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Kitsch

Work that is pretentious, and in some opinions, in bad taste, It represents applying styles without understanding them. It is part of camp taste that values the outrageous or worst excesses of commercialism..
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kitsch

Art or architecture that is sentimental or banal in tone; considered to have little or no aesthetic value.
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As cores fortes, sobretudo primarias e secundarias, e um gosto peculiar pela complementaridade natural entre elas tambem sao evidencias do kitsch. A mae do diretor, Francisca Caballero, vestiu luto desde que tinha 3 anos, por causa da morte de seu pai, ate o nascimento de Pedro.
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Kitsch is now involved in a pivotal case in Naples, Florida, where in 2001 the local airport successfully used the ANCA procedures to ban the loud Stage I and II planes that are lighter than the law's weight limit.
Shanks focus on Hegel's phenomenology of the "Unhappy Consciousness," which he takes to be an adequate philosophical reflection on the distorting nature of kitsch, of authoritarian ideologies.
The second of their shows involved the trio transforming into the Kitsch & Sync Collective's Dating Agency for Last Chance Romance, which also delved into their love affair with swing dance and toe-tapping tunes.
Another Scottish designer has come up with this super kitsch and fun necklace design.
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