Simple simulation in contemporary portrait

Abstract

This research focuses on a few contemporary artistic experiences. It highlights the trend of artist tendencies to accurately simulate reality by highly skillful and meticulous portrayals through the means of social media and virtual exhibitions. This represents the return of the simple simulation hypothesis, which was put forth by the Greek philosopher Plato. This hypothesis is considered as one of the oldest theories in art, and it defines "beautiful art as" the honest verbal repetition of the subjects of the usual experience and its incidences. What the technical subject reveals is a precise resemblance to the model situated outside the frame of the artwork, (mimicked) by this work.

The return of this hypothesis after a long history of studies and artistic theories is worthy of note. Given that this return of the simulation was grossly exaggerated. It rendered the artist a merely a skillful craftsman who strives to simulate the reality in the smallest details, and his works, compared to his artistic peers, have became virtually indistinguishable from one another. As a result, the artistic expression, which had a distinctive role in the art career in general, was diminished. Leading the artist to lose his artistic personality along with his own characteristic and individual mark.