Alabaster no Kisetsu - Vol. 3 Ch. 14 - Summer Cold

[MangaDex]

 

[Mangamoz]

Damn, the child prostitution drama got swepped under the rug so hard that it burned the rug right off the floor.

Author must have gotten slapped until bloody by their editor.

 

[Hamdan07a]

Damn, the child prostitution drama got swepped under the rug so hard that it burned the rug right off the floor.

Author must have gotten slapped until bloody by their editor.

Yeah, and her friends forgot about what happened and they go to a field trip like nothing happened.

 

[Mangamoz]

Yeah, and her friends forgot about what happened and they go to a field trip like nothing happened.

I will be surprised if it is ever mentioned again at all.

I legit think the author got a call from their editors, cause they IMMEDIETLY rushed to end that arc the next chap.

Something tells me it is gonna get memory holed.

 

[Doomroar]

Is ok miss show him some titties and he will go back crawling to you and forget about learning the very basics of drawing

Who needs things like color theory when we have nipples anyway? one is boring books, the other is fun with your teacher!

 

[Darklight99]

Did the author seriously drop the biggest bomb possible and then said to forget about it and moved on to something completely different?

 

[outinthegardener]

Just a guess as to what was meant about "fuugo disease." My experience going through art school, was to be shown a specific canon of famous artists. They were our examples of what serious art was. It was all very eurocentric and representative, until modernism threw out representation as a goal. The things we were told to read were very philosophical, and the way artists wrote about their own work was just as wordy and concept-minded. Art after 1960 felt like intellectual puzzles to be solved and show off how clever you were.

For art schools to "belong" among academia instead of technical schools, they had to pretend to be philosophers too. And what got lost was that outside of art school academics, no one stands in front of a painting and does philosophy. They feel it out, they enjoy the sensation of it, they laugh at the dumb jokes. It's why people hate Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst, a lot of art that gets made is shit commodity work that sells (or worse, is advertising) and the closest thing to true art for the people is Memes.

So yeah, if Sakurasaki had the same experience I did, she means whatever academic disciplines Fuugo tries to teach, won't have any human personality in it. Everything he told Gin about color and atmosphere and focal points does make for better landscapes, but also, so what it's another fuckin' landscape.

Don't go to art school, go out and live and read five hundred books and look at the world around you. That's worth more than any MFA. Unless your MFA is Yale and they're introducing you to billionaire collectors. Get that lazy bank.

 

[3141592653589]

There's something kind of incongruous about having a 3-page pseudo-lecture on the finer points of color theory in a black-and-white medium.

Also gotta say I really can't disagree with Fuugo's disapproval of his former student's teaching methods. She just kinda takes her clothes off in front of a teenager and figures that everything will work itself out somehow, and then an actual art teacher shows up and is like "Look, I just low-key blew that kid's mind a little when I told him that color temperature exists and showed him that you could make green by mixing blue and yellow. That shit is absolutely not just working itself out."

 

[jonnywarlock]

No Maki at all this chapter, eh? I guess with her storyline getting torpedoed, and her not really being THAT into art to begin with, it makes sense that she'd prolly beg off from this competition.

I do like how the art club is acting like an actual art club now, though.

 

[aveney41]

The prior drama just being nuked is jarring but is wholly welcomed by me. That was not what I wanted it off this at all. This was nice. I like the true at club feel. Though I wonder if the whole swimsuit talk throws away the nudity thing.

 

[bishbosh_91]

Thanks Daphie

 

[Soneca]

Thank you very much for the scanlation.

I think the 'Fuugo disease' may be something more akin to obsessiveness with technical skill and a directly competitive mindset, where you may either want to come out on top of everyone else or prove something to other people.

The drama with Maki may not be necessarily over yet considering this was a field trip for the art club and she didn't go with them, with the changes the club had to be more art focused and less laid back she was starting to feel like an outcast and this hasn't been addressed yet (and it'll probably be difficult for her, I don't remember seeing her paint or draw, as she was more focused on sculpting with acrylic clay).

The drama with her relationship with the teacher in itself though may really been pushed aside, it was being used as a parallel to the relationship Gin and Sakura had and the situation about the nude modeling may've been considered dealt with, and the teacher may not come back as his reputation and job are gone, and he'll likely face criminal charges (with, considering how Japan has a culture of sweeping this kind of trouble under the rug to keep perfect records, he'll likely only get a fine and be pushed to relocate somewhere else), but he may be brought back at some point by the author, though I find that unlikely.

