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    It is not the case that Artistic representation of suffering can achieve beauty through the depiction of mental and spiritual resistance to pain.

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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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    • 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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