Gotthold Eprahim Lessing
(22 January 1729 – 15 February 1781) was a German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist, and art critic, and one of the most outstanding representatives of the Enlightenment era. His plays and theoretical writings substantially influenced the development of German literature.
Lessing is important as a literary critic for his work "Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry". In this work, he argues against the tendency to take Horace's ut pictura poesis (as painting, so poetry) as prescriptive for literature. In other words, he objected to trying to write poetry using the same devices as one would in painting. Instead, poetry and painting each have its character (the former is extended in time; the latter is extended in space). This is related to Lessing's turn from French classicism to Aristotelian mimesis.
Lessing argued that although painting and poetry are similar in creating an illusion -"both are imitative arts" - painting uses completely different means or signs from poetry. This was a new view - in art theory they were considered sister arts.

Similarly to Lessing, I quote John Dewey ('Art As Experience'):
"For each art has its own medium and that medium is especially fitted for one kind of communication. Each medium says something that cannot be uttered as well or as completely in any other tongue."

In a way , I actually agree with this statement even though it almost goes against the ideas that I set out to explore in my work. Looking at mediums, there are certain limitations as to what you can do with them, but they've also got certain qualities that other mediums don't. Using those qualities of painting, I am going to try and create something that communicates (almost) like a narrative.