Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age ofIts Technological Reproduction: He made several points as to what creates authenticity. Three ideas that stood out to me were that the piece is a representation of the time and environment in it was created when a piece of art is transformed, it leaves a bit behind and is no longer 'original' but an 'imitation,' and finally, the "mode of perception" influences the deepness of understanding and experience a viewer gets. I would agree to all three statements listed. Some examples he uses include photography, film, and traditional art from the renaissance. Regarding representation, I would have to agree that in the case of paintings and drawing, when it is recreated, the human eye is biased in its perception, focusing on the details that matter to them while also having a great error. When recreating a drawing, the art loses the integrity of the original as the artist can oversee a detail that was included in the original and may cause the piece to have a whole new meaning. The mode of perception is also important. Benjamin talks about how film creates the most authentic of experiences. Although it does involve all of the senses creating an authentic feeling of being in the present, the artist can't completely replicate the experience the actors are performing b/c of the deliberate exclusion of certain content. I also think he talks about how all artists are recreating an experience. And to be honest, there is no 100% "authenticity" as that is impossible because art in itself is the meditation of the artist's message.