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101"Governments should provide funding for artists so that the arts can flourish and be available to all people."
I concede that sometimes governments should fund artists, and they possibly play a part to help arts develop and be available to people. However, the above assertion involves two problems that need further consideration, one is: should governments fund arts? The other is: must arts be available to all people? Answers to these question can help us well address this above issue.
Should government fund the artists on earth? In so far as I can think, arts should not deserve this assistance. Admittedly, governmental fund in a sense can help artists to create artworks and in turn lead to the survival and development of the art. Usually, artists have less economic resources since almost no enterprise and organization are reluctant to provide the salary for artists; moreover, they have to travel everywhere to pursue their inspiration which cost most of the private property. Consequently, economic problems always pester the artists and prevent them from continuing their undertaking. Thus the investment from the government may tackle their economic problems, reassure them to concentrate on their creations. Otherwise, how artists can promulgate their works? It also because of the governmental fund that they can set up their own exposition to exhibit their works. Although government funds can to some extent help artists and arts survival, however, they can never help them thrive. Governmental fund is only a kind of material support to arts rather than the spiritual support. Excellent and unparalleled artworks lie in art’s soul and spirit, which come from imagination, creativity and free mind of artists. What’s more seriously, governmental fund, a kind of intervention, can not only impact the artists' creative thinking but it also affect the content, main topic and significance that the works want to express. Finally, the freedom of creation and the integrity of arts are damaged.
There are more reasons can justify that government should not fund artists. On the one hand, (呵呵,政府的功能又来了)the major functions of government are to prompt the economical development and keep social stability, to warrant people's safe and the integrity of its land, they also have to tackle with various national and international affairs, and to address more pressing and impending problems such as environment pollution, poverty, famish, etc., all of them need much of the governmental budget and the energy of officials, so it is unnecessary for government to invest in arts after weighting the importance of all problems need to be solved. In addition, arts can not merely be funded by the government, many private companies and magnates willingly fund the art. For example, Rockefeller Financial Group and Bill gates allot much of their money to support arts annually.
Let us see the other question: should artworks be accessible to all people? It is also unnecessary to do this, as I think. Many works are the outgrowth of artists' exclusive and even fantastic imagination, so the content, configuration and the inner connotation of the works often can not be comprehended by the public and even overreach the knowledge scope of those seasoned critics. Either meeting the taste of the public or teaching the public how to appreciate the exquisite works is not the work of the artists. If those who do not know arts at all give some ridiculous and fatuous remark to those classic artworks, this would be really a profanity to arts. Popularizing their artworks is not the decisive factor for the flourish of arts, but the inherent soul of artworks indeed is, just as I present above. This is to say that artworks should have impressive power to inspire people’s emotion and resonance deep in their mind and should process the sustained vitality.
All in all, it is unnecessary for government to fund for the artists to make their works approachable for all people as governmental fund can damage the integrity of arts to some extent. Arts needs the freedom to develop and thrive, but the development and thrive of arts lie not in being available to all people but in artists who can freely express their creative thoughts and endue their works with vitality. |
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