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Issue144
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作者:寄托家园作文版普通用户 共用时间:45分2秒 597 words
从2005年2月14日9时37分到2005年2月14日10时45分
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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.
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It is well known that artists create works, while critics comment on works. Based on their difference in function, I fundamentally agree with the speaker that the "lasting" value was given by artist rather than critics, although critics, to certain extent, make values as well.
First of all, there lies a puzzling question to distinguish the lasting value from the common one. As far as I am concerned, what the artists contribute to society-- their works-- is established at the moment they are created. In other words, the artistic value of a specific piece of works are defined and remained alternative since it was accomplished. For example, the artistic value of the novel "The Great Expectations" lies in the pages of the books which cannot be changed due to the comments from critics and the ethical aspects of the public. Also we can turn to look at the Spielberg's films, Beethoven's music, and Van Gogh's paintings; they are all experiencing both praises and criticism in different eras by different critics. However, their lasting value remained silently and waited patiently to be discovered when they were born. Thus their critical value is created by the artist themselves rather than the outside condition.
Compared with the artists, the critics are more likely to trap themselves into specific social condition and personal experience in which most of the value they make proves to be meteoric eventually. Lacking of the consistency of minds of a specific artist, the critics are easily make himself into the opposite side of other critics. Due to the difference lying in personal experience and characteristics, as well as the aspects to examine the artistic works and the knowledge they are equipped, their criticism have obvious limitation. For supporting example, one needs to look no further than the historical documentaries on the variable comments and analysis on Hamlet, one of the most famous characteristics in Shakespeare's works. Almost the criticisms, no matter how they are organized and written, are sleeping quietly in the museum and library rather than wide spreading in the modern society. People nowadays, tend to buy the original book to read and establish their "Hamlet" on own rather than listening to a teacher saying what is right or wrong. From this point of view, the critics, although they sweat on making values through analysis of the artistic works, contribute little thing that could last long for the whole society.
Admittedly, there exist few critics who regard their criticism as a new works rather than merely the copy of the original one thus to generate creative things that will last long. For instance, Qian Zhongshu, a very famous critic on traditional Chinese poetry, has published a book to analyze and comment on the poems in Song Dynasty. At first people mistook the book for an ordinary criticism book; however, after reading thoroughly, people realized that quantity of involvement of personal experience and feelings overwhelm the purely analysis and boring criticism. The book itself is not critical things, but a new works to express his feelings and opinions. Therefore, it is not difficult to conclude that the biases on all critics are unfair since they could create new things on the basis of the original ones thus make lasting value to society.
To sum up, it is the artist who makes lasting value to society, while critic helps people to understand them better. The function of artists and critics are distinguished obviously; however, the critics, if used their talents into the process of express themselves instead of pure analysis, could make value to be permanently.
实际上只写了40分钟
最后5分钟用来改了两个小地方
贴到word里还是发现错误一堆
再回头看又觉得毛病也不少了~
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