does art perfectr nature?

Answer 1

What we seek in art is something other than perfect imitation. How else can one explain, for example, the continued appeal of black and white photography despite the invention of color photography? Even some recent motion pictures have been intentionally filmed in black and white. For example, the 1998 film Celebrity portrays a contemporary subject yet is filmed entirely in black and white. Why the anachronism? The answer is simple: art is not meant to perfectly mimic reality.

Moreover, art is fundamentally incapable of perfectly mimicking reality. The mediums in which art is rendered have intrinsic limitations in this respect. For example, photographs are two-dimensional projections of an instant in time. The medium of stone used by the ancient Greeks also has inherent limitations in its ability to exactly replicate the human form. It has a different color, texture, and obduracy than human flesh. Stone doesn’t move, breathe, or talk. Stone doesn’t live nor does it die. How can anything carved out of stone be considered an exact copy of a human being?