Q&A #1

What is the significance of Plato's claim that art is an "imitation of an imitation" (from The Republic, especially)?

According to Plato art is an “imitation of an imitation” the idea of an imitation in art comes when artists from Plato’s time back then let say poets did not wrote the truth, but an imitation of the actual truth. An imitation does not mean art is not beautiful, but it means whoever created did not have the idea it was given to the specific person. Imitation can be experience in many things, but in art is so powerful is express in many forms none of those forms are truth object it does not bring reality within because the idea was not created by the creator or inventor itself. They have to reach into the world of forms to get the idea. Plato did not believe creators and inventors “construct the idea itself, because that is impossible” (25). An imitation does not exactly mean is not the truth, but most likely a reflection of the actual truth of the idea.