[i习作temp] Issue131——艺术揭示社会理念和动力，欢迎互拍 [复制链接]

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Issue131——"The arts (painting, music, literature, etc.) reveal the otherwise hidden ideas and impulses of a society."

观点：不是所有艺术都揭露社会理念和动力，但大师作品都会。
分论点：
1. 艺术表现的是艺术家的思考，所以未必反映社会理念和动力。
2. 但艺术也能用来反映社会理念和动力。
3. 经典的传世之作大多反映了社会理念和动力。

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What is art? According to Freud, art is a kind of release of individual lust, converting the human libido into plentiful creativity. Since arts are simply a reflection of the artists, they do not reveal the hidden ideas and impulses of a society all the time. On the other hand however, if we examine the history of air carefully, we will find that great works are the arts that reveal human characters and social ideas.
Arts are created by artists, and therefore arts, in essence, are the expression of the artists, which might not have something to do with revelation of social ideas and impulses. For example, romantic love stories written by Jane Austen, such as Pride and Prejudice, stand on the view that one of the ways for a woman to raise her social status is to find a husband who owns both money and gentry. These works reflect more of her own senses than the ideas and impulses of a society, because the idea of pursuing for an outstanding husband is a human character which has remained for centuries and will definitely last, which cannot be described as impulses of a society. Another example is the Heroic Symphony, which was composed by Beethoven to honor and praise the wise general Napoleon. However, he felt disappointed after Napoleon announced himself the King and altered the original title of the symphony which contains the name of Napoleon. This composition reflects completely the political view of Beethoven, since there actually lay little demurs for Napoleon to be the King and therefore his view mixed in the composition cannot be called the ideas and impulses of a society.
Arts, on the other hand, do have the function to reveal ideas and impulses in a society. Artists are people who live in a society and their ideas can somehow be regarded as the representative of contemporary people. For instance, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a novel highly praised by President Lincoln, has aroused great sympathy for the African Americans who have been the slaves in the plantations in the South. This novel reflects the miserable lives of the salves and their pursuits for happiness and love, and some comments even describe the novel as the one which directly leads to the Civil War. We cannot gainsay that this novel reveals the ideas and impulses of the American society. Picasso is another example in the painting field. His painting work Guernica, which is a quite abstract one, denounced the German’s bombing in Guernica in the Spain Civil War, which involved in hundreds of thousands of innocent people. This work reveals not only his hatred, but also the accusation of the imperialism and the demands for peace of the whole society.
Even if both styles exist in art field, there is fact which cannot be denied is that those influential works in art own the function of revealing social ideas and impulses. One of the most important reasons why these works deserve being defined as the great works is that the social ideas and impulses which are contained in these works strike a sympathetic chord in the viewers and critics. For example, the Catcher in the Rye, the book which George Bush considered one of the books that affected him most, has called for the society attention to the spiritual demands for youngsters, which evoked the same feeling of many readers. The Old Man and the Sea, written by Hemingway, mirrors the ideas and impulses of the American society to overcome difficulties and head for success. Millions of readers have been moved by the famous saying which I paraphrase that “Men can be annihilated, but they should not be defeated.” These works which are regarded as classics own the feature in common that they all disclose the human character and the social ideas.
As Picasso said, “Art is a lie that tells us the truth”. It is because exaggerated methods are adopted that art is a lie, and it is because of the social function of arts to reveal the society ideas and impulses that art tells us the truth. It remains the truth that not all arts should head for society ideas and impulses, but at least those masterpieces should.

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