Art as a Mirrorn on the World
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For Greeks, perfection existed in the natural world, a world that had been created by the gods, who were themselves perfect and who had imbued the world with a harmony that was just and right. The world was in and of itself perfect, and the task of the artist was therefore not to improve on nature, not to try to make the world better (for it was already filled with beauty) but to attempt to capture and preserve the beauty that surrounded them. This basic philosophy informed all genres of Greek art during the classical era, and was especially evidence in Greek sculpture, which had the potential to be the most realistic of art forms because of its three-dimensionality and its scale.Plato - and Aristotle, Plato's student, after him - discusses the essential purpose of art as a mirror held up to the real world in the Republic, for in this text he was fundamentally concerned with examining and explaining the ways in which the world and art about the world are related to each other. He argues that the true purpose of all art forms (including literature as well as the plastic arts) is a mimetic one. Art, in
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