It truly makes one ponder.

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>Japan
Every time.

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Europe
>Europeans all stylistically identical
>no innovation
>you can hardly tell one country's from another, they lack any soul or meaningful difference

Japan
>Utterly unique
>highly divergent compared to other Asian styles
>when you see it, you say "yep, that's definitely Japan" whereas Europe's are muddy and international with no reflection of the country's spirit

Japan wins again as usual

Did 'realism' as an art movement and 'rationalism' go hand in hand?

>>2343398
This is your mind on leftism, when being "unique" and "different" is valued more than decent craftsmanship.

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>>2343398
>Europe
>>no innovation
What did he mean by this

>>2343442
He means his butt smells and he wants to tell his sempi how much it smells but is too scared to.

>>2343430
STFU Trumpanzee go back to poo flinging on /pol/

Freshness and originality > autistic attention to mindless detail

every single time

>>2343454
>Freshness and originality > autistic attention to mindless detail
Something that European art had in plenty.

>>2343454
>originality
>Asia
I guess this is why Asia is known as the continent with literally zero innovation and just shamelessly copying the West in everything.

And you're still wrong, doodling a stick figure of Donald Trump with your poop is technically more original than painting an image with Rembrandt's technique but it's hardly more valuable.

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>>2343459
>Something that European art had in plenty.
which were also bemoaned in their time for not adhering to old fashioned sensibilities and took later generations to truly appreciate.
>>2343463
>I guess this is why Asia is known as the continent with literally zero innovation and just shamelessly copying the West in everything.
I guess this is why Trumpanzees are known for being narrow minded retards who obediently regurgitate stereotypes without bothering to do any corroborating research
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_science_and_technology_in_China

>>2343474
>most populated country in human history
>existing literally since fucking prehistory
And yet there's like 5 or so things they actually contributed to the world - compass, noodles, gunpowder, paper and the bubonic plague. Literally fucking Germany alone invented more shit than the entirety of East Asia combined.

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>>2343398
>highly divergent compared to other Asian styles
Hmm

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>>2343347
I unironically think the japanese aesthetic isn't any less interesting or impressive than european neoclassicism of the same time period. they're the only non-western cultural identity I would say that about, too. it's hard to see without the big picture that is japanese culture as a whole. their artwork, clothing, architecture, everything comes together and creates a universal and cozy aesthetic. haven't had much of that in the west since ancient mediterranean times.

why do leftists hate white people so much?

>>2343569
Yes, how fucking dare they express their subjective preference of art that isn't european, fucking racetratior cucks amirite /pol/bros!??!?!

>Europe
Paintings for the wealthy and the church
>Japan
Mass-produced printed art for the masses

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Modern European Art

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Modern Japanese Art

>>2343430
let me guess, you think Bob Ross makes true art

>>2343493
>a few very specific instances of mixed cultures is representative of an entire fucking nation

>>2343493
Now now, lets be fair japs copied some of those from koreans who had copied them from the chinese.

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This pretty much surpasses anything Japan has ever done in terms of art

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>>2344564
It surpasses anything anyone has ever done though, so it's not really fair to Japan.

>>2343347
Japan is a meme civilization

>>2344564
Boring We-wuzing.

>>2343347
Like 10 years ago when I first saw this pic it made me think France was like that in the 18th century

>>2343430
>This is your mind on leftism, when being "unique" and "different" is valued more than decent craftsmanship.

Lay people are always impressed by toil and mistake this for the artistic process.

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Time to post this. The left is western and the right is Japan. It's just the difference of how to see the reality. Japan is more symbolic.

>>2343430
Welcome to post-moderism. Shouldn't have invented the hydrogen bomb

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>>2343527
Me too.
Also, >>2343347
you give one example of one closeup that depicts a Kabuki actor making a face. How is that fair?
You can't shit on a huge tradition of woodblock printing by judging from one image.

>>2344527
Please see>>2343398

>>2344590
but they literally wuz, that's the difference

>>2343749
>cherry picking
Your anime is copied off the style of American cartoonist FYI.

>>2345161
>cherrypicking
And the maymay in the OP isn't?

>>2343398
This.

>>2345165
Japan seems to have had a style slimier to Medieval Europeans or Post-Orthodox Eastern Romans i.e. they could have drawn more realistic but chose not to for artistic reasons. I'm not the OP and disagree with his sediment, but your example is particularly egregious.

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>>2343398
>Europeans all stylistically identical
Just because you're ignorant of these differences doesn't mean they don't exist

>>2343594
>t. Triggered anti-white

>>2343493
>Tang china == all of china throughout history

No?

>>2343493
he meant to say "derivative" not "divergent"

>>2343749
I don't know why but I actually like this.

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>>2343398

Underrated comment.

Most Europeans just copied each other's style of music/art/architecture. Put them in the same room and you'd have trouble telling them apart. Not to mention that perhaps while the Mediterranean had some impressive civilisations, Western, Eastern Europe and Scandinavia were no better than Sub-Sahara Africa.

Japanese-style tried to integrate their architecture to nature. Probably something having to do with Japan's nature and geography being more vibrant in terms of colour than the Mediterranean. So there wasn't that much effort to improve on the intricacy of architecture, but more effort was made to integrate an already very beautiful scenery with architecture.

Furthermore, the average house during the Edo period seemed better compared to the average house during the Roman period where commoners were often squeezed into apartments. Rome wasn't great unless you were rich.