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    A landscape rendered by a great painter is more charming ... — Carmelics
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    A landscape rendered by a great painter is more charming than the same landscape captured by a camera obscura.

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    • 1.A camera obscura produces only mechanical similarity, lacking the expression of a rational soul.
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    • 2.A great painter's work expresses the perfection of spirit through many abilities of the soul and skilled use of the external limbs.
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    • 3.The expression of rational perfection produces greater pleasure than mechanical similarity.
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    • 1.The camera obscura's mechanical fidelity eliminates the distorting imposition of the artist's subjective preferences onto the natural scene.
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    • 2.Aesthetic value grounded in accurate representation of nature is diminished, not enhanced, by the interpolation of human expression between viewer and world.
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    • 3.Ruskin's doctrine of 'truth to nature' and early photographic theory both identify unmediated optical transcription as a superior form of pictorial honesty.
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    • 1.Kant's aesthetic theory holds that genuine judgments of beauty must be disinterested, free from concepts of rational perfection or purposive cognition.
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    • 2.The pleasure derived from a painter's expression of rational soul is a cognitive, interest-laden satisfaction rather than a pure aesthetic response.
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    • 3.If Kantian disinterestedness is correct, the painter's superiority rests on non-aesthetic grounds, leaving the claim about aesthetic charm unestablished.
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    All works of art are visible imprints of the artist’s abilities which, so to speak, put his entire soul on display and make it known to us. This perfection of spirit arouses an uncommonly greater pleasure than mere similarity, because it is more worthy and far more complex than similarity. It is all the more worthy the more that the perfection of rational beings is elevated above the perfection of lifeless things, and also more complex because many abilities of the soul and often diverse skills
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