Word: kitschyness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The late 19th century art audience, especially in America, liked "puzzle pictures" -- images that told a hidden story. Still life was a standard vehicle for these. It was the end of an older tradition, that of the allegorical table piece, the vanitas paintings that were so popular in the Netherlands...
Huge, hideous, kitschy, but popular nonetheless, these monuments to commercialism are an endangered species:
As architects began rediscovering the virtues of color and history and whimsy a decade ago, the buildings that resulted were often derided as cartoonish exercises in kitschy nostalgia. Disneyesque became a standard pejorative applied to the work of such post-Modernists as Michael Graves and Robert A.M. Stern. Now, rather...
The flaws in this engaging University production lie not so much in the dramatization as in the logistics of the musical. Many of the performers can sing and dance only marginally, and some of the choreography is uninspired and ill-conceived. A lot of the music, rather than being spectacular...