weird how basically no living "modern artist" will be immortalized in the canon of art history but anime will be
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modern art is about statement and abstraction, but doesn't have much to say after duchamp and warhol, can hardly abstract more than pollock or mondrian
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most people have an instinctive sense that things like koons's balloon dogs or weiwei's vase thing or hirst's shark or whatever are stupid
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even if the people who say they like/appreciate/understand these things aren't lying as part of status games, it's still overclever and ugly, intellectual masturbation
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whereas anime for better or worse excites the passions, has an unironic sense of beauty that is completely absent from the art world
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and it's a singular style in which many work, readily identifiable and with its own conventions, which makes it coherent to describe as a movement
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I once read someone argue that comic books might’ve been what kept representational art alive during the 20th century. (Tbf, this was in a comic book — the artist drew himself as the narrator saying this in front of the Guggenheim museum)
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Comics are shit lol rt
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