2/9/11

Artists as imitators in my eyes is a very truthful concept that Plato portrays in his text. Artists draw inspiration from things around them and visually try to communicate that moment to the viewer. It's like one of my professors said last semester when we were doing graphite drawings of shoes, drawings are lies. The more skilled you are at drawing the better of a liar you become. I don't think artists want to come to terms with this because they put so much effort and time into their projects that it is real to them not an imitation.