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发表于 2010-1-29 00:58:16
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本帖最后由 家家☆yoonjae 于 2010-2-1 09:34 编辑
TOPIC: ISSUE131 - "The arts (painting, music, literature, etc.) reveal the otherwise hidden ideas and impulses of a society."
WORDS: 526
TIME: 01:12:15
DATE: 2010/1/29 0:35:30
According to Pluto, art, defined as the process or production of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions, could be roughly classified into two catalogues: liberal arts and servile ones. In some extent, it is the liberal arts that voice folks' desire and social hidden ideas rather than servile ones.
There exists a proverb cited as the truth for every liberal artist: real works come from true life. Ever since the art once defined as the artificial works fashioned by human beings aiming at entertain people, it cannot get rid of the influence from civilians as well as society. In early times, the word art referred to a wide range of activity and skill for residents to survive and adorn in a community, such as shoemaking, medicine, agriculture and potting. In the process of civilization and human beings comprehensive development, artists began to absorb the core content and attitude from daily labor and other experience in social life. For instance, the well-known carton figure, Uncle Sam, is the full abstraction of normal Americans, it contains distinctive characters and aspirations which only possessed by that time's society.
Whether ancient period or modern time, people and society are the foundation for any art's creation, art acts as the window for society to express its inner characters.
In addition, because liberal arts have the advantage over its capacity to express the inner desire, impulse or dissatisfaction in a more abstract way that other methods lack, the most hidden ideas of society which could not be expressed directly is able to be released through art. Just imagine, how can a person expand his community's inner desire? Loud shouting can be only heard by little amount of people, wordy transmission from person to person suffers from deadly slow pace and undesired misunderstanding. Only a way that is abstract enough to get every person interpret and facilitate its delivery can meet the need of
this kind of expression. There comes the liberal art.
On the contrary, servile art, due to its original purpose's defects, speaks more on behalf of the sponsors, to be more specifically: dominators, rather than the folks. The aim of establishing it is just to accomplish the art as a dominating tools and an approach to exhibit the ruler's power. We can easily verify this assertion through taking a glance over several European cathedrals built in medieval. Notre Dame, one of the most illustrious cathedrals in EU, is an excellent work of servile art. When you place yourself in the big hall, apart from its religious and imperial magnificent, you can hardly get a sense of people's inner desire for the better life and hidden dissatisfaction for repression. To some extent, servile art could not be called as art any more.
In sum, real art acquire its resource from civilians, and pays back to civilians with its final work; it acts as the people’s mouth, it help people to express the inner wishes, it uncovers the hidden impulse of the people. In contrast, the fake art or the servile ones could be just regarded as a tool for money at best. |
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