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保持原貌没润色,改了语法错误
几乎纯说理,不知道行不行
字数不少了,再加例子要上700了
Issue144
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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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I strongly agree with the title statement that it is the artist, not the critic, who gives society something of lasting value. From the perspective of history of art, the value of artworks had been determined at the moment it was born in the hand of the artist while the critic serves to be footnote to the true masterpiece, which neither diminishes the value of certain art work, nor improves it.
Admittedly, it is not to say that critics are of no use at all. In at least three aspects, they function well. First, critics interpret the meaning of artworks or otherwise hidden impulse of society the artworks refer to. Some artworks are abstractly reflections of the inner world of artist; others express the thinking and concern of the artists to their contemporaries events. In the art world, devoid of the help of critics, who, more often than not, have profund knowledge and ample experience as to assess the scope, thoroghness, quality of artworks, the common people cannot "read" artists at heart. Second, a critic serves as a "filter" and helps us to determine which is more likely worthwhile and deserved our time and money to focus on, especially considering the myriads of artists existed before and plethora of new pieces emerging everyday. Third, critics can provide feedback, if wholehearted, might help artists improve both their technical and intellectual proficiency. In turn, artist can bring back more excellent works.
While it is sound that critics work in above three aspects, close inspection revels that even in the very three aspects; the critics give little realistic value to masterpieces and society. In some cases, they are even counterproductive to the evaluation of artists and their endeavors. The reason lies in two aspects. One is that no one can guarantee that the critique is objective and has no intervention by other factors. For example, if some famous critics are controlled by certain media moguls, who are incline to bolster one artist as well as debase another. Also, consider the critics have some family relationship or close friendship with one artist, maybe the glorification is overrated.
The other factor lies in that the evaluation might be unavoidably limited by the individual perspective and personal favor. In this case, the artists might be just and believable persons and enthusiastic to make right and objective judgment. Unfortunately, due to their personal limitation in knowledge and inquiry, they might make an opposite judgment. Thus, the besmirched masterpiece cannot gain its deserving evaluation. We, common people, might also be misguided by those critics since in our view, they are experts and less make mistakes.
As to the third function of critic, if saying some known artworks are born in the way enduring trial and error process; few masterpieces are produced this way. True measure of art stems from the impact of spirit sparks, the critical thinking to the common life and lonely inquiry to the nature or the society, not in the synthesis of viewpoints of critics. Also, true art masters never pander to the critics for the purpose of improving their reputations and fames; in contrast, they endure the loneliness to develop the laws and principles of nature, human beings and society, exhibit passion and sense in music, painting, novels, sculpture, etc.
In all, true value of preeminent masterworks lies not in the words of critics, but rather in the lines and colors of paintings, the notes in the symphony, and the staves in the melody. Critic, though do some services to the appreciation for audiences and feedback to the artists, by nature, they come to no good to determine whether an art work is great, or not.
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