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发表于 2010-7-31 09:30:29
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本帖最后由 费话先生 于 2010-7-31 10:04 编辑
TOPIC: ISSUE144 - "It is the artist, not the critic,* who gives society something of lasting value."
*a person who evaluates works of art, such as novels, films, music, paintings, etc.
The author claims that the artist rather than critic gives society something of external and universal value. Since the arts is a form for artists to provide beauty, pleasure and expressions of some private feelings, so whether a work of art such as a painting, a piece of music or a film is valuable or not relies on the talents of artists. From this point of view, I agree that artists are the most important factor to decide the value of a work of art. But it is unfair to exclude all merits of critics, since the critics also play an important though not indispensable role to help artists to give the future generation some lasting value.
The lasting value of arts can be definite as something worthy to be permanent. We feel it pleasure to see a great comedy like “Amelie” which removes us from the daily chaos. We also bathed ourselves in the calm beautiful paintings such as a seascape painting. Moreover, some expressions including the revelation of the then society or moral instructions, all provide us with rich sources to know what our human's have suffered or what accomplished we have achieved and inherited. All these will not disappear along with the death of artists or critics.
As I mention above, it is artists rather than critics that create those immortal art works full of beauty, pleasure and some expressions of their own. Without artists, any elaborate evaluation of art works is merely a castle in the air. We can ignore how New York Times appraise Spielberg’s films, but we cannot miss any chance to watch his film. Many people would agree that a great movie is far more important than the appraisement published on a certain column. Similarly, if there had no Van Gogh, there must had no “sunflower”, while if no critics in Van Gogh’s time, we still could appreciate the excellent painting. Thus, the artists can offer the society some lasting value without the participant of critic, but the critic cannot otherwise.
Moreover, it is artists not critics determine the internal value of an art work. To a large measure, how critics depreciate a certain great work will not impede us to enjoy it. For example, the titanic film, although a lot of critics have a strong opposition against it, we still burst into tears when jack saved rose in sacrifice of his own life. On the contrary, a volume of weak engravings, no matter how critics praise it,it will not provide us with entertainment or beauty. So, the artists should be most credited since they instead of critics decide the value of an art work, while what critics has said has nothing to do with the value of arts.
Although I agree that artists create the work the arts, we cannot ignore the merits of critics though they are secondarily important. First, they help artists to create more valuable works. Their critiques or reviews help artists to find their own defects and hence improve them afterwards. Some great critics such as Susannek Langer bring about many innovational theories on arts. Indeed, her books describing how to make criteria to determine the value of arts have regarded as beautiful literatures. Moreover, the critics still play an important role to the dissemination of arts. They guide the ordinary people to better know about the external meaning of arts. Without critics, there may be fewer people to realize the emotions embedded in Picasso’s abstract paintings.
In sum, the artists determine the value of the art works and hence carry on the precious value to us. If they are compared to a building, the critics are like the ornaments of a building. Under no circumstances would critics be posed to higher position. |
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