Assignment in COMM 1 (paraphrasing)

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.

*the paragraphs above are paraphrases of the original paragraphs taken from the reading entitled 

"Plato and Aristotle on Beauty and Imitation"

Assignment in Comm 1

Main Idea:

• The book review mainly talks about how today's art differs from the traditional way of art after the technology prospered over the years and at the same time explained how "subjects of paintings have their own social meaning" at the light of the female nude painting. 

Supporting Ideas:

• It was somehow understandable that the book review wanted to show that today's art is more widely reproduced than before while the traditional art is more prized because it was the only way to capture the moment that people experienced.
• The book review also stated that the traditional art changed "at the advent of the camera which has manipulated the way we look at art today". The camera paved way to the reproduction of art in a way that it was available for everyone.
• The book review focused on the female nude painting and understood how the females were some kind of used for the sexual pleasure of the men viewing them.