It's the gaudy entertainment for the masses.

那是百姓们消遣之物。

She sat between richly dressed women who were there to spend the day eating sweets and showing off their costly clothing.

她被领到一个座位坐下，两边是一些穿着漂亮衣人，她们都是去那里消磨时间，吃糖果，炫耀她们衣着。

All right. Well, don't get anything too garish.

好吧 别买太花哨。

Otherwise a tacky velvet painting could be equated to a Rembrandt.

否则，天鹅绒画亦可 等同于伦伯朗杰作。

Painters with taste will trust their eye to tell them what needs to be on the canvas and what doesn't; a painter without taste will give us a landscape that's too pretty, or too cluttered, or too gaudy—anyway, too something.

有品味画家会相信自己眼睛，告诉他们什么应该出现在画布上，什么不该出现；而缺乏品味画家则会呈现给我们一幅过于美丽、过于杂乱或过于风景——总之，就是过于什么。