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Modern art and visual media overall often seem to completely ignore phenotype and its contribution to immersion and realism within the medium if they don't straight up ignore even grossly obvious characteristics like skin colour. This leads to incoherent works, or a portfolio of similar faces devoid of differentiation or individuality. The reasons, of course, are obviously rooted in the predominant culture of racial nihilism - what is less obvious to me is why so few people notice there is something obviously wrong and incoherent within this unless they go looking for the signs? When I raise the issue (most frequently in the context of authors depicting characters of completely different origin with whom their features don't whatsoever add up, like north american North Atlantid actors playing slavs), many consider it a rebuttal that at least they're presented as the correct race. Which should be a bare minimum at the very bottom level of acceptability.
In regards to visual art, this has partly got to do with globalisation and diversification of the phenotypes the typical artist is presented with in his daily life - given that professional artists are more likely to come from urban areas or have spent a significant time in such to attend education or move there for work - they may even ignore what the dominant phenotypes in their home are and thus pay no attention to the differences if they happen to travel, either.
This obviously primarily regards the West.
Do you mind a lack of knowledge of phenotypes in visual media? Do you notice it very quickly and automatically?
Do you think a level of awareness of it should be encouraged, if not even formally taught if one wishes to pursue an education in art?
Feel free to include examples of works that circumvent this and do it right despite having every opportunity for error, or comment on ones that failed to do so (such as every popular fantasy work in the recent years).
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