1. Man I'm really tired of politics and drama, so let me make a mini thread on art and politics (wowzerz!!) This came from me watching a vid from @XELASOMA_ART called "artists are not special people".
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9. the culture indsutry has even imported the western and very bland definitions of beauty to the east for example. the zen and taoist painters were not these atomized artists rendering the full presence of beauty, but were immersed in spiritual practice through art.
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10. having studied this in grad school, the Japanese and Chinese did not even have an idea of aesthetic beauty until the late 19th century! (read the works of Francois Jullien) shout out to
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this is ironic considering anime weebs and niceposters obsess over Japanese art and "beauty", and how these neotinous anime girls are the "platonic form" of beauty, this is totally alien to classical Japanese art, anime is the hyper capitalist americanist version of east art,
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11. anime in many ways is a symptom of the mass culture industry smoothing out the cultural spaces of the world, what im really saying is that anime is just ORIENTALISM in more ways than one.
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