A Premature Thought
I wonder how Plato and Aristotle, two ancient greek philosophers with different point of views on the value of art, would react to photo-realistic paintings (e.g Big Self-Portrait (1967-1968) by Chuck Close) that never existed in their time. As the name would suggest, photo-realistic paintings was possible with the aid of photographic reference, something that the famous philosophers never had accessed to. The teacher and the disciple must had been exposed to impressive, and perhaps even anatomically correct, sculptures. But surely they had never seen an art that depicts the image of reality in a flat surface in a highly convincing rendering. This thought sparked as I learned how Plato believes that the arts was an instrument that corrupts the human emotion while Aristotle defends it.
Disclaimer: Surely no one reads this as a trusted reference, but as a fair warning, I'm over simplifying things here, and I might even be taking the wrong conclusion.
