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144 "It is the artist, not the critic, who gives society something of lasting value."
Do artists or critics give society something of lasting value?[这个问句在这里是什么作用呢?是不是那个or没用好啊?呵呵,个人意见] Although critics are helpful, more often than not, to interpret and evaluate the art, I fundamentally agree with the assertion that the lasting value for society exists in art itself other than in the critique.
Admittedly, [I concede that critics help laymen understand the art work well since they are familiar with its background, author and meaning to the author's contemporaries.] [I also concede that the constructive critique, which is critics’ feedback to certain art works, gives artists more idea to improve works and may even inspire artists to create new genre and style. ][这两个观点都很好]
However, [any persons who have studied arts when and where will agree that the true art is a product of artists’ authentic passion, a manifestation of the artist's unique creative impulses and a creativity of the artists' spirit.] Thus, [referring to the lasting value这里突出的很好,赞!], the artists, who create art, play a profound role to give society more thoughts and ideas. Appreciating an art work is like having a talk with artists so that we are conveyed more information from arts. If we prefer to gain critics' talk content with artists other than to participating positively in the communication, [the lasting value of the art for society may be ignored or filtrated by critic's narrow and subjective evaluation conforming to the established and out-dated standard.清晰的观点,很好] Examples from painting, music and literature support the point.
[In the realm of painting], when Monet's "Impression, Sunrise" first displaced in one Salon in Paris, it didn't win any praise but all critique from the critics. They excluded this type of painting since there was no genre had put so much emphasis on the usage of sunlight before impressionism. However, it was Impressionism that has epochal meaning to Western Arts. Monet introduced sunlight outside as an element to describe the nature. What’s more, by his painting, Monet, as an artist, gave the society new concept of beauty and gave birth to many genre afterwards. On the contrary, critics attempted to judge Impressionism according to the former principle and might be surprised ultimately that what they regarded as nonsense became the new leaf in history of art.[例子很好,评论的也很到位]
[In the realm of music], the esteemed critics, who were accustomed to the predictable harmonious and melodious length of Haydn, dismissed Beethoven's music as literally causing their ear to hurt. In fact, Beethoven, as an artist, converted the sorrow and frustration in our life into enthusiasm and infuriation to overcome the obstacle by the symphony. From his music world, the society obtains courage and strength continuously. Therefore, if we follow such critique, we may miss the greatest music and a collision with the heart of a greatest musician. [这段同样不错]
[In the realm of literature], there also existed a significant writer whose works were criticized as barbaric. He was Shakespeare. Voltaire, who was immersed in the spirit to discover a way of reconciling new ideas with old classic faith, condemned Shakespeare's literature because he didn’t conform to the neo-classical principle of unity. Nonetheless, his critique didn't interrupt society to gain the lasting value from Shakespeare’s works. Shakespeare endowed his work the roman and optimism accord with the movie "Shakespeare in Love" as well as the realism and profundity like the prince's word "To be or Not To Be". His thoughts influenced the era of Renaissance and gave persons more lasting value.[同样精彩的论述]
In sum up, the essence of art, which are conveyed to the society as lasting value is thoughts of artists not the critique of critics. Without critics, art is still art. Whereas without artists, art is nothing.
[很成功的一篇文章,使我受益匪浅。谢谢楼主分享!] |
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