Greek Art

All forms of arts serve as means of expression of the human 's’ inner feelings and desires. In actuality, people have the freedom to express their opinions, judgments, and even the darkest desires in any way they wished. However, some people tend to call any type of expression as art. The reason for this is that the word “art” justifies, in a sense, some corruptive and useless artist works. Although I am in favor of almost all types of artworks, there should be a regulative system which prohibits certain types of works. Since people have the right to freedom of expression, they should also respect the rights of others not to be exposed to some artistic expressions because some of them contrast with their desired educative system. Plato …show more content…
Although today there is nothing wrong with this situation, the exposure to some arts such as film have reinforced this behavior. In order to consider all films as art, they should exhibit some knowledge or awareness that make people think about it. However, there are films of public demand that do not teach anything; in fact, some of them are very corruptive. According to Plato, art that provides a false perception of reality and justice needs to be censored. On this subject Plato writes about the perception that some artworks provide to people, “ ...injustice is profitable when undetected, but that justice is a man’s own loss and another’s gain.” (17). This quote explains well how some kinds of arts, in this case film can distort the reality in a bad way. To illustrate, the film “The Human Centipede” by director Tom Six shows a depraved surgeon fulfilling his sick fantasy of stitching human bodies together in a row. The images in this film are atrocious and dirty-minded. This type of behavior presented in the movie becomes less disturbing because people are exposed to movies like the “Human Centipede.” Therefore, the previous example clearly demonstrates that Plato had a good reason to call for action in censorship all kinds of corruptive …show more content…
Some artworks depict only one perspective of reality; that is, they offer an individual aspect of a specific subject that might not suit everyone’s points of view. According to this, Plato considered this kind of art as third degree of reality and questioned its usefulness through his example of the painting of a bed. For that, he said the painting is only the imitation of a second degree of reality because it is a copy of a real bed that, in fact, is the copy of the original form of a bed. This is much like some video games that display a particular image of reality. For example, the video game Grand Theft Auto by Rockstar Games let the players commit any virtual crime such as robbery and murder. It is almost guaranteed that many young people who have played this game continuously have some type of deviation. These kinds of games isolate children and players in general from the experience of