In relation to art, Merleau-Ponty’s view, which accords with experience, was that the artist did not merely reflect what was there anyway, albeit in a novel way, but actually ‘brought into being a truth’ about the world that was not there before, perhaps the best example of the universal being manifest through the particular.
Compare to Gaiman's Sandman and the exhibition of AMSND to the actual Oberon and Titania: these things didn't happen but are still true.
