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本帖最后由 谦行天下 于 2010-7-30 21:31 编辑
Art has many incarnations: drama, music, painting and sculpture, film, such literary expressions as poetry and the novel, the dance, and, in some ways, architecture. Art’s primary function is providing entertainment, but art has functions more than that.
Another function is that art leads us into a world of what is eternal and universal, which, traditionally, been called the theory of imitation. For Christians, a Renaissance painting of a Madonna and child is somehow a revelation of surpassing spirituality. A Beethoven symphony is the last word on human endurance. Certain arrangement of color and movement satisfy us for a long time. We judge them as beautiful. Beauty, many may insist, is the very hallmark of what is true ‘art’. These may add a third function of art that is instruction. The Character Shylock in Shakespeare’s novel told us what is inordinate; novel Gone with wind teaches us what wars can undermine. All the narrative art in fact instruct us to some extent: when we watch a moral novel, we see ourselves in the characters, we identify our own destines in the plot and we find the representative of problems in all human relationship. So far, we defined the function of art as enjoyment, beauty and instruction, thus the art gives society something of permanent value.
Then, what is the function of critics? By carefully delineates art, criticism serves a function by propagating the best ideas so that they trickle down to the masses. Some art like impressionist paintings is too abstract and abstruse to understand by the masses. Critics pick up the best artwork and satirize the distorted ones. Without critics, Van Gogh’s paintings would vanish because when he was alive, no one recognize his greatest and buy his painting. After critic imparts his greatness to the common man, Van Gogh’s paintings become above price. For example, Picasso's later pictures are so abstract that few of us can understand it without the guidance of the critic. And we are lucky that so many critics form various, ample, and all-sided interpretations that nearly each of us can understand the Picasso's art objective. For another example, artists who set appear on the Oprah Winfrey Show are likely to rise to international fame quickly. We can also see this concept in this example that in recent times when lackluster movie and music periods have been kickstarted by exciting new talent brought to the attention of the masses by critical success. Great criticism springs out of an epoch of great ideas and these epochs are prospered when the great idea reach the masses.
However, critic may mislead people for art. Some critics, without a high sense of responsibility and good professional conduct, pursue personal interests and interestedly recognize greatness in writing. This cheating will never last long. One the other hand, it has been said that the great art is tend to before its times. Take Van Gogh, for example, wasn’t recognized by critic in his age.
All in all, criticism is a great system that it gives feedback to artists and inspires them. Through the analysis above, we can draw a conclusion that critic is just a byproduct of great art. Without art, the critic will never exist. It is art that create something of lasting value. Critic helps society recognize the great art.
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9号,谢谢你帮我捋清楚了,我自己没弄清楚!
感谢!
Art has many incarnations: drama, music, painting and sculpture, film, such literary expressions as poetry and the novel, the dance, and, in some ways, architecture. Arts create art works, among which something of lasting value are passing from generation to generation. Critics emerged far behind art world began, which support the idea that critics are based on art. However, when critic helps prosper the art by bringing it to public attention, it misleads people.
Art’s primary function is providing entertainment, but art has functions more than that. Another function of art is leading us into a eternal world. For Christians, a Renaissance painting of a Madonna and child is somehow a revelation of surpassing spirituality. A Beethoven symphony is the last word on human endurance. Certain arrangement of color and movement satisfy us for a long time. We judge them as beautiful. Beauty, many may insist, is the very hallmark of what is true ‘art’. These may add a third function of art that is instruction. The Character Shylock in Shakespeare’s novel told us what is inordinate; novel Gone with wind teaches us what wars can undermine. All the narrative art in fact instruct us to some extent: when we watch a moral novel, we see ourselves in the characters, we identify our own destines in the plot and we find the representative of problems in all human relationship. So far, we defined the function of art as enjoyment, beauty and instruction, thus the art gives society something of permanent value.
Then, what is the function of critics? Carefully delineating art, criticism serves a function by propagating the best ideas so that they trickle down to the masses. Some art like impressionist paintings is too abstract and abstruse to understand by the masses. Critics pick up the best artwork and satirize the distorted ones. Without critics, Van Gogh’s paintings would vanish because when he was alive, no one recognize his greatest and buy his painting. After critic imparts his greatness to the common man, Van Gogh’s paintings become above price.
Critic has received widely acceptance. For example, artists who set appear on the Oprah Winfrey Show are likely to rise to international fame quickly. Critic's opinion can somehow give feedbacks to artists and inspire artists to create wonderful works. We can see this concept in this example that in recent times when lackluster movie and music periods have been kick started by exciting new talent brought to the attention of the masses by critical success. Great criticism springs out of an epoch of great ideas and these epochs are prospered when the great idea reach the masses. Through the above analysis of the function of critic, we can conclude that critic just an attachment to art and they seldom create us something of lasting value.
Moreover, critic may mislead people for art. Some critics, without a high sense of responsibility and good professional conduct, pursue personal interests and interestedly recognize greatness in writing. This cheating will never last long. One the other hand, it has been said that the great art is tend to before its times. Take Van Gogh, for example, wasn’t recognized by critic in his age.
All in all, criticism is a great system that it gives feedback to artists and inspires them. Through the analysis above, we can draw a conclusion that critic is just an accessory of great art. Without art, the critic will never exist. It is art that create something of lasting value. Critic helps society recognize the great art.
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