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    Color serves the goal of painting best, because color is ... — Carmelics
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    Color serves the goal of painting best, because color is what distinguishes painting from all other arts and gives it its specific end

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    • 1.The aim of the painter is both to deceive the eyes and to imitate nature
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    • 2.Color is what distinguishes painting from all other arts and gives painting its own specific end
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    • 1.Drawing (disegno) constitutes the intellectual foundation of painting, as it embodies the artist's conception and rational design.
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    • 2.What is intellectually primary in an art defines its specific end more essentially than what merely distinguishes it perceptually from other arts.
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    • 3.Therefore, the specific end of painting is better served by disegno than by color, which functions as sensuous adornment rather than essential purpose.
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    • 1.Lessing's Laocoon establishes that the proper domain of painting is the depiction of bodies in space at a single frozen moment, not coloristic illusion.
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    • 2.If painting's specific end is determined by its unique representational capacity, then spatial composition and figural arrangement—not color—define that end.
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    • 3.Color is a shared property of visual experience generally and does not uniquely differentiate painting's representational achievements from, say, mosaic or tapestry.
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    Design is a necessary foundation, certainly, but if the aim of the painter is “both to deceive the eyes and to imitate nature”, it is reasonable to conclude that color serves that goal best, because “herein lies the difference that distinguishes painting from all the other arts and which gives painting its own specific end” (AT: 180). This was clearly an attempt to turn to his advantage Poussin’s phrase that the aim of painting is delectation—but insufficient indeed to convince Le Brun.
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