What exactly is kitsch and how can be kitch identified?

>>1479997
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Literally Shit

It's like pornography, I can't define it, but I know it when I see it.

>>1479997

The tragically cool.

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>>1479997
It has different definitions.

Cultural memes that used to be vulgar, tacky, in poor taste a generation ago but that by being decontextualized (since they were artifacts of their historical period) they become "cool".

Tarantino art house movies are a good example of this.

Kitsch (/ˈkJtʃ/; loanword from German, also called cheesiness and tackiness) is a low-brow style of mass-produced art or design using popular or cultural icons. The word was first applied to artwork that was a response to certain divisions of 19th-century art with aesthetics that favored what later art critics would consider to be exaggerated sentimentality and melodrama. Hence, 'kitsch art' is closely associated with 'sentimental art'. Kitsch is also related to the concept of camp, because of its humorous and ironic nature.

To brand visual art as "kitsch" is generally pejorative, as it implies that the work in question is gaudy, or that it deserves a solely ornamental and decorative purpose rather than amounting to a work of true artistic merit. The chocolate box artist Thomas Kinkade (1958–2012), whose idyllic landscape scenes were often lampooned by art critics as "maudlin" and "schmaltzy," is considered a leading example of contemporary kitsch.[1][2][3]

The term is also sometimes applied to music.