El kitsch (/ˈkɪtʃ/) es un estilo artístico considerado «cursi» o «trillado». El estudio del kitsch se hizo casi exclusivamente en Alemania hasta los años setenta, y los académicos más importantes en este campo fueron Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) y Theodor Adorno (1903-1969). El kitsch alude a un tipo de relación estética del ser humano con las cosas o con el ambiente. Es un concepto universal y corresponde sobre todo a una época de génesis estética, a un estilo de ausencia de estilo, a una función de confort sobreañadida a las funciones tradicionales de un objeto. Es un «nada está de más» del progreso.

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Kitsch (/ˈkɪtʃ/; loanword from German, also called cheesiness and tackiness) is a low-brow style of mass-produced art or design using popular or cultural icons. The word was first applied to artwork that was a response to certain divisions of 19th-century art with aesthetics that favored what later art critics would consider to be exaggerated sentimentality and melodrama. Hence, 'kitsch art' is closely associated with 'sentimental art'. Kitsch is also related to the concept of camp, because of its humorous and ironic nature. To brand visual art as "kitsch" is generally pejorative, as it implies that the work in question is gaudy, or that it deserves a solely ornamental and decorative purpose rather than amounting to a work of true artistic merit. The chocolate box artist Thomas Kinkade (1958–2012), whose idyllic landscape scenes were often lampooned by art critics as "maudlin" and "schmaltzy", is considered a leading example of contemporary kitsch. The term is also sometimes applied to music.

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