Over the last several years I have started to examine what it is that makes me like a particular work of art and not another. I thought it might have to do with the emotions I experience when I am exposed to a particular work of art, as well as its quality and/or its aesthetic appeal. However, I have never felt that I had a comprehensive understanding of why I am attracted to one work of art and vehemently opposed to another. Now I am curious if it has to do with a work of art’s mimesis, in which all the art work’s characteristics that I have pondered are subsumed. From what I understand, mimesis has to do with the micro-world or alternate reality that is created by a work of art. When a person engages in a mimetic work of art it is called mimetic exploration.
In this blog I will comment on the mimesis of various art forms and its impact on my own mimetic exploration, using specific examples from architecture to movies to art.
