19 Sep 11:42
--That is insanely creepy
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19 Sep 10:23
--I'm laughing right now... there are some cool artists I thought were Japanese but don't feel like it as much in their work, so I went to look at their Pixiv to make sure... both are from China.
19 Sep 10:21
--Yeah they definitely are about progress...I think it has to do with having to rebuild and remold themselves after WW2. Then again Korea is one of the most advanced progressive (tech. wise) nations on the planet, perhaps even more so than Japan. China is a massive behemoth with so much history and culture that it is easy to see why that comes through in the stereotypes.
19 Sep 10:17
--When I thought about it, it was kind of true. It seems like a lot of Japanese art has a lot of modern...ness in it
19 Sep 10:16
--China had a floaty ethereal goddess type character, Korea had a really spunky looking fighter-type girl, and Japan... a girl in a school uniform lol
19 Sep 10:15
--Haha I once saw an image, probably mostly a joke, comparing art from China, Korea and Japan
19 Sep 10:14
--That's the quality I notice first in most of them for sure, then lovely saturation and then the design and mythic feels.
19 Sep 10:13
--I get the feeling these guys/gals paint more from life as well? Might be totally wrong
19 Sep 10:11
--Western culture seems to be reduced to technology and obsessions with botoxed morons
19 Sep 10:10
--NP mimi. There tends to be a richer spiritual mythology that still exists and is built into contemporary asian culture, perhaps that is what you are also picking up on?
19 Sep 10:02
--For some reason most of the art that I fall in love with comes from Asia. A lot of Western artists, I like, but I'm not completely smitten by them. I think there must be a subtle difference in aesthetic preferences between them
19 Sep 08:27
--Yep, inks generally, but done in the style of water colour.. I would /love/ to get my mitts on some rice paper, apparently it's lovely to paint on with ink
19 Sep 08:03
--I love watching watercolouring the traditional Chinese style with a sumi brush.. it's done with such confident minimal strokes.. really beautiful to watch
19 Sep 07:56
--I had the benefit of learning a tiny bit of Mandarin once. I quite like the language.