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The questioning of mimesis

The questioning of mimesis. Mimesis. See Plato, The Republic , book X : - And the painter too is, as I conceive, just such another --a creator of appearances, is he not? - Of course.

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The questioning of mimesis

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  1. The questioning of mimesis

  2. Mimesis See Plato, The Republic, book X : - And the painter too is, as I conceive, just such another --a creator of appearances, is he not? - Of course. - But then I suppose you will say that what he creates is untrue. And yet there is a sense in which the painter also creates a bed? - Yes, he said, but not a real bed. - And what of the maker of the bed? Were you not saying that he too makes, not the idea which, according to our view, is the essence of the bed, but only a particular bed? - Yes, I did. - Here is another point: The imitator or maker of the image knows nothing of true existence; he knows appearances only. Am I not right? - Yes. - Then let us have a clear understanding, and not be satisfied with half an explanation. - Proceed. - Of the painter we say that he will paint reins, and he will paint a bit? - Yes. - And the worker in leather and brass will make them? - Certainly. - But does the painter know the right form of the bit and reins? Nay, hardly even the workers in brass and leather who make them; only the horseman who knows how to use them --he knows their right form. - Most true. - And may we not say the same of all things? - What? - That there are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, a third which imitates them? - Yes.

  3. The invention of an illusionary 3rd dimension Pietro Perugino, infresco of the Sistine Chapel (1481–82)

  4. René Magritte, La Trahison des images, 1929

  5. Paul Cézanne, Nature morte avec fruits, 1890 Paul Cézanne, Portait de Gustave Geoffroy, 1895 Georges Braque, Viaduct at L'Estaque,1908

  6. Pablo Picasso, Musiciens aux masques, 1921 Fernand Léger, Nature morte avec une chope de bière, 1921

  7. JMW Turner, Snow Storm - Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth, 1842

  8. J. M. W. Turner, Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway, 1844

  9. Cubism Juan Gris, Portrait de Picasso, 1912

  10. Cubism Marcel Duchamp, Nu descendant un escalier, 1912

  11. H. Edgerton, Tennis Player, 1949

  12. Piet Mondrian, Composition, 1929

  13. William Harnett, The Faithful Colt, 1890

  14. Raoul Hausmann, ABCD, 1923-1924

  15. Richard Estes, Apollo, 1968

  16. Richard Estes, Untitled, 1970

  17. Chuck Close Exhibition

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