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    Artistic representation of suffering can achieve beauty t... — Carmelics
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    Artistic representation of suffering can achieve beauty through the depiction of mental and spiritual resistance to pain.

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    • 1.Laocoön is fashioned as a man seeking to gather the conscious strength of his mind and spirit against pain.
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    • 2.The battle between pain and resistance is composed with great wisdom in the sculpture's rendering of the brow.
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    • 1.Lessing argues in Laokoon (1766) that the sculptor suppressed the scream not to show resistance, but due to medium-specific constraints of visual art.
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    • 2.The beauty of the Laocoön derives from formal softening of anguish, not from depicting mental resistance, which is a literary rather than plastic quality.
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    • 3.Attributing spiritual fortitude to a sculptural figure conflates the interpreter's narrative projection with the intrinsic aesthetic properties of the work.
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    • 1.Schopenhauer holds that beauty requires disinterested contemplation, which depictions of suffering actively undermine by triggering sympathetic pain in the viewer.
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    • 2.If the viewer's attention is drawn to the depicted suffering rather than transcending it, the work produces moral disturbance rather than aesthetic elevation.
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    Laocoön is a being in the greatest pain, fashioned in the likeness of a man seeking to gather the conscious strength of his mind and spirit against it…. Beneath the brow, the battle between pain and resistance, as if concentrated in this one place, is composed with great wisdom…Thus, where the greatest pain is expressed, the greatest beauty is also to be found. (History, pp. 313–14)
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