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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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