Everything we do is based on what we experience throughout our lives. In his theory of mimesis, Plato says that all art is mimetic by nature. Art is an imitation of life. I believed that the “idea” is the ultimate reality.
The rest of this phrase, popularized by Oscar Wilde's 1889 essay The Decline of Lies, states that “life imitates art much more than art imitates life. In Poetics, Aristotle argued that “it is a natural human impulse to make art that imitates the people, places and events that surround them is a natural human impulse. According to Billy Collings and his Master Class lesson, “the Aristotelian concept of mimesis not only involved imitation, but the poet adds symbolism and structure that allow the audience to extract meaning from the work. Wilde believed that “things exist because we see them, and what we see and how we see it depends on the arts that have influenced us.
He is in the center and his easel is visible, as is his brush, as he paints “The Oxbow”. John McGlade, doctor in Architecture and Fine Arts, says: “In the text of life, art stands out the most. The mimesis between art and life has been observed for a long time. In 1889, Oscar Wilde boldly asserted that “life imitates art much more than art imitates life.
He argued that, instead of merely copying, life imitates art because life yearns for the kind of expression found in great works of art. This life-affirming quality is the basis of the value of art. Beyond the economy and social status, the personal value of art illuminates on its own and becomes brighter over time. According to this theory, since art imitates tangible things, art is always a copy of a copy and takes us even further away from the truth and leads us to illusion.
For me it is a matter of life that imitates art, since my emotions are linked to the work of art and not to the experience.
