Is there any reason for why Japanese screens always portray people as if they're losing their shit?
Japanese art uses a lot of exaggeration. Especially when it comes to expression. They use a lot of extremes and it can be seen in a bit of their culture as well.
One lesson to learn is the inherent difference between how we view balance in the west and how they view balance. To us when you have two extremes, finding balance means meeting in the middle to find harmony. While in Japanese culture it's about representing both extremes at the same time and they will find balance in juxtaposition.
Because of this you find a seemingly strange and almost contradictory culture in Japan on every side of any given view.
But i guess that's a little off topic. The point is, Nips don't do things in half measures. To express themselves in any form of art, extremes are used to express themselves. Which is in contrast to how they display themselves in public. Once again, juxtaposition.
If you pay attention to japanese poetry and theater you'll find the same trend as in their paintings.
Actually i know the answer to this, there is a specific expression for valor in eastern culture. Bulging eyes and general angry expression.
KU--------!!!KUNEKANEWA!!!!!
Anime is such an animeme
>>961993
*do-do*
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>>962238
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1wcuoxs4mU
>>962032
This is fucking bullshit. They have 0 extremes in their work. All their aesthetic concepts and techniques are about insane amounts of subtlety and ambiguity.
Real answer is: the stuff OP is referring to are depictions from the tale of heike, their civil war period. It was a violent fucked up time so they depict it that way. It is a common subject but it doesn't represent their whole tradition by far. See yoshitoshi or hiroshige for more subtle expressions.
>>962372
That's a whole lot of subtlety and ambiguity.
>>961993
いい絵,何!!!!
