Sentence examples for artistic imitation from inspiring English sources

On the table beside her is a mask (artistic imitation).

Turner intended this contribution to the yearly academy competition as a mockery of the servile artistic imitation of Claude.

In post-Aristotelian writing that distinction is blurred again: artistic imitation is conceived as appropriation of classical literary models, which are deemed ideal representations of nature.

These pillars feature artistic imitations of wooden and ceramic building components such as roof tiles, eaves, and balustrades.

They also asserted that this was an artistic medium worthy of imitation.

For Plato, who believed that all art is imitation, dance had artistic and moral value (Republic).

Aristotle is the first to clearly separate these two meanings, regarding humans as developing from appropriative imitation to enjoyment of artistic representation.

And is there any more artistic or graceful form of jest than imitation?

Nevertheless Plato's phrase "imitation of appearance" does characterize artistic mimêsis as a compounded problem.

Burlesque, in literature, comic imitation of a serious literary or artistic form that relies on an extravagant incongruity between a subject and its treatment.

The artistic mimesis defended by Scudéry does not entail a servile imitation of nature.