When I was an art student in Romania, we talked about a certain type of painting as “seashore”. There were painters on the seashore that painted a type of kitschy landscapes in very garish colours. So we used this term in a disparaging way to refer to paintings that we thought exemplified kitsch.
I made my own seashore painting on my last day here on PE…
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