One other thing that's related to Japanese 101 and my study of the language and culture is my love for some of the modern and traditional styles of art seen in a lot of Japanese anime and video games today. Its a hard thing to describe but one of my all time favorite examples of a modern fusion of traditional and contemporary Japanese art styles is the Japanese RPG game Okami. Not only is it a FANTASTIC game. (I'd recommend it to anyone :) ) but its some of my favorite artistic visual work to date.
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| The dark stylized lines are really pretty and inspiring to me as a developing artist myself.! |
This is more of an example of the art in-game which is great but the really gorgeous stuff is the more traditional versions the creators also did to supplement it...
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| One of the typical pieces you'd see on a loading screen or start menue. |
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| The game itself is meant to be based off of Traditional Watercolor Techniques |
I really love the use of line and color and the way games like these try to fuse traditional and modern art styles!
So I guess you could say art is one of the parts of Japanese culture today that I really appreciate, and that it helps motivate me to learn the language as best I can.
げいじゅつ が 大すき です!
Do you draw? You should post some of your own art!
ReplyDeleteわたしも 日本の絵画が好きです, especially the ones in Spirited Away!
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