Recommended for people who cannot appreciate paintings unless there are anime girls.
[Images: DreamNews | Wiki | Wiki]
#/media/File:Johannes_Vermeer_-_Het_melkmeisje_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg){kind=link}
Titled Eshi de Irodoru Sekai no Meiga (loosely, World Famous Masterpieces Painted by Artists) and published in Japan, this new book features famous paintings reinterpreted with anime girls.
According to DreamNews, a variety of Japanese manga, anime and video game artists participated, including Shiro of Encouragement of Climb fame, Kazuharu Kina and Medabots manga artist Horumarin. These are talented folks, sure, but their styles don’t always suit the works they’re reimagining.
For example, here is Manet’s original masterpiece A Bar at the Folies-Bergère:
[Image: Wiki]
And the anime girl version:
[Image: DreamNews]
The nuts-and-bolts art history mentioned in the book seems OK, but here, changing the image so drastically undermines much of the original work’s meaning, context and history.
[Image: Wiki]
Ditto for anime style take on Vermeer’s The Milkmaid.
[Image: DreamNews]
It completely ignores the quiet dignity of the original, especially how it didn’t sexualise its subject like other milkmaid paintings of that time.
[Image: DreamNews]
Anime style Monet.
[Image: DreamNews]
Well. Then.
[Image: DreamNews]
This is one of the better ones. The cat is more prominent in the anime girl version than in Toulouse-Lautrec’s original, which drew on influences from Japanese art. Seeing a modern Japanese take on his work is fascinating.
Eshi de Irodoru Sekai no Meiga isn’t a super serious look at European art, but it doesn’t pretend to be. The interpretations are all over the place and might evoke eye-rolling, but also, hopefully, further study of the original works.
[Image: DreamNews]
Comments
One response to “Anime Makeovers For Famous European Art ”
Why at now stage was there even a tiny piece of recognition of the art work created? Irrespective of whether you think its an accurate representation of the original works, its still art unto itself.
Just because its a ‘cover’ of the older work, no need to treat it so negatively.
I like it. More anime girls can never be a bad thing 🙂