We ought to pay attention only to the intrinsic properties of a work of art. Its other, extrinsic properties are irrelevant to our aesthetic interactions with it. For example, when we look at a painting we should consider only what is directly presented in our experience of it. What is really aesthetically relevant, ttherefore, is not what a painting symbolizes, but what it directly presents to experience. The conclusion follows logically if which one of the following is added to the premises?
A: There are certain properties of our experiences of artworks that can be distinguished as symbolic properties.
B: Only an artwork's intrinsic properties are relevant to our aesthetic interactions with it.
C: It is possible in theory for an artwork to symbolize nothing.
D: What an artwork symbolizes involves only extrinsic properties of that work.
Choose A, B, C or D as your solution.
D