Painting (n.) is a commitment to the possibility of moving beyond the human seriously, and reversing the order of perception in order to seize the non-human virtual that eludes actualization.
Painting (n.) is a virtual materialism, and its theorization an ontology of the event as an entity.
Painting (n.) is tasked not to reveal the ontogenesis of the actual and the lived, but to extract the virtual and to embody it as a monument to that event.
Painting (n.) is thought. Vision is through thought, and the eye thinks, even more than it listens.
Painting (n.) lags behind music, as Klee said — which may be why aesthetics took painting as its model: it scares people less.