Kehinde Wiley’s art is a great example ... bodies being turned into gorgeously lit paintings, much less skateboard decks? Kundera also defined kitsch as “the absolute denial of s---, in ...

JOHANNESBURG - Vladimir Tretchikoff's iconic painting "Lady from the Orient" has sold for more than $1.7m in a new world ...

You may think you know the whole story of kitsch master Thomas Kinkade ... is far beyond telling the story of one artist, or even of rehabilitating his image for an art world that scorned him.

In a new film profile, Thomas Kinkade's pastoral, hugely popular work sits uncomfortably with darker revelations from family members and a trove of unseen work.

I hung the painting as a tribute to my grandmother ... The prevalence of kitsch is, in part, the point. It is art that can be accessed by millions of people, regardless of class or circumstance.

These painting, which were commissioned for commercial use, are regarded most often as kitsch, art that is basically bad to the bone. Recounting the highbrow opinion of these pieces, Poker News ...

paintings by the California artist Thomas Kinkade were the art equivalent of elevator music, the ultimate kitsch cultural touchstone. They were so ubiquitous, they needed little description ...

Of a series of Chicago bar-scene paintings, the author writes ... Neiman “makes modern art for people who hate art.” Neiman ...

The kitsch was part of a calculated ... that 1 in 20 American houses included a work by the artist. That makes it difficult to reject his art out of hand, and the film struggles, just as many ...