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Apr 11, 2011 · Life imposes by brute energy, like inarticulate thunder; art catches the ear, among the far louder noises of experience, like an air artificially made by a discreet musician (p. 182).
It is revolutionary when there is a well-represented film being made and especially when that film has a female authority to help keep the integrity. Literature and art with insufficient or poor representation of women can impair women’s progress in life.
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- Plato
- Aristotle
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Back to Plato, according to whom only ideas are real. Art is imitation, he said; it imitates the things we see around us. In their turn, these things are imitations of ideas, which, on the other hand, as well as real, are perfect and unchanging; they are the only reality and, if we wanted to know that reality, we would be able to do so only through...
Like Plato, Aristotle affirms that art is imitation. However, he has no moral condemnation of it. He argues that imitation underpins the way we learn. An essential part of our becoming morally virtuous, that is, of developing high moral standards, is the imitation of good deeds until we form a habit of it. As children, we imitate our parents and gu...
As we can see from what we’ve briefly gleamed in the above, the question of whether art as imitation is a good or bad thing is complex and multifaceted. While some argue that art simply reflects reality, others contend that it can distort our perception of the world. Regardless of where you stand on this debate, there are several books that can pro...
Sep 3, 2019 · Art imitates life in monotones. There are fifty shades of each colour and as many variations in sound. The degree of intensity in each gradation sets one work of art apart from another.
Over thousands of years and many cultural movements, the debate over whether art truly imitates life (or vice versa) has become virtually exhausted. From classical philosophy to contemporary studies, what exactly happens in the space between artist and viewer has remained ambiguous.
Life imposes by brute energy, like inarticulate thunder; art catches the ear, among the far louder noises of experience, like an air artificially made by a discreet musician (p. 182).
Life imitating art. Anti-mimesis is a philosophical position that holds the direct opposite of Aristotelian mimesis. Its most notable proponent is Oscar Wilde, who opined in his 1889 essay that, "Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life".