Anyway, great chapter, I had a lot of fun reading it. Really looking forward to what comes next.

 

[Kushikime]

Seems to be two separate ways of thinking and she had a bad experience so refers to it as a disease. He’s been infected with prizes and recognition when it seems she draws for the love of drawing. I hope I’m reading into this right but I don’t know

 

[potatoawards]

And they acted like the previous chap wasn't real to the point of Maki not even being part of the art club stuff anymore

Sigh.... I really enjoy this series but the author doing what they did def ruined the quality for me, not gonna drop it like i said i would, but i won't hold it to the high standards i used it

 

[Joe10]

I hope Gin can remain appreciative of sensei's methods and mindset while taking on board the benificial parts of the Fuugo side of things.

As for the conclusion of the Maki prostitution business I agree with what others have said; it was too jarring and abrupt.
But I don't read this for Maki or any other side character; I read it for lovely relationship the main two have. So I am not too bothered, espicially if it was editorial interference. About the only thing I liked was how Gin quickly and directly came to the defense of Sakurasaki and the relationship they have.

I liked sensei's cute dork bug catching attempt.

 

[Hootanic]

"Fuugo Disease" may be a side reference to the works of Fuuga, another mangaka who has a ton of works (on this site too) where they interweave - a "Fuugaverse" if you will - that range the gamut of fluffy vanilla, to incest, to rape and murder... some truly bonkers stuff that Fuuga

 

[Grye]

Fuck it we have amnesia

 

[mug3n]

t's why people hate Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst, a lot of art that gets made is shit commodity work that sells (or worse, is advertising) and the closest thing to true art for the people is Memes.

The wet lips wanker of the war on christmas videos and all that jazz got mad at Duchamp's Fountain. It's been 100 years and blockheads are still mad at Duchamp for presenting an urinal, it's so good.

I think this was to present a more orderly way compared to Sakura and I think Gin might take a hint or 2 to better himself. One thing that Sakura gives me is she maybe too lax and this chapter it's a way to make the juxstaposition of both ways of doing thing. We have to think that japanese like their order, rules and doing things the proper way like having 3 meals a day, we aren't getting the ""true"" artist lifestyle of doing your thing if you can or feel inspired and getting on opium or absenthe the rest of the time.

 

[outinthegardener]

The wet lips wanker of the war on christmas videos and all that jazz got mad at Duchamp's Fountain. It's been 100 years and blockheads are still mad at Duchamp for presenting an urinal, it's so good.

I think this was a way to present a more orderly way compared to Sakura and I thing Gin might take a hint or 2 to better himself. One thing that Sakura gives me is she maybe too lax and this chapter it's a way to make the juxstaposition of both ways of doing thing. We have to think that japanese like their order, rules and doing things the proper way like having 3 meals a day, we aren't getting the ""true"" artist lifestyle of doing your thing if you can or feel inspired and getting on opium or absenthe the rest of the time.

haha yeah, people who get upset at Fountain are probably the same people who think the only acceptable art is realistic paintings of castles and horses. It's such a simple and brilliant work but it still flies over people's heads.

The question is "who is this art for? What is art meant to do?" Fuugo's advice to Gin was all based on how to portray the landscape with more realism. Sakura is more invested in conveying meaning. Both positions are subjectively reasonable, though I tend to find Sakura's goals more rewarding.

I know I was dissing those who "do philosophy about art" but I do think everyone should read Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

 

[mug3n]

haha yeah, people who get upset at Fountain are probably the same people who think the only acceptable art is realistic paintings of castles and horses. It's such a simple and brilliant work but it still flies over people's heads.

The question is "who is this art for? What is art meant to do?" Fuugo's advice to Gin was all based on how to portray the landscape with more realism. Sakura is more invested in conveying meaning. Both positions are subjectively reasonable, though I tend to find Sakura's goals more rewarding.

I know I was dissing those who "do philosophy about art" but I do think everyone should read Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

I think philosophy in the arts has been totally sabotaged by both the retvrn freaks and the money launderers because they need affirmation to keep sabotaging the arts for their shitty behaviour and ulterior motives. As you said before. art more times than we realize doesn't really need a supporting background of deep thinking.

I think in both cases presented are good, let's see what the kids do. I'm more intrigued about Maki now, now her little party has crashed and she doesn't have any real reason to be around, it would be interesting to see what the author has in for the plastic arts and DIY, this manga has been too much focused on drawing and painting.