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A community for sharing and discussing art, aesthetics, and music relating to '80s, '90s, and '00s retro microgenres and also art in general now!

Some cool genres and aesthetics include:

outrun
vaporwave
mallsoft
future funk
city pop
synthwave
laborwave

If you are unsure if a piece of media is on theme for this community, you can make a post asking if it fits. Discussion posts are encouraged, and particularly interesting topics will get pinned periodically.

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[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Is that digitally constrained art? Or is it a traditional painting (in acrylics?) on canvas that's faux digitally constrained art?

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I thought they were recent but he painted them in the 1980s.

The sun-drenched Americana of Japanese artist Hiroshi Nagai

Nagai came to prominence in the early ’80s, providing work for labels like Moon, and Niagara, defining the aesthetic of the [Japanese city pop music] genre in the process.