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Issue85"Government funding of the arts threatens the integrity of the arts."
When human beings came to the Earth, they also brought with arts. In different countries in the world, there are all kinds of arts, such as music, painting, poem, novelty, and so on. Artists usually need money and public support to create their arty works. Meanwhile, there is a debate whether arts need the government's funding between different individuals. In the point of my opinion, I hold the view that it is necessary for arts to get the support from government's funding, but sometimes it would threaten the integrity of the arts.
In human's history, many famous arty works came to the world without any government's funding. In the Middle Age in Europe, so many artists accomplished their famous achievements without any funding from government. For example, Van Gogh, who was one of the great artists in our world, created many paintings. In Van Gogh's time, he did not get any funding from government even the support from public. But under this situation, he created a large number of works, such as the Sunflower, which is one of the expensive and famous paintings in our modern society. Beethoven is another example. His Symphony No.5 is popular in all corner of the world, but he also did not get the funding of government. Therefore, without the funding of government, many artists also could create famous works.
In the modern society, especially in the market economy, government funding arts could benefit the creation of arts. In order to understand the gist of the statement, it is necessary to see an example. Singapore government always offers funding to the artists in the country. But the government never regulates the kinds of arts, which the artists have to create. As is known to all, the arts in Singapore are heath and contain nearly all kinds of them. Meanwhile, in India, especially in the market economy, ordinary people do not like poems. If they do not get the funding from the government, many poets would not write any poems in the future. So Indian government funds poets to keep working on creating poems. Thus, from the two instances mentioned above, it can be concluded that artists in the modern society usually need the funding from government.
However, if the government extraordinarily funds arts, it would harm the integrity of them. The typical instance is U.S.S.R. In the 1950s to the 1990s, the U.S.S.R. government always funded the arts. In order to get the funding from the government, many artists in U.S.S.R. chose to create some arty works, which the government preferred to. After several decades' development, the integrity of the arts in U.S.S.R. has been heavily threatened. Many kinds of arts have disappeared and many people thought that due to the funding of government, the integrity of arts had been harmed. As a result, if the government extraordinarily funds the arts, the integrity of arts would be threatened.
To sum up, it is necessary to consider the topic whether government should fund the arts on a case-by-case basis. As the reasons mentioned above, some arty works were created without the funding of government. At the same time, proper funding would be good for the development of arts, but sometimes it would have negative effects. |
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