Beds

Plato talks about representation, using the image of a bed. He explains that when we talk about a bed, there are actually three beds. The first is the bed made by god. The second is the bed made by the carpenter and finally, the third bed is made by the painter. This is like a process God creates the original bed, the idea of a bed. The carpenter manufactures beds and the painter creates representations of the bed. This is a simple example used to demonstrate the point that Plato will go on to make.
The point of this illustration is that, according to Plato, the artist, or poet, only ever represents the thing that the other two have created. As it follows, the artist’s representation of the bed is at third removed from reality. If the representation is removed from reality then it cannot be an accurate picture. He thinks that art is changing reality into something it is not that the artist is basically making reality into what they want reality to be like and represent it in their form of art. This leads to making the viewer believe that the art created by that artist, is what it is in reality. 
I don’t agree with Plato because I believe that the art is what the painter or the spectator thinks or feels about it when they look at it. You will get a different feeling and interpretations off a painting.
 Deceptive wouldn’t be the word I would use. Because deceptive is basically saying that the painter wants you to think that his painting means one thing but it actually means another. When in fact as an individual you can have your own feelings towards a painting and feel a whole other way than what the painter felt.

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