Skull tattoos are very versatile tattoo designs, and a popular skull tattoo design incorporates both skulls and roses. Because skulls and roses evoke very different emotions, itâs not uncommon for skull and rose tattoo meanings to be misinterpreted. The most common skull and rose tattoo meaning accommodates the most popular meanings of both skull tattoos and rose tattoos, representing the contrast between life and death or beauty and decay.
Anti-mimesis is a philosophical position that holds the direct opposite of Aristotelian mimesis. Its most notable proponent is Oscar Wilde, who opined in his 1889 essay The Decay of Lying that, Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.
So art is imitation. But what does it imitate? Here is where Plato's two theories come in. In the Republic, Plato says that art imitates the objects and events of ordinary life. In other words, a work of art is a copy of a copy of a Form. It is even more of an illusion than is ordinary experience. On this theory, works of art are at best entertainment, and at worst a dangerous delusion. A moment's thought will suggest a way of building a more art-friendly theory out of Plato's philosophy.