When I started reading this essay, I automatically began thinking of Plato’s, the famous Greek philosopher, view of art. My philosophy teacher once mentioned it briefly and I did some research to find out that Plato believes that art is “art by intimidation”. I found an article about it on Rowan Universities website stating,
“Art is imitation This is a feature of both of Plato's theories. Of course he was not the first or the last person to think that art imitates reality. The idea was still very strong in the Renaissance, when Vasari, in his Lives of the Painters, said that "painting is just the imitation of all the living things of nature with their colors and designs just as they are in nature." It may still be the most commonly held theory. Most people still think that a picture must be a picture ofsomething, and that an artist is someone who can make a picture that "looks just like the real thing". It wasn't until late in the nineteenth century that the idea of art as imitation began to fade from western aesthetics, to be replaced by theories about art as expression, art as communication, art as pure form, art as whatever elicits an "aesthetic" response, and a number of other theories.”
Although Stavans made a pretty strong argument defending Pop art through his culture, I still have to agree more with Plato’s. I don’t believe that pop art should be banned or made a mockery of, but I do think that pop art is not as bold as art that Plato favors such as nature. Pop art has a large social influence on the audience and the society it comes from just like the author of Stavans defended it.
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