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    It is not the case that Painting must choose the single most suggestive moment of an action to represent that action.

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    • 1.Painting can represent duration and temporal flux through formal composition, as Cézanne's multi-perspective canvases demonstrate.
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    • 2.If a painting can convey temporal depth without isolating a single moment, the constraint Lessing imposes is empirically false.
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    • 1.Narrative paintings like Hogarth's 'Marriage A-la-Mode' series embed sequential time within a single scene through symbolic and spatial layering.
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    • 2.When iconographic convention allows viewers to read multiple temporal stages simultaneously, the 'most suggestive moment' criterion becomes one strategy among many, not a necessary condition.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Painting can only use a single moment of an action in its coexisting compositions.
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    • 2.To convey an action, that one moment must imply as much of the action as possible.
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