The Overview of an Article about Japanese Animation - Essay Example

Summary The article starts with a sort of story and this continues for a while but at the end of the paragraph comes the thesis statement which explicitly enables the reader to know that the article will be discussing how Japan has animated the western ways of imagination and even some aspects of its art culture (Napier, 20). The above thesis is backed up by the art work of Monet’s La Japonaise where even though it has a bit of Japanese theme based on clothing, the other impressionists are all western.

This is a new thing in the Japanese art. This is evidence of the painting is also in coincidence with the films and other art work by the Japanese whose direction has changed from purely Japanese themes to a mixture of Japanese and western ideas. Questions and even answers about more evidence of this thesis statement and in support of the article are found further in the article. The author also specifies the time changes of these art impressions and direction and hence anyone with more questions can check this up against historical books.

The explicit explanations offered by the author about this subject of discussion leaves the audience satisfied and with no further questions or doubt in mind. The author’s discussion about the change in direction of Japanese art and also the pictorial evidence makes me agree with her about the topic. I however do not agree with her argument that Japanese culture and art still have great influence over the western type of art since the 19th Century to date as there is not enough evidence of that in the western art and even culture.

, but the opposite is true for Japanese culture having a lot of western cultural ideas in it (Napier, 27). Work Cited Napier, Susan. From Impressionism to Anime: Japan as Fantasy and Fan Cult in the Mind of the West. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.