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本帖最后由 yang1989 于 2009-3-2 21:01 编辑
TOPIC: ISSUE144 - "It is the artist,not the critic,* who gives society something of lasting value."
*a person who evaluates works of art, such as novels, films, music, paintings, etc.
WORDS: 569
TIME: 00:45:00
DATE: 2009/3/2 20:35:55
拼写错误8.
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提纲:
1.艺术家有永恒价值
2.评论家也有永恒价值,因为他帮我们发现艺术家的价值
3.出色的评论家本身就能给我们永恒价值。
While some may argue that it is the artist,instead of the critic, who gives society something of lasting value as thespeaker contends, I hold a reserved disagreement with his point. In all,excellent artist and outstanding critics can both offer something eternal toour society.
To begin with, it's true that artists, whoexpress themselves in a highly creative way, invariably live through time.While the ordinary people usually find themselves stuck in the mud of thischaotic world, artists relieve the situation by concentrating on their innervoices, which softens the hardship felt by the ordinary as well when expressedin form of art. Sebastian Bach takes God's calling to comfort us, Van Goghinspires each of us in virtue of enormous strength and Picasso gives ussomething of confidence to seek meaning and unity in fragments produced by a dehumanizingindustrial civilization. Whatever contents they expressed, all these artworkstouch something at the bottom of everybody's heart and deserve to be entitledas the crux of one culture, society and even the western civilization, whichwill never fade away with the passage of time.
But had it not been the efforts of critics,who delve into seeking meanings behind the form of an artwork, as likely as notwe would have little knowledge of the great names in the history of art, suchas Van Gogh, Paul Cezanne, Marcel Duchamp etc. It's the critics who devotethemselves to identify works of an eternal value among mountainous awkwardproductions disguised in the name of art. Embarrassing faults as they sometimesmay come to, critics possess so
amazinga characteristic that they are always ready to admit their faults andreevaluate their critiques on the basis of new perspective or techniques whichhelps to understand the obscure artwork. It's true that Van Gogh used to beignored and led a poor life; paintings by Paul Cezanne, the extraordinaryimpressionist and artworks by Marcel Duchamp, who took a urinal to an artexhibition, were criticized severely, they eventually gain their names and areintroduced to common people who probably have no idea of what great art is. Ina word, good critics are usually good connoisseurs, who make mistakes sometimebut never all the time. Thanks to their outstanding works, our societydiscovers so many precious arts of lasting value.
What's more, critiques of great artcommentators are fine art in itself. Take Friedrich Nietzsche's first book, theBirth of Tragedy, for example, which comments on the Greek art. Nietzsche distinguishestwo kinds of spirits in this book, that is, the reflective Apollonian andrhapsodic Dionysian and contends that the arts of the Greeks are the highestform of all art since they have perfectly combined Apollonian and Dionysian.The book is so gracely wrote that it's a great art in itself! What's more, theBirth of Tragedy has exerted a profound influence in later intellectuals in thewest since the book is intended to warn the western civilization of thedeadening influence of rationalism and inspire something sublime. FriedrichNietzsche, in all sense, is a great critic who gives our society enormoustreasures that could really live time.
To draw a conclusion, the problem is not toquarrel which one gives society something eternal, but to appreciate uniquevalue of both of the two sides. Greatness is not only about identity but aboutcreativity which is required by both professions. |
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