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131"The arts (painting, music, literature, etc.) reveal the otherwise hidden ideas and impulses of a society."

Any form of art, visual or literary, is the expression of creativity and imagination. Most of the creativity and imagination is inspired by reality -- an uneventful personal experience or a nascent social movement. The principal purpose of art is the output of material for the audiences or viewers to interpret. Only by being interpreted can the work of art reveal any personal emotion or social impulses and this process of interpreting complicates the statement above. Whether the art reveal the otherwise hidden ideas and impulses of a society is subject to the availability of the arts and how accurate or successful the audiences interpret it.

Availability of works in art could be changed and varied from time to time, society to society. In times when the government is going through upheavals or oppositional movement, some of the arts denotes suspicious implication are more likely to be banned, rendering these revealing and even inspirational art works as secretive collection or even destroyed ashes. Startling example of this arbitrary control over art is China's notorious Cultural Revolution. Large sums of books were burned, leaving only collection of Chairman Man quotations for hundreds of thousands people across the country to read. One could be get arrested even by mentioning his curiosity for the western world. There was no access to arts that reveal any slight dissatisfaction of the policy imposed by the government. In these circumstances, very few artists, if any, were willing to express and share their ideas and impulses at the risk of being arrested. Even if there did exist some of these courageous artists, very few audiences or viewers were brave enough to even look let alone interpret these works. Not only time could make a difference in terms of availability of the arts. Societies in different political situation have loose or strict censorship over arts. Even the United States, which is a liberal country that respects freedom, competing political interests still exert influences over certain types of art. Unlike the direct and rude way of an authoritarian government, their control over the arts is less observable and harder to be detected. Often financially concerned, exhibition of the arts could be greatly impacted by patron and sponsorship from the government or private fund. Consequently, the arts created to reflect ideas and impulses of minorities or the poor are not able to reach to a large sum of audiences, affecting the availability of the arts.

A revealing artwork that reflects hidden ideas and impulses of a society has to reach a considerable amount of audiences to make the interpretation possible. The accomplishment of "revealing" hidden ideas and impulses depends on whether these interpretations are accurate and successful, which counts largely on the viewers. Meaningful and revealing paintings in Renaissance or novels in the sixties for some people could be mere abstractions to other groups of people. Despite this difference, the accuracy of the interpretation as a whole has been significantly dropped due to the speeding development of information dissimulation. Original meaning carried along with some great artistic works has been undermined even distorted in this fast-food dissimulation of some great artistic work that carry complicated meaning. Superficial understanding of famous expressionist painting, the Scream by Munch, is one example. What was once a serious expression o existential dread is now self-mocking symbol of stresses of modern life. The quality of audiences’ interpretation is actually critical for whether a masterpiece of art work implied with original ideas and impulses turn out to be revealing or not.

To conclude, hidden ideas and impulses of a society interjected in any art work, be is sarcastic novel or expressionist painting, could only be revealed through a successful communication with its audiences or viewers, which includes universal access and accurate interpretation.

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131"The arts (painting, music, literature, etc.) reveal the otherwise hidden ideas and impulses of a society."

Any form of art, visual or literary, is the expression of creativity and imagination. Most of the creativity and imagination is inspired by reality -- an uneventful personal experience or a nascent social movement. The principal purpose of art is the output of material for the audiences or viewers to interpret. Only by being interpreted(interpretation) can the work of art reveal any personal emotion or social impulses and this process of interpreting complicates the statement above. Whether the art reveal the otherwise hidden ideas and impulses of a society is subject to the availability of the arts and how accurate or successful the audiences interpret it. （主题句）
提到principal purpose，随后紧接着only by being interpreted...，进主题，感觉不错~要细究的话，前两句的内容联系没有后几句那么紧密。但整个来讲主题的引入是自然顺畅的~


