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By definition, arts are the vehicles to convey ideas and emotions. The assertion made by the speaker that arts reveal the otherwise hidden ideas of a society partly generalize about arts because it only refers to some of the ideas. In fact, by the number of people these ideas shared, arts should be categorized into two sorts: the majority people's arts and the minority of people's arts.
For the majority of people's arts, mostly they are the reflection of the mainstream ideas. The first reason should account for that is most people's ideas are in accordance with the theme of their times. For example, Christian was the dominant theme of the medieval age; accordingly, paintings of that period were permeated with ample Christian content-Trinity, virgin birth of Christ, Holy mother, and so forth. When it comes to wartime, art works serve to reflect the anti-war theme of the time emerge; take Guernia, a painting by Picasso during the Spanish Civil War, depicts the German bombing of Guernia as a example. The second reason is that those who seize the power only uphold some artists who cater to their tastes while abhor and even suppress others. Eventually, their tastes become dominant and mainstream along with accepted by most people consciously or unconsciously. On one hand, Renaissance artists, Leonardo Da Vince included, were often invited by the kings to paint those Christian content murals and paintings; on the other hand, Picasso, whose artistic style did not fit the Nazi views of art, was prohibited to exhibit his works by the Nazi government during the Second World War. In short, some mundane concerns made the most of the art works reflections of the dominant ideas.
As for the minority of people's arts, they reveal the otherwise hidden ideas. Query whether we were able to find peace in heart and take a voyage of spiritual discovery in Walden if Thoreau had spared no efforts in describing the hostility between The North and The South like his contemporaries did. Given that Repin, a famous Russian painter, only had tried to amuse the czar by giving him a portrait like other painters had, could we perceive the suffering inflicted on individuals in his time from the" Volga Barge Haulers"? Assume that Salinger had only concentrated on the main theme of postwar American-the Cold War, rather than wrote the Catcher in the Rye, could we recognize the Beat Generation? Those all representatives of minority of people's artist, they disregarded the mundane concerns and eventually brought about ideas only few shared.
As vehicles to convey the ideas and emotion, arts inherently reflect ideas of all kinds, and ideas spring from free wills, thus, arts are ultimately expression of free wills. Since free wills can not be restrained by anything-time, space, nation, race; thus, arts can refer to any realm in life, no matter it is exposed or hidden, dominant or otherwise. Vincent van Gogh express his zeal for life in the Sunflower; Salvador Dali show his surrealistic notion in the Persistence of Memory; Beethoven originally intended to praise Napoleon with Eroica Symphony; they all pouring their emotions and ideas into their works. Arts also serve as bright mirror of history. In those years permeated with tyranny and dictatorship, where there is oppression, there is rebellion described in art works; where there is war, there is a call for peace in art works. In a word, arts can go wherever our free wills go.
In the final analysis, arts reveal not only the otherwise hidden ideas and impulses of a society, but also those dominant notable ones. As one of the ultimate expressions of free wills, arts play a vital role in conveying people’s ideas of all kinds.
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