Plato said that works of art are imitations of reality, and something like this defintion went mostly unchallenged for a few thousand years, until it was rejected by the Romantics, who said instead that art was an outpouring of the soul’s passion: expression, not imitation.
“An atmosphere of artistic theory”
“An atmosphere of artistic theory”
“An atmosphere of artistic theory”
Plato said that works of art are imitations of reality, and something like this defintion went mostly unchallenged for a few thousand years, until it was rejected by the Romantics, who said instead that art was an outpouring of the soul’s passion: expression, not imitation.