Random Analogies
Japanese Aesthetic Influence
a: Manga influence ~
b: Japanese prints influence on impressionism
What: Currently many in the comic book world are aware of the influence that Manga has had on English graphic novels. But this is not the first wave of aesthetic influence that Japanese art has had on Western culture. Many impressionist artist were tremendously influenced by Japanese block prints in the mid to late 19th Century.
There is a even a word for this process: Japonism.
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Writer: mattyflynn
LCC: BH
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Date: Oct 15 2010 6:25 AM
# 633 Critique Analogy
La As Toliet
a: Los angeles ~
b: a great big toilet
What: "Los Angeles is like a great big toilet bowl that needs a good flush."
I've been saying this for years.
Finally someone is listening.
Now if I can just convince the rest of you to annex it & Arizona to
Mexico.
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Writer: Wyle Coyote
LCC:
Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: May 7 2012 6:09 PM
# 2026 Critique Analogy
a: happy marriage ~
b: caring for a plant or a pet
What:
"Sustaining a happy marriage is like caring for a plant or a pet. Your needs as well as your partner's change from age to age and you have to work on the
marriage constantly, day by day, or else it will deteriorate,"
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Writer: Not Stated
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Date: Apr 15 2014 2:05 PM
# 5426 Critique Analogy
a: Homosexuality ~
b: Feminism
What:
"Homosexuality is, like Feminism, a crime against Patriarchy. Homosexuality too reveals gender stereotypes to be not natural but a Patriarchal construct."
"Because like feminism, homosexuality too doesn't fit into the idea of macho, aggressive, male-bonding, controlling men and submissive, obedient women who hate other women and whose sole goal in life is to find a man who would be willing to marry them."
Useful?
Writer: Not Stated
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Where:
Date: Jul 24 2014 10:11 AM
# 5926 Critique Analogy
