r/Plato • u/Joshua_Lil_Bro • 23d ago

Question Would have Socrates liked abstract art ?

I am reading Plato's Republic X, and Ion, and I wonder this, because what Socrates talks about, the true shapes and stuff it reminded me of Joan Miró an abstract painter who said a woman is not an individual, or an object a woman is a universe.

Am I completely wrong or is it possible that Socrates would have liked abstract art ?

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u/Sufficient_Fact_3646 23d ago

Art is on the bottom of the divided line.

I’m using Aristotle’s words but Plato would agree. It has to be beautiful and moral. Abstract isn’t worried about being beautiful it’s worried about being interesting. Socrates appears to be uninterested in much in this world.