because kitsch is automatically making a judgement about something. I always saw 'banality as a little freer than that.'

Koon talks about not liking the word kitsch, due to the more negative connotations and judgmental view on things being kitsch. This being seen as someone people of 'lower' class collects, due to lack of experience around things of 'more value'. He explores the idea of what has value, taking something that is kitsch and enlarging it. His work is often a way to talk against kitsch, it having kitsch look however not being kitsch within itself due to the meaning behind his work. Kitsch things are often cheaply made objects with the purpose just to have and look nice, what are often seen in lower class homes in glass cabinets.


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