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Position:Home>General - Arts & Humanities > "literature as an art and as an imitation" please ineed a simple answeQuestion: "literature as an art and as an imitation" please ineed a simple answer but understandable?my teacher askes us to do this Q as a homework so if anybody don't mind i'd love to get some info to collecet them and give it to my teacher ................ Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
when one writes it can be worthless drivel or it can be so well done that it becomes an art form... there are those who think that just the act of writing is art and maybe it is just not good art. Attaining a level of greatness in lit as art is worth the attempt but the results vary a great deal.... the imitation can be one of two things. You imitate life in what you write because words are not reality. They only express someones opinion on that reality so are therefore imitation. The expression art imitates life means that the practice of these arts is an imitating of the life that the artist leads. for instance I can not paint like the 17th century painter because I am not from that century, not quite that old yet. So if I paint in that style I am merely imitating something from that era. I would still be painting in my own time because I can not get out of that time therefore whatever I do is imitation. |