Also, I am not fond of reinterpretations where a modern too lazy to invent his/her own characters [ or develop, indeed, the artist's own character ], remakes the previous body twisted in the prism of their artist's own psychosexual obsessions, including feminism or any of the deviancies imaginable [ see the detective Sherlock Holmes or Alice in Wonderland ]; but this is traditional art: portraying the characters and time as the artist sees them, just as mediaevals painted the Romans or Jesus in the modern garb of their own time.
I've honestly no idea if this happened in other art traditions to the West; or since the timeless quality of Chinese life --- Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay --- with little invention or change ( which was very comforting actually ) meant painting a 9th century sage in the clothes of the 17th century in no way distorted reality [ as did showing Roman soldiers in Sallets or Morions ].
Lazy or desperate for attention? The market is saturated. It seems like the only things able (or allowed) to rise to prominence are the familiar or twisted mockeries.
