Art can be defined as an act of expressing emotions, ideas, and observations. With regards to the literary art and the musical arts, Aristotle considered epic poetry, tragedy, comedy, Dithyrambic poetry and music to be mimetic or imitative art, each various in imitation by medium, object, and method. For example, music imitates with the media of rhythm and concord, whereas dance imitates with rhythm alone, and poetry with language. Comedy, for instance Art, is a dramatic imitation of men worse than average; whereas tragedy imitates males slightly higher than common. Lastly, the varieties differ in their method of imitation—through narrative or character, through change or no change, and through drama or no drama. Aristotle believed that imitation is natural to mankind and constitutes one of mankind’s advantages over animals.

Paradoxically, such significance is typically attributed to things neither meant as art, nor particularly meant to be perceived aesthetically – …