A small tableau of dogs playing pool echoes the well-known kitschy painting of dogs playing poker.

Behind the mosque was a small square with yet more cafes and displays of horribly kitschy paintings.

Larry even brings Callas to Michael's loft, where she oohs and aahs over his dreadful, kitschy paintings.

It has been glorified by masterpieces as well as by kitschy paintings throughout the history of art.

For the moment she is concentrating on small, sweetly kitschy paintings that like her scatter pieces combine references to culture high and low and times past and present in an atmosphere of adolescent fantasy.

The Cosmo Coffee Shop might have been lifted out of working-class Brno or Budapest, with its fake wood paneling and kitschy paintings.

The jigsaw puzzles are presented as completed pictures, and touring this gallery is somewhat like touring a provincial art museum with a lot of kitschy paintings in its collection.

Old framed Italian family photographs from Archives, a company in Providence, R.I., line the walls, and there are other deft visual references like wooden Venetian blinds and kitschy paintings of Venice.

The walls are decorated with kitschy German paintings, the ambiance is old-fashioned, the waiters are friendly to children.