How Art Imitates Life

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(this original article was written on Medium on 05/10/2020. Before I was kicked off)

Mimesis.

This word is Greek and it means imitation. Not copying in the sense of imitating, but more so, representing. Representation.

Plato and Aristotle both spoke of mimesis as the representation of nature.

According to Plato, all artistic creation is a form of imitation, from the world of ideas. Essentially, what man perceives in his reality, already exists in this world of ideas.

Therefore, all musicians, artists, etc., are merely imitators of an imitation, twice removed from the truth.

That’s a lot to take in, but essentially, what it’s saying is that:

• There’s this “World of Ideas” that exists

• People pull from this world, ideas and thoughts, and make them reality

• So the reality that we see in our physical world, already existed in the other world. The World of Ideas.

Think about it: how many times have you had an idea, but soon realize that its already created?

Essentially, you pulled from the same world of…