Does life imitate art ?or does art imitate Life?

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A Romantic Heart
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0 posted 2004-02-20 05:38 AM

What are your thoughts on this topic?

serenity blaze
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1 posted 2004-02-20 07:37 PM

I like to think of it as a marriage.

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berengar
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2 posted 2004-02-21 01:23 AM

A bit like 'which came first, the chicken or the egg'?
In slightly more oblique reference to the aforementioned question, I like Oscar Wilde's advice that if one cannot produce a work of art, one should at least attempt to look like a work of art.

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3 posted 2004-02-21 11:04 PM

dont they imitate both?

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A Romantic Heart
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4 posted 2004-02-23 02:04 AM

In a way they do go together..but being more detailed about my question..or pondering should I say...

I was using the example of tv...media..and how people do what the stars do..dress like them..get their hair cut like them...and what people see on tv...some follow it like a bible..or a guide to their own life...(not me) an example of life imitateing art...

But then there is reality tv..that reflects real life or does it? because real life is not rehearsed...art imitating life...

Open your eyes, open your mind, open your heart, let me come in and show you love.....~ARH

Ron

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5 posted 2004-02-23 03:07 AM

Television? What's that have to do with art?

A Romantic Heart
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6 posted 2004-02-23 03:16 AM

Correct me if I am wrong..but I thought acting and drama was one of the arts? Like plays?
or musicals?

Open your eyes, open your mind, open your heart, let me come in and show you love.....~ARH

Ron

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7 posted 2004-02-23 04:25 AM

I guess. In maybe the same sense as the National Enquirer is poetry?

I'm certainly not qualified to define what is and isn't art. If all it takes is acting and drama, however, my neighbor's three-year-old daughter has got it wired big time!

If television is to be the art form in question, then no, I don't think art imitates life. Television offers too little diversity, compared to life, and even less depth. Television, I think, is a stereotype of life.

Brad
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Jejudo, South Korea

8 posted 2004-02-24 09:56 PM

Life is art.

It's a work in progress.

darkness_witch
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9 posted 2004-02-26 11:37 PM

neither. art is beautiful, life isnt.

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Brad
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10 posted 2004-02-27 08:24 PM

Why does beauty have to man/woman made?

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