Kitsch

german term for artworks without any aesthetic value, pretentious and of poor taste - sometimes employed als element of pop art - to compare with buckeye , banal art and calendar painting 

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This term refers to the "low-art" artifacts of everyday life. Paintings of Elvis on velvet, lamps from the statue of David, and clocks in statues of Budda. The term comes from the German verkitschen meaning "to make cheap." It has been made popular in the years since the beginning of pop art. These objects are now revered by collectors as "camp" making low art into high art.