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    Painting can imitate actions only indirectly, by suggesti... — Carmelics
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    Painting can imitate actions only indirectly, by suggestion through bodies.

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    • 1.Painting's true subjects are bodies in space, not actions over time.
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    • 2.Painting can only depict a single moment in its coexisting compositions.
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    • 3.Actions unfold over time and cannot be directly captured in a single spatial moment.
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    • 1.A single painted moment can encode temporal sequence when viewers recognize narrative conventions and culturally learned action schemas.
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    • 2.Recognition of depicted action is direct perceptual understanding, not inference from bodies to implied motion.
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    • 3.Lessing's own 'pregnant moment' doctrine concedes painting selects for maximum temporal implication, undermining the claim of mere indirectness.
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    • 1.Depictions of gesture, posture, and facial expression constitute a visual language of action that is immediately legible, not merely suggestive.
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    • 2.Goodman's symbol theory establishes that pictorial representation is conventional, so painting can directly denote actions as readily as bodies.
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    Lessing continues his argument by turning to the other half of Mendelssohn’s theory, the claim that poetry is an art that can represent a succession of events over time rather than one moment in time. “Accordingly, bodies with their visible properties are the true subjects of painting,” while, since actions take place over time, “actions are the true subjects of poetry.” Thus, “painting too can imitate actions, but only by suggestion through bodies,” and again “can use only a single moment of an
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