On Paula's Artistic Imitation

From ancient Greece to the end of the 20th century, many great literary theorists and their outstanding literary works appeared in the West. The literary theory at this stage takes questioning the essence of literature and art as its own responsibility and puts forward the theory of literary imitation. Plato believes that literature and art imitate the real world according to his ideas, and the real world imitates the conceptual world. Aquila thinks that art imitates nature, and Horace thinks that it is necessary to imitate both reality and classical works. Aristotle believes that literature and art imitate human behavior. Leonardo da Vinci put forward "mirror image theory" on the basis of developing his representative theory. Plato criticized "artistic imitation" in The Republic-"idea" is the only real existence, and nature is only the shadow of idea, while artistic imitation is the shadow of shadow, which is too distorted and should be rejected. For example, he said that there are three kinds of beds: beds made by God, beds made by carpenters and beds made by artists. The idea that only the bed made by God is a bed is correct. Carpenters only create realistic beds according to the idea of beds, while artists only imitate realistic beds.