I've seen how Corporism often gets labelled as "outdated", "limiting", or "uninspired" even by Maestros. And my heart aches at how far it is from the truth. Even now I used a part of the body to express how I feel.
This medium is universal, everyone can grasp what it delivers, since everyone has a body. Existence precedes essence, doesn't it? We are given a body long before we shape our first coherent thought. And, what is most curious, this movement still evolves despite its fundamental universality. We all know that in the ancient rituals of mummification, brain matter was discarded as something useless, liquefied. Back then, a figurine who threw out their own brain could be perceived as a transcendent one — the one who got rid of a useless burden. Now, however, we would perceive it in a completely different manner: whether said figure was in pain, going insane, or striving for something much more. There was a time when balancing the four humors was considered the key to one's health. Yet, despite all the changes that have occurred, we still bear the legacy of previous visions and misconceptions, intertwining them into our newer picture.
There is no medium that does not deal with Corporism. Rayonism, Pointillism, Fauvism, Impressionism, or literally anything else. If a medium tries to depict something that breathes, it explores the world of Corporism. Poses, scars, the hyperbolisation of proportions — all of these are aspects of Corporism.
We feel the dread of Priscilla's scar upon her neck. We fear the heat of Joshua Graham's burns. We require no words to understand the gluttony and greed of Baron Harkonnen. We pity Alyonushka's loneliness depicted in the work of Vasnetsov.
To say that Corporism is outdated is the same as saying that life itself is outdated. It is the same as saying that a human being and their struggles are outdated. Anyone saying this might as well say that they are outdated themselves.
I am curious to hear where your personal dissatisfaction with Corporism comes from.