Religious wars aside, that art is just awful. Pure kitsch. Did they commission Thomas Kinkade?https://twitter.com/BDStanley/status/1377991114830020620 …
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Rants Drive Rev ☯️ 🏴 😻 Retweeted Ben Stanley
Religious wars aside, that art is just awful. Pure kitsch. Did they commission Thomas Kinkade?https://twitter.com/BDStanley/status/1377991114830020620 …
Rants Drive Rev ☯️ 🏴 😻 added,
srs question I don't know the answer to: is kitsch objective, or is it cultural/relative? 30-60 years old and mainstream is kitsch, but ...which was does causality flow?
cc @kendrictonn
Kitsch is related to cringe; it always involves reaching back to a remembered ideal, and recreating a childish/nonfunctional version of the memory.
Rev's version is not unlike my answer, which is that kitsch is copying superficial traits, without real meaning or understanding, for the purpose of creating a shallow emotional effect. I would say "often involves reaching back", not "always", personally.
> copying superficial traits, without real meaning or understanding this ties into something that wife complains about re some fanfic video shorts - you know how in a well done movie or TV show you occasionally get an epic pay off, where the character who has been searching >
for his father's sword finally finds it, and the music swells? or he finally defeats the villain by stabbing him in the one place unprotected by the armor? and this has been building for 2 hours, or 15 episodes, or whatever, and the payoff is epic? wife reports that fanfic >
video is often composed of like 80% these moments...with no build up. They show the graduation without the studying montage, the lifting the stone without the backstory about weakness and adversity ... bc they have no idea how these moments are actually structured.
I would absolutely class that as (slightly non-central) kitsch. I was actually thinking about the star trek reboots, which do precisely the same thing with a larger budget
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