/lit/ - Literature

>>19916134
They're substantial too, don't get me wrong. But Asian culture in general lacks some element that Western art has, that it had back in Ancient Greece and still has now. Asian art seems to be about spectacle - about wonder, aesthetics, and natural beauty - while Western art is more about human nature and finding meaning. Classical East Asian art like woodblock prints usually focus more on nature than mankind, whereas in the West basically every famous work of art has a human subject up until Impressionism. Western drama's innovations are generally incorporeal, focusing on the writing and realism in the acting, while Eastern drama's innovations seem more based in spectacle, adding new dimensions to the stage and so on.

And I think this is a pretty valid idea even now. When you look at what trends are taking over Asia, it's stuff like kpop, gacha, and anime. To me, this stuff all looks really shallow. But I guess the point is that spectacle = substance for them. Yes, it's oversimplifying, but broadly? I think it's accurate.