1. Aristotle on the other hand, believed that imitation involves human experience and in that sense he saw a role for the arts. According to Aristotle, the artist has the freedom to imitate aspects of nature, but he does insist on the unity of form (formal and structural qualities). Aristotle explains form in terms of its “causes” by which he means any external factor (apart from “matter”’) that explains why something is the way it is, and what function it can perform. In short, form is that which causes something to be the thing it is. So whereas Plato’s form relates to Ideal forms, Aristotle relates form to something inherent in the object.
Answer for Number 1:
According to Aristotle, Imitation is an act of inheriting different attributes of a certain subject. Since artist has the freedom to imitate forms of its subject, therefore he can project another artwork that is derives from its subject of imitation. And that is usually why the forms and structures of a certain artwork makes it by the way it is. It is a mere contradiction to Plato's view since his view is the idealistic view on arts.
2. Another difference between Plato and Aristotle is the way they discuss imitation in relationship to beauty. For Plato, beauty is an idea, something abstract that is revealed in the order of the natural world. Hence the importance he placed on mathematics as the key to understanding the natural world. For Aristotle, beauty is something real, it is also a function of form, it is not abstract as for Plato, but it is grounded in an object. In other words, it is bound to a context.
Answer for Number 2.:
Plato's view on arts is something abstract. His view depicts that art is something that needs in depth realization and understanding to its meaning. It conceals its thought to the universe. And for him, mathematics is something that can associate for the discovery of the meaning of arts. Aristotle on the other hand, says that art is something that exist in the realm of reality, bounded with its existence is its characteristic that art is something that can be perceive in the means of your senses and is bounded with a specific content.
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