>>10739420>I think Metamodernism is at this point a reaction to Postmodernism. It's basically pointing out the idiocy of deconstructing traditional values because they're arbitrary or subjective without instituting something in their place. Traditional values can be justified pragmatically rather than accepted a-priori, and that's what Metamodernism does—it's asserting traditional values from a Modern/Postmodern framework via pragmatism. I'm not sure that this will be the movement that restores Europe to glory but it's laying the groundwork for future movements at the very least because it's showing that we can synthesize the past with the present to move forward. I guess that's the Hegelian dialectic in a nutshell, lol. I didn't even mean to take it there, I just made that connection.When you think about it that way, the anime art you describe is basically a glimpse at how Western art might have turned out if we didn't throw out everything for the sake of post-modernism/deconstruction, anime art is in a way a blend of traditional and post-modern a new synthesis, a new direction to go, whereas most post-modern art is a different, bleaker and less appealing direction when in comparison to anime art.
Of course, there are western artists not drawing any anime that still adhere to more classic and traditional ideas of art, as well as appreciation and admiration of beauty, but far less so than in anime art however even then it tends to focus more on realism whereas the anime art has totally embraced fantasy > realism as a statement, reflected in the idealized depictions of beauty in their art. This reflects a general tendency in Western vs. Eastern (Japanese) media, the former prioritizes realism, the latter prioritizes fantasy and idealism, this distinction is clearly visible in comparing typical American vs Japanese media and I think is a relevant cultural factor related to why anime art is what it is.
This is not something relatively new either, see pic related
