There are some who have the capacity to render these abstracts into a meaningful form. They choose their medium based on a predisposition or talent, or are moved by an inherent need to filter their experience through a certain human expression. Some have the gift of music or dance, of words and still others of art. Art is not kitsch. That is, art rejects the saccharine, the maudlin and sentimental.
Television advertising is a prime example of American kitsch.
As if the very thought of cotton fabric could bring a viewing audience into a state of emotional rapture or the vision of a child sipping a container of orange juice on a porch swing might swell the hearts of the most hardened criminal. Kitsch is a lie as it fails to acknowledge human weakness or the texture of human experience. And as Kundera noted, there is communist, fascist, Catholic, Jewish, Protestant, European and American kitsch. There is political kitsch. President worship is a form of American political kitsch.