Talk:Japanese art

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thread_title: File:Byodoin Phoenix Hall Uji 2009.jpg Nominated for Deletion

message: The article is currently C-rated according to the attached template on the talk page here, which is about right, but somehow is given an "A rating" on the Wikiproject japan which puzzles me. </br>
The article needs to be retooled so it actually talks about art.  The current lede paragraphs merely gives Japanese general history 101 and needs to be more focused on art. That much of Japanese culture has roots on the continent is generally known, so the article needs to state this more succicinctly and relegate elaborating on them to off-pages like Silk Road transmission of Buddhism, and get to the point and start 'Xplaining what Japanese art Japanese reasonably pronto. </br>
This same criticism seems to apply to the body of the article as well. I'll go ahead and replace Kofun photo with a bronze mirror, for starters. </br>
Gandhara art being a must-mention keyword in regards to influence, I have issues with the article apparently replacing it with the phrase Greco-Buddhist Art (to which it redirects). An article on Japanese art art need not reach back to Hellenistic influences (Like being done on Niō page) except as a really minor issue, after description of more directly pertinent material has been, well, not exhausted but given substantially.  who is apparently a senior fellow at the Ancient Orient Museum. --Kiyoweap (talk) 07:01, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Does not explain Japanese art 

message: For those of you who want to use "Acercamiento a la influencia del movimiento muralista mexicano en el arte contemporáneo de Japón" from UNAM as a source, this looks like a translation from Japanese to Spanish. To get the full meaning you can paste in the Spanish sentences you are citing and have translations provided. Then you can ask a Japanese speaker to look in the Japanese section and find any equivalent sentences in Japanese. See if the Japanese sentences have a slightly different meaning in English. The reason why I suggest this is that the sources may be more distorted when you go from Japanese to Spanish to English instead of directly going from Japanese to English.
If there are notes/captions only in Spanish then it's okay to directly cite those.
WhisperToMe (talk) 23:56, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Instructions on using "Acercamiento a la influencia del movimiento muralista mexicano en el arte contemporáneo de Japón." as a source 

message: Hi, Help needed from experts in Japanese and Chinese arts to review all these (1653 files today). Thanks, Yann (talk) 13:57, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:c:Category:Files from the San Diego Museum of Art to be checked]] 

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message: This article has a similar problem to what plagued the Japonisme article, so I'll repeat what I said on the Talk page there. I get that articles about the visual arts need a lot of images, and are a great opportunity to show off images that have been shared with us thanks to GLAM partnerships. However, in some articles galleries are over-used in a way that detracts from the article, and the present state of this article is an example. Right now,  has two large galleries early on that break up the flow of text. Again, images are good but they aren't a substitute for narrative text that actually tells the story of Japanese art. So I'll be bold to cut down the image galleries. MartinPoulter (talk) 18:22, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Please don't! Some trimming is ok, say to four per mini-gallery, and some images can be moved to text sections without them, but in general the gallery images seem better selected and captioned than those in the main text, many of which are absolutely awful in every way. Galleries are the least of the image problems here. Johnbod (talk) 18:26, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi John, I thought it looked a lot better without the galleries but having seen your reply I've reverted my latest edit. I'll let you weigh in on whether we need all five images of Yayoi art when we have just two sentences on the topic. I agree that there are deep problems with the article, and this use of galleries is not the greatest of them, but it looked the most immediate to fix. There's already a gallery in the Dogū article, so I've cut down the dogu images and pasted in some text from that article for what I hope is clearly a better balance. MartinPoulter (talk) 18:44, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

text: P.S. I urge other editors especially to consider how this article looks not just on their desktop monitor with a wide monitor, but how it looks on narrow screens, where a gallery can easily take up multiple screenfuls so introduce a considerable break to reading the article text. MartinPoulter (talk) 18:48, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

text: As I said, 4 per mini-gallery is a reasonable compromise. And really we need more text rather than fewer images. Johnbod (talk) 00:11, 25 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Excessive galleries 

message: Hi again, John. Looking at this edit it's not cut-and-dried that your reversion improved the article. User:ConnorReidVinson's edit truncated the list of art forms but the "Japanese art is typically categorized with the historical period it falls under. There are 11 periods traditionally associated..." seems to be a useful piece of context for the lead and was backed up with a cited reliable source. We can see that User:ConnorReidVinson is a new editor doing an educational assignment, so I suggest in the spirit of avoiding newbie-biting it's not enough to revert their contribution with a "sorry!" Connor, thanks for your attempts to improve the article. Given that some edits might be controversial, I suggest proposing changes here on the Talk page and I hope other editors including Johnbod and myself can give helpful, discursive feedback. MartinPoulter (talk) 13:15, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edits to lead 

message: It seems the information on the article comes from reliable resources. Sayuri422 (talk) 08:59, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  The references in each paragraph 

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