"What about things that cannot be created by craftsmen or by man, like, for example, a unicorn? What category does it fall into? Is art of a unicorn an imitation of an imitation or not?"
In my opinion, I think that the first person who conceived of a unicorn tapped into the world of forms. Then, it became depicted in stories and or art. Now, this is the part that I am slightly uncertain about; if people started putting unicorns on T-shirts and making them into stuffed animals, would the craftsmen who made them be making an imitation of an imitation? It's impossible to make a true unicorn, so would the craftsmen be aiming to create an ideal unicorn? In this case, I think that it could be argued that yes, the story of a unicorn might be less real and less useful than the stuffed animal unicorn, but wasn't it around first, and therefore, any "real" unicorns we see in our daily lives are imitations of an imitation.
Can we even apply what we know about the world of forms to things that do not exist, such as fictional characters? Does this fall into another category?
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