Kitsch

What is Kitsch?

Kitsch is a term used to describe cheap, commercial, sentimental, or vulgar art and objects commonly associated with popular culture. The word is borrowed from German, where it originally means trash. Since the 1920s, kitsch has been used to denote the opposite of high art, often implying that the work lacks sophistication or artistic merit.
England as Seen During Lockdown From Islington

Grayson Perry

England as Seen During Lockdown From Islington, 2021

Limited Edition Print

Pigment print

GBP 23,500

Pinocchio (Lincoln Center)

Jim Dine

Pinocchio (Lincoln Center), 2008

Limited Edition Print

Mixed Media

USD 5,000 - 8,000

Split-Rocker (Vase)

Jeff Koons

Split-Rocker (Vase), 2012

Sculpture / Object

Porcelain

EUR 3,000

Stay Strong Swiss

Mr. Brainwash

Stay Strong Swiss, 2020

Limited Edition Print

Screen-print

EUR 1,600

Love Above All

Mr. Brainwash

Love Above All, 2024

Painting

Mixed Media

EUR 7,200

Je t'aime (Splash)

Mr. Brainwash

Je t'aime (Splash), 2018

Sculpture / Object

Resin

EUR 3,000

Miles Davis (Red, Yellow)

Mr. Brainwash

Miles Davis (Red, Yellow), 2015

Limited Edition Print

Screen-print

EUR 2,500

Tune Squad

Mr. Brainwash

Tune Squad, 2021

Limited Edition Print

Screen-print

EUR 3,800

Tomato Pop (Blue)

Mr. Brainwash

Tomato Pop (Blue), 2023

Limited Edition Print

Screen-print

EUR 3,500

Rubik's Atlas

Mr. Brainwash

Rubik's Atlas, 2021

Limited Edition Print

Screen-print

EUR 1,800

Cadmium Red medium

Jim Dine

Cadmium Red medium, 2021

Painting

Mixed Media

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Tomato Pan

Jim Dine

Tomato Pan, 2022

Painting

Acrylic on canvas

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Red Design for Satin Heart

Jim Dine

Red Design for Satin Heart, Red

Limited Edition Print

Etching

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The Realistic Poet Assassinated

Jim Dine

The Realistic Poet Assassinated, 1970 / 1971

Limited Edition Print

Etching

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Rose in Bloom

Jim Dine

Rose in Bloom, 2023

Limited Edition Print

Mixed Media

USD 14,700

Hart in Blue

Jim Dine

Hart in Blue, 1995

Limited Edition Print

Mixed Media

Currently Not Available

Body Art

Body art involves creating art directly on or with the human body. Common forms include body piercings and tattoos, but it also encompasses practices like branding, scarification, scalping, body painting, full-body tattoos, body shaping, and sub-dermal implants. Body art can also refer to a subcategory of performance art where the artist's body is central to the artwork.

Woodcut

Woodcut is a printing technique where an image is carved into the surface of a woodblock using gouges, with the remaining flat surface holding the ink for printing. The areas cut away by the artist do not carry ink, while the uncut areas do, producing the desired print. The carving follows the wood's grain, unlike wood engraving, where the block is cut across the end-grain. Ink is applied to the surface with a roller, ensuring only the flat, uncarved areas receive ink, leaving the recessed, non-printing areas clean.

Photorealism

Photorealism is a genre of art or artistic movement that involves drawing, painting, and other graphic media in which the artist carefully studies a photograph and attempts to reproduce it as realistically as possible in another medium. While the term can broadly describe any artwork created in this manner, it specifically refers to a group of painters and paintings in the U.S. art movement that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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