Word: kitsch
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...Sarkozy pal) such as wrinkled rocker Johnny Hallyday enjoying Legion membership, they energetically defend Jerry Lewis deserving the same honor. Similarly, while some argue that actor G?rard Depardieu has done more than enough to merit his selection, it's difficult to find anyone in France who even knows who kitsch artist Jeff Koons is - much less why he's sharing a tribute with Helen Keller, Hans Blix and Jacques Cousteau. And you don't have to be a rabid (Groucho) Marxist to turn down membership in a club that includes murderous Central African Republic "Emperor" Jean-Bédel Bokassa...
...drawing before and throughout high school. She got into performance art because of its immediacy and the fact that, to Hays, it felt more intuitive, as if she did not need to bring a studied discipline to it. She then moved to making videos. “Performance, spectacle, kitsch, is what feels natural to me,” she says.Her individual pieces involve “kittens and bunnies and puppies and flowers,” things that Hays says she loves and that other people oftentimes find “kitschy.” Over the past...
...strained seriousness" to Andrew Sarris. On seeing Phaedra - an updated Greek tragedy that threw Anthony Perkins into the arms of stepmother Mercouri - Pauline Kael compared it invidiously to a Bette Davis weepie. Both were making the same point: that art isn't only what comes from Europe, and that kitsch wasn't a Hollywood monopoly...
...whackedout cousin, cranking out curveball rap that was the jungle gym to N.W.A’s roughhouse. After a psilocybin-and-videogames induced hiatus, he gifted hip-hop with the formation of his Oakland based funk-rap group Hieroglyphics. A few years later he joined forces with kitsch producer Dan the Automator and DJ Kid Koala to churn out the futuristic cult classic “Deltron...
...urinal as art. He shocked New York when he was in his 20s with a painting supposedly of a nude woman descending a staircase, which had no woman visible, just strange, machine-like, abstract forms. All three artists did parody paintings, mocking taste. Ray painted in a bright, cheerfully kitsch style recalling décor in the background of middle-class apartments in old Hollywood movies. Picabia painted textured abstracts that had nothing but a few primitive dots on them resembling enlarged points of light. (In 1950, the art critic for TIME said they had "all the monotony and none...