Whimsical vs Kitsch - What's the difference?
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Given to whimsy; capricious; odd; peculiar; playful; light-hearted or amusing.
Art, decorative objects and other forms of representation of questionable artistic or aesthetic value; a representation that is excessively sentimental, overdone, or vulgar.
* 1939 , , "
Said especially of art and decor that is considered to be of questionable aesthetic value; excessively sentimental, overdone or vulgar.
* 1989 , Graham Greene, Yours etc: Letters to the Press 1945-1989 , ISBN 1871061229, p. 243,
* 1996 , Robert Silberman, "The stuff of art: Judy Onofrio", American Craft , Jun/Jul 1996, pp. 40-45,
* 2005 , Ronald Frame, "Critical Paranoia", Michigan Quarterly Review , Spring 2005, p. 285,
As adjectives the difference between whimsical and kitsch
is that whimsical is given to whimsy; capricious; odd; peculiar; playful; light-hearted or amusing while kitsch is said especially of art and decor that is considered to be of questionable aesthetic value; excessively sentimental, overdone or vulgar.As a noun kitsch is
art, decorative objects and other forms of representation of questionable artistic or aesthetic value; a representation that is excessively sentimental, overdone, or vulgar.whimsical
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* whimsical sexkitsch
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(wikipedia kitsch)Noun
(-)Avant Garde and Kitsch", The Partisan Review ,
- Because it can be turned out mechanically, kitsch has become an integral part of our productive system in a way in which true culture could never be, except accidentally.
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* campAdjective
(en-adj)- Abe Lincoln, Paul Bunyan and kitsch souvenir coconut heads come across as icons of masculinity.
- I recognized her at once even though she wasn't wearing the tweed hunting outfit and the kitsch headwear.