Is art imitation of reality

I see a cow, but i also see a painting.Plato's republic (written around 375bc) claimed that art can only ever be an imitation of reality, which is composed of transcendent forms (aka ideas).According to the mimetic theory, art is an imitation or representation of nature or reality.Being mimesis, art is at two removed from true reality (the transcendent world of the eternal forms), or in other words, art is just a copy of a copy, and therefore it is necessarily untrue and.Physical things imitate forms (read plato's theory of the forms).

The art of depicting economic reality.Justifying that the artist does not simply reflect the concrete object in the manner of a mirror.These examples could be the only proof we need.In his allegory of the cave, plato expressed human experience—what they regarded as reality—as a shadow cast on a cave wall by the light of a flickering fire.The art of illusion another example of great imitation is the reality tv series your face sounds familiar.

To that same extent an artist may be said to engage in the imitation of nature.