Availability of works in art could be changed and varied from time to time, society to society. In times when the government is going through upheavals or oppositional movement, some of the arts denotes suspicious implication are more likely to be banned, rendering these revealing and even inspirational art works as secretive collection or even destroyed ashes. Startling example of this arbitrary control over art is China's notorious Cultural Revolution. Large sums of books were burned, leaving only collection of Chairman Man quotations for hundreds of thousands people across the country to read. One could be get arrested even by mentioning his curiosity for the western world. There was no access to arts that reveal any slight dissatisfaction of the policy imposed by the government. In these circumstances, very few artists, if any, were willing to express and share their ideas and impulses at the risk of being arrested. Even if there did exist some of these courageous artists, very few audiences or viewers were brave enough to even look let alone interpret these works.Not only time could make a difference in terms of availability of the arts. Societies in different political situation have loose or strict censorship over arts. Even the United States, which is a liberal country that respects freedom, competing political interests still exert influences over certain types of art. Unlike the direct and rude way of an authoritarian government, their control over the arts is less observable and harder to be detected(to detect). Often financially concerned, exhibition of the arts could be greatly impacted by patrons and sponsorship from the government or private fund. Consequently, the arts created to reflect ideas and impulses of minorities or the poor are not able to reach （to） a large sum of audiences, affecting the availability of the arts. 
本段论述人们能否接触到艺术作品取决于不同的时代和社会；时代以文革为例，社会方面接的内容是资助方对艺术的影响。

文革的例子喜欢里面的让步部分~显得很清晰合理。资助方的影响这个角度很好！私以为可以继续发展一点，比如，为什么政府资助会让反映少数民众和穷人的艺术品难以reach a large sum of audiences？政府应该是一个中立的机构，如果说它对贫富有偏见从而对艺术的支持也有偏见，好像有些不妥。当然，私人的赞助人有偏见是完全可能的。建议点出“为了cater for 这些赞助人的喜好，艺术不得不放弃部分内容”。

A revealing artwork that reflects hidden ideas and impulses of a society has to reach a considerable amount of audiences to make the interpretation possible. The accomplishment of "revealing" hidden ideas and impulses depends on whether these interpretations are accurate and successful, which counts largely on the viewers. Meaningful and revealing paintings in Renaissance or novels in the sixties for some people could be mere abstractions to other groups of people. Despite this difference, the accuracy ofthe interpretation as a whole has been significantly dropped due to the speeding development of information dissimulation. Original meaning carried along with some great artistic works has been undermined(,) even distorted(,) in this fast-food dissimulation of some great artistic work that carry complicated meaning. Superficial understanding of famous expressionist painting, the Scream by Munch, is one example. What was once a serious expression on existential dread is now self-mocking symbol of stresses（做压力讲不可数） of modern life. The quality of audiences’ interpretation is actually critical for whether a masterpiece of art work implied with original ideas and impulses turn out to be revealing or not.
本段论述艺术作品要传达社会意识必须要经过正确的理解，而它能否被成功、准确地理解，则取决于观众。一方面不同的观众理解艺术作品的能力不同，另一方面现今的information dissimulation也阻碍了作品的原意的传达。两个例子都挺不错~


To conclude, hidden ideas and impulses of a society interjected in any art work, be is sarcastic novel or expressionist painting, could only be revealed through a successful communication with its audiences or viewers, which includes universal access and accurate interpretation.
虽然作者没有明确回答艺术是不是能reveal ideas，但全文给我的感觉是艺术reveal ideas要满足这么多条件，挺困难的，略有些倾向于否认题目的说法。个人觉得这种把问题说清楚，并给出一个倾向的行文显得比较全面而包容，先赞一个~ 然而比起主体部分，结尾显得有些偷懒= = 试试重申一下该问题的复杂性，然后加强一下倾向？个人意见，仅供参考，俺也不知道效果如何（摊手）

总之，这篇个人觉得很不错~从“对艺术作品的阐释”切入，接下来的论点都很清楚。例子也是，解释合理。嘿嘿这个题目我还没有看过，看了你的文，觉得很有启发~
加油哇！