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Just how bound up nat­ural beauty is with art beauty is con­firmed by the expe­ri­ence of the for­mer. For it, nature is exclu­sively appear­ance, never the stuff of labor and the repro­duc­tion of life, let alone the sub-stratum of sci­ence. Like the expe­ri­ence of art, the aes­thetic expe­ri­ence is that of images. Nature, as appear­ing beauty, is not per­ceived as an object of action. The slough­ing off at the aims of self-preservation — which is emphatic in art — is car­ried out to the same degree in aes­thetic expe­ri­ence of nature

Aes­thetic The­ory, Ardano

The light suf­fuses, but doesn’t over­whelm.  In our phys­i­cal expe­ri­ence, this light would dis­rupt our optic nerves and sub­ject us to dis­com­fort, a loss of focus.  The paint­ing cre­ates a buffer between the frailty of our body and the pierc­ing power of the light.  This buffer presents an alter­na­tive expe­ri­ence, of qui­etude and nat­ural beauty, a sphere within which man’s man­u­fac­tur­ings exists peacefully.

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