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    It is not the case that Painting can imitate actions only indirectly, by suggestion through bodies.

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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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    • 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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