issue131,听说破题容易出问题，不知道这么写行不行，求指点

羽觞醉月UID: 2855246

离考试只有18天，写的第一篇issue，恰好抽到一个艺术类的写……貌似我整篇都没有反映otherwise（其实我也不知道这词到底要表达什么）而且为了写平衡观点写了一段艺术反映个人情感和思想与社会理念无关，但考虑到题目又没说艺术“only”反映社会理念，不知道我写上这么一段是不是多余。
哎，issue真让我绝望，时间也不够了，而且我这篇还不到500字……求各位指点下啊

131． The arts reveal the otherwise hidden ideas and impulses of a society.


提纲：
一．
艺术确实可以揭示隐藏的社会理念和动力。当一种社会理念还处在萌芽阶段时，最先反映它并推动它发展成完整的思想体系冲破桎梏的往往是艺术。举例：Dante’s Divine Comedy，开启文艺复习时代&Michelangelo’s sculpture work--David
二．
艺术可以用独特的方式表达公众无法表达的思想，特别是在专制统治下，这几乎是唯一表达思想情感的途径。这在许多诗歌和文学作品中得到体现（记得等下找例子，最好不要毕加索）
三．
艺术有时用来表达艺术家的个人感情，甚至只是一种灵感的记录。与社会无关。前者比如 Yeats. 后者比如Salvador Dali，famous for his surrealistic work, 他的作品描绘各种怪异的梦境和形象仅仅是表现他的想象
总结：  艺术是人类内心的外化，它具有多种形式，因而可以表达几乎一切人们渴望表达的东西


What are arts and what are arts for? This issue might be controversial since everyone has his or her view. I fundamentally agree that arts reveal otherwise hidden ideas and impulses of a society as the speaker asserts. However, arts also serve to express emotion and thoughts of individuals.

Since arts are originally means by which a community develops for itself a medium for self-expression and interpretation, one of the most important functions of arts is self-expression in whatever era. In many cases pictures, music and literature that are highly appreciated by the public are just reflection of artists’ private emotion, or even just record of instantaneous inspiration. When reading lyrics composed by Yeats I’m often deeply moved, when viewing Dali’s surrealistic work I’m often shocked. Being a medium for human’s emotion and thought and fantastic imagination arts are infectious itself, even having little relevant relationship to society.

On the other hand are two points lending support to the speaker’s assertion. First of all, consider those great avant-garde artists who are endowed with natural clairvoyance which enables them to play roles as pioneers in awakening social awareness of hidden ideas which are advanced but temporarily in germinal stage. Their works enlighten the public who are confined by tradition to realize the social ideas existing long but ignored before. Take the Renaissance for example, it was Dante’s epic poem Divine Comedy in which theology had been challenged for the first time that opened a door to the later Renaissance. Thenceforth, a series of masterpiece that emphasized on humanity rather than deity, depicted figures of human rather than god appeared, giving significant resonance to the public, and ultimately changed the ethos thoroughly.

Or consider the situation under despotism where people are deprived of freedom of the speech and press. Being oppressed by tyranny, no one dares to express hatred or antagonism against the authority directly, which makes arts the only way to deliver hidden ideas of the whole society. Caricatures and burlesques containing ironies toward the dictatorship are created, pictures are painted under the theme of anti-tyranny. Since ideas are revealed through implicit connotation of literature and pictures rather than specific letters and colors, the possibility that arts survive censorship is much larger than that demonstrations are allowed the authority.

In sum, arts are various forms of externalization of human’s mental activities. They can reveal hidden social ideas and impulses just because these ideas are already at the bottom of people’s heart. Arts are just carries, yet they can carry almost all kinds of thought of human beings.

羽觞醉月UID: 2855246

发上来直观的看出我的issue还没有版上诸位牛人的一半的篇幅……悲痛一下

shadow1987UID: 2605840

哎，这道题我也觉得挺难，但是我大体看看你的思路，觉得有点想写跑偏的冲动诶
因为人家说的是arts reveal ideas and impulses of society，没说arts express emotion and thought啊，也没说arts除了ideas and impulses就不能reveal别的东西，也就是你可能白忙活半天论证你的观点。所以我觉得你得咬住他的topic，说你的理解。
我的思路是同意topic，然后把题目拆成ideas和impulses两段论述，再让步说即便有些艺术家为政治所迫创作一些垃圾，那还是从侧面反应了当时的客观情况，并且这些情况是被刻意hidden的，topic依然成立。

羽觞醉月UID: 2855246

谢谢LS指点。我当时是想平衡观点不知道用什么来however，写完自己也觉得牵强。
谢谢啦~
再有就是不知道题目中otherwise表达什么意思
以及有没有同学能拍下这篇作文哪

doraliuUID: 2842061

otherwise  as i understand it in this assertion ......指的是nagetive (from wikipedia)我理解的是艺术能表达文字没法表达的观点，社会wish or urge； 我想也还要是说明hidden ideas跟impulse吧

bestrose7UID: 2783413

我不明白impluse是什么意思啊~~是和TREND一类的么。。。
10号考，看来玩了……

一木菩提UID: 2390164

otherwise hidden ideas... 意译过来，即通过其他方法表现不出来（hidden）的idea

不是单纯地说艺术表现了神马。而是应该把艺术和其他的表现手法比较，艺术表现的东西是不是exclusively unique that could not be revealed by other means? 这是这个题目希望你回答的。

具体下手的话，
首先应该把艺术这个词限定一下，什么是art？从音乐，绘画，戏剧各个方面来说。
然后应该那个“otherwise”指代的东西具体化，反映一个社会的impluse & ideas除了艺术还有其他的什么方法？史料算不算？数据和报告算不算？录像算不算？
这样你才有比较的双方。
之后进入题目，比较一番得出自己的结论。