That 'REAL' stuff

 Realism is a close resembelence to what is real; fidelity of representation, rednering the presence of details of the real thing or scene. Oxford Dictionary online.


I believe that everyone has their own views as to what looks real or fake.






The urge to reprensent can manifest itself in attempts to represent

• the world as it is [the documentary urge]
• the world as i experience it [the confessional urge]
• the world as it can be imagined to be [the imaginative world]

there is a constant and complicated overlap between these categories.

The way i understood this is that it is very easy to say that the way i see and choose to represent the world may be seen as a 'confessional' or 'imaginative' to some one else.

Plato and his 3 theory's

1. spiritual/divine form (might be reality)
2. earthly or practical form (might be reality)
3. represented or illusory form (might be art)