In the mid-1990s, when singer David Young moved into Hancock Park, a quiet, affluent neighborhood in Los Angeles, he painted the house and gate white and lined the front lawn with nineteen white replicas of Michelangelo's David (1501-1504). While Young had personal reasons for installing them that speak to his genuine appreciation for this piece, his neighbors did not appreciate his use of ____________ in postmodern architecture.

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Kitsch refers to art or objects that are considered to be in poor taste or overly garish. The use of nineteen replicas of Michelangelo's David in a residential front lawn could be seen as excessive and inappropriate by the neighbors, thus making it an example of kitsch in postmodern architecture.

In the Mid-1990s, When Singer David Young Moved into Hancock