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The speaker asserts that it is the artist rather than critics serve as the main contribution to long lasting arts. While, I fundamentally disagree with this assertion for it ,to some extent, overstate the role of the artists in the creation of a long lasting works while, neglect the value of the critics towards the artistic works. Close scrutiny shows that one priceless works needs the association of the artists and critics.
Admittedly, artists do create long lasting value for the whole society. On the one hand, artists make people enjoy the beauty or give them encouragement in spirit. For instance, Mona Lisa created by Leonardo da Vinci and Chopin's music are seen to be priceless, which bring people strong feelings of beauty and people always are intoxicated with them. On the other hand, these works of artists are likely to stimulate people to think deeply about their lives and the surroundings. Mark Twain's fictions reflected the social reality at that period and initiated readers' deeper thought about their own life. Those thoughts may bring us beneficial directions, to some extent, which are more important than these works themselves. Works created by artists always place long lasting influence to the readers and contain perpetual values.
Undeniably, critics could also create long lasting values, which are easily ignored. Literary Salon was popular all over the Europe in the 18th century. The critics made oral discussions about the latest novels created by the writers. Those discussions covered the artistic value and structures of the fictions, aesthetic feelings and the literal background, all of which could be quite helpful to the writers. Since the major value created by critics is the invisible thought rather than these visible things such as the paintings, novels and architectures, the important roles critics play in the creation of long lasting value are easily ignored. As is well known to all, the creation of a work of art is mainly the subjective representation of the emotions, observations, values and tastes of the artist. What is less recognized is that, in fact, the examination and review of art works, as done by critics, is also highly subjective procedure. Therefore, by reviewing art works, art critics are, to some extent, recreating the work in their own way.
Moreover, a critic who is familiar with a particular artist and his or her art works can help us understand and interpret art. Plenty of perpetual art works were discovered in this way. Just like a perfect diamond, if it was not selected and burnished carefully, it would never shine resplendently. Van Gogh's paintings would be nameless without the critics. Don Quixote would still be considered to be put-on without the preface of the book added by the later critics. Who could understand Picasso's collage without the critics' explanation? Critics contribute to the development of the study in the realm of arts and ultimately help the artists to create a better works in the future achievement.
In sum, artists and critics supplement and also rely on each other. As time passes, the perfect works with long lasting value are those which are created by artists and evaluated by critics.

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The speaker asserts that it is the artist rather than critics serve as the main contribution to long lasting arts. While, I fundamentally disagree with this assertion for it ,to some extent, overstate（overstates） the role of the artists in the creation of a long lasting works while, neglects the value of the critics towards the artistic(artistic's) works. Close scrutiny shows that one priceless works(work) needs the association of the artists and critics.
Admittedly, artists do create long lasting value for the whole society. On the one hand, artists make people enjoy the beauty or give them encouragement in spirit. For instance, Mona Lisa created by Leonardo da Vinci and Chopin's music are seen to be(are seen to be 是表达被看作的意思么？可以用are considered to be) priceless, which bring people strong feelings of beauty and people always are intoxicated with them. On the other hand, these works of artists are likely to stimulate people to think deeply about their lives and the surroundings. Mark Twain's fictions reflected the social reality at that period and initiated readers' deeper thought about their own life. Those thoughts may bring us beneficial directions, to some extent, which are more important than these works themselves. Works created by artists always place long lasting influence to the readers and contain perpetual values.
Undeniably, critics could also create long lasting values, which are easily ignored. Literary Salon was popular all over the Europe in the 18th century. The critics made oral discussions about the latest novels created by the writers. Those discussions covered the artistic value and structures of the fictions, aesthetic feelings and the literal background, all of which could be quite helpful to the writers. Since the major value created by critics is the invisible thought rather than these visible things such as the paintings, novels and architectures, the important roles critics play in the creation of long lasting value are easily ignored.(觉得这里论证的很好) As is well known to all, the creation of a work of art is mainly the subjective representation of the emotions, observations, values and tastes of the artist. What is less recognized is that, in fact, the examination and review of art works, as done by critics, is also highly subjective procedure. Therefore, by reviewing art works, art critics are, to some extent, recreating the work in their own way.
Moreover, a critic who is familiar with a particular artist and his or her art works can help us understand and interpret art. Plenty of perpetual art works were discovered in this way. Just like a perfect diamond, if it was not selected and burnished carefully, it would never shine resplendently. Van Gogh's paintings would be nameless without the critics. Don Quixote would still be considered to be put-on without the preface of the book added by the later critics. Who could understand Picasso's collage without the critics' explanation? Critics contribute to the development of the study in the realm of arts and ultimately help the artists to create a（a 去掉） better works in the future achievement.
In sum, artists and critics supplement and also rely on each other. As time passes, the perfect works with long lasting value are those which are created by artists and evaluated by critics.
中间有些想法很好哦，我写时都没有想到。最后一句的总结也很好。
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这是我写的，你也看看，帮我提提意见哦！

    Is it the artist, not the critic who gives society something of lasting value? Answers are quite different from people to people. As I am concerned, my answer is in the negative. I hold the idea that even though the artists give us something of lasting value, so do the critics.
    It is undoubtedly that the artist gives something of lasting value to the society. First, art works, created by the artists, give people pleasant sensory comforts, such as the portrait work The Mona Lisa’s Smile of Leonardo da Vinci, music of Beethoven etc. They help people to get the access to the beauty of the nature, the society, and the wonderful world, and even some times give people encourages. Second, artists are very creative, they create some particular art works to convey special ideas, emotions, cultures as well as values, and these art works also provide a significant and unique mirror for the society, both for the contemporary one and the future generations'. They use their products to represent society’s present situations, including the appearance of people, the living conditions of the citizens, the special culture and customs and so on. The works of the artists effectively reflect all aspects of the society. In a word, artists have been admittedly providing something of lasting value to the society.
Even though the artists play an important role in giving something of lasting value to the society, so do the critics. To begin with, critics make a much easier access to the art for ordinary people. Critics with a certain knowledge of art help to conduct the ones with little cognition of art to the art realm. Based on the critics' understanding and interpreting of the art, the beginners will get familiar with the art much more quickly and easily. And then they can appreciate the art by themselves and have deeper insights into those art works. Then, critics help people to save lots of time on selecting the art works. It's quite obvious that people are always engaged in various affairs in modern society. Thus too much time and attention on quite a mass of art works is absolutely impossible for modern individuals. With the help of the critique on the works of art, it takes only a brief moment for people to find out what they really want and need. What's more, artists also reap certain benefits from critics most of the time. Critics help artists to know their works better from different perspectives. Some pertinent proposals will act as catalysts for artists’ growth, and will corresponding result in better art works. Take Alfred Tennyson, a famous English poet of Victorian age, as an example. Arthur Henry Hallam, a person who was not only Tennyson’s best friend, but also his loyal reader as well as the most severe critic of his poems, had great influence on Tennyson's literary life. His earnest criticism, instructive and constructive suggestions helped Tennyson achieve great success in the poetry. Therefore, critics also contribute to give society something of lasting value.
    To sum up, from the above analysis, it’s easy for us to have the conclusion that not only the artists but also the critics can give something of lasting value to the society. Both of them play an important part to the art. The only difference is just the disparate ways that they play.