Imitation (art)
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Imitation (art)
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Imitation is the doctrine of artistic creativity according to which the creative process should be based on the close imitation of the masterpieces of the preceding authors. This concept was first formulated by Dionysius of Halicarnassus in the first century BCE as imitatio, and has since dominated for almost two thousand years the Western history of the arts and classicism. Plato has regarded imitation as a general principle of art, as he viewed art itself as an imitation of life. This theory w
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Doctrine of artistic creativity
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imitation_(art)
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2011-04-07T15:22:27Z
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2024-09-13T00:22:19Z
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