1. Aristotle believed that to be able to imitate something, someone has to experience it first. Just like an artist. An artist is allowed to imitate the real nature of his object and in a way convert it to something out of the ordinary but in the process, he has to consider its nature, its true form, its real quality. He explains form in terms of what causes it to be that way. Whereas from Plato's idea that form is idealistic, Aristotle believes that form is innate.
2. Plato and Aristotle differ in the way they understood art in relation of imitations to beauty. For Plato, beauty is a concept. It is something non concrete, which meaning relies on the one viewing it, that is brought to this natural world of order and certainty. Whereas for Aristotle, he believed that beauty is something existent, not abstract. For Aristotle, beauty exists in an object. It is something inborn.
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paragraphs above are paraphrases of the original paragraphs taken from the reading entitled
"Plato and Aristotle on Beauty and Imitation"
