Life imitating art  

From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

(Difference between revisions)
Jump to: navigation, search
Revision as of 08:59, 6 June 2009
Jahsonic (Talk | contribs)
(Life imitating art moved to Life imitates art)
← Previous diff
Revision as of 18:32, 9 September 2009
Jahsonic (Talk | contribs)
(Life imitates art moved to Life imitating art)
Next diff →

Revision as of 18:32, 9 September 2009

Related e

Wikipedia
Wiktionary
Shop


Featured:

Life imitating art is the reverse of the normal process whereby art is made to resemble life. The concept derives from an Oscar Wilde aphorism, "Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life." Wilde follows Ovid who, in Book 3 of the Metamorphoses, depicts a scene where "Nature in her genius had imitated art."

Examples

  • The 1898 novella Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan, about a supposedly indestructible ocean liner which sinks after colliding with an iceberg, has been noted to contain a remarkable number of parallels with the real-life sinking of RMS Titanic, which occurred in 1912 - fourteen years after the story's publication.
  • It has been reported that the prevalence of CSI and other crime investigation TV shows have changed criminal behavior. For example, the use of bleach to destroy DNA evidence has increased, as a result.
  • Astronomers who took a picture of the star V838 Monocerotis remarked that it seems to imitate Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night.
  • The release of the 2006 film Night at the Museum, which depicted the American Museum of Natural History in New York City as having its attendance increase dramatically at the end of the film, resulted in the real American Museum of Natural History's attendance increasing after the film's release. Christmas season attendance increased by 20% over the previous year.


Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Life imitating art" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.

Personal tools