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if there is platonic truth why art always changes? if perfect works of art, as they are received in their time, were truly that they would have the same effect now. but they do not, we feel as if they are old. hence we produce more and more new art, we are never satisfied with classics.

argument that none of them achieved the true form is a fair one. but unlike modern technology, writing with pen and paper have been available for thousands of years. how come no one could achieve the one perfect art, not even one? doesn't that tell us reaching for something perfect is futile when it comes to art?

>> No.22987967

Read Coleridge's Biografia Literaria and Auerbach's Mimesis to find out

>> No.22987968

Maybe you should read the first couple chapters of Genesis then read some Plato.

>> No.22987977

>>22987963
there's no platonic truth

>> No.22988037

>>22987963
If there's one thing Plato said it's that art is perfect

>> No.22988051

The concept of perfect works of art seems absurd to me

>> No.22988052

>>22987963
Times change
Eternal truth doesnt
However how would we recognize it in the works of art of the past, made by temporal hands, with our changing temporal eyes?

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>>22987963
Art is an expression of humanity. But humanity is constantly changing. Therefore, "perfect" examples of art in the past are time capsules of the zeitgeist at the time, but as time goes on, a new culture arises, which demands a new representation. Surrealist works do not represent antiquity, and caveman art does not represent postmodernism.
Or are you asking for an "Infinite Jest" type of art, something so perfect that it renders all things beyond it moot?

>> No.22988106

>>22987963
Great art is timeless and transcends generations and cultures. Such art does exist, and artists have always strived to capture this universal, sublime quality. That is the task of the artist. However, no work of art can ever fully encapsulate the Form of Beauty; it can only have a share in it. We perceive beauty through art, but we do not perceive Beauty itself, which exists only in the realm of forms.