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    The Laocoön statue achieves the highest level of beauty d... — Carmelics
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    The Laocoön statue achieves the highest level of beauty despite depicting supreme suffering.

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    • 1.The Laocoön statue was made by a classical Greek artist.
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    • 2.The classical Greek soul possesses noble simplicity and quiet grandeur.
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    • 3.The Greek artist's soul inevitably manifests itself in the artwork produced.
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    • 1.Winckelmann's attribution of 'noble simplicity' to Greek art projects an 18th-century neoclassical ideal onto ancient works rather than recovering their actual cultural meaning.
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    • 2.The Laocoön group was produced in Hellenistic Rhodes, a period characterized by pathos and dramatic expressionism, not Periclean restraint or stoic grandeur.
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    • 3.An artwork's beauty cannot be grounded in cultural traits misattributed to its creators, since the aesthetic property depends on a factually false historical premise.
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    • 1.Lessing argued in 'Laokoön' (1766) that the statue suppresses the scream not from Greek nobility of soul but from the material constraints of visual art, which cannot represent extreme vocal expression without aesthetic ugliness.
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    • 2.If restraint in the figure results from medium-specific limitations rather than the artist's elevated character, then the beauty produced is a formal accident, not an expression of cultural virtue.
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    • 3.A causal account of beauty that misidentifies the actual cause of the aesthetic effect cannot ground a general claim about the highest level of beauty.
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    The last paragraph of this is somewhat contorted: since Laocoön was not himself a classical Greek, but a pre-classical Trojan, Winckelmann does not quite attribute the “noble simplicity and quiet grandeur” that shines through his face even in the midst of his suffering to him and to nature as it might have been at work in Troy, but rather to the classical Greek artist whom he supposes did make the statue. But his basic point remains: since in his view the statue itself was Greek, the noble simpl
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