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Klimt
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kitsch

Postby Klimt » Fri Feb 08, 2008 10:09 pm

Sentimentality or vulgar, often pretentious bad taste, especially in the arts: "When money tries to buy beauty it tends to purchase a kind of courteous kitsch" (William H. Gass).
Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.
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Postby Slava » Sun Jan 16, 2011 3:18 pm

In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix movie (#5) one might say that Dolores Umbridge's office was decorated in Kitten Kitsch.
Life is like playing chess with chessmen who each have thoughts and feelings and motives of their own.
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