The traditional teaching of arts was drawing and painting according to ideals or nature. The became obolete at the end of the 19th century due to the discovery of “free” children’s painting. The focus of teaching painting by imitating masterpieces is in doing so to open possibilities to do it yourself. Through the imitator’s inner sympathy of intensive of his personal discussions with an ideal or a model imitation can get the quality of a mimetic process. Mimetic processes aim at an ceeordance between ideal and copy. Though but their criterion is not the exact copy but a similarity which opens free scope for the imitation subject. Every intented process of imitation in class only gets relevant in the strict meaning if it reaches the a quality of a mimetic process.
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