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144"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.
Does the artist or the critic give society something of lasting value? Faced with this controversial issue, the speaker claims it is the artist, not the critic. I concede that the some of the critic help the society progress. Otherwise, in my view, it is the artist, just like the speaker says, who does the most significant work to give society something that could be lasted forever. In the following discussion, I would like to present several aspects to support my standpoint.
There are several reasons why I have almost the same opinion, one of which is that the artist is defined by us as the person who does the great effect to human beings. As the president of a famous Art college in my country once said in the beginning of term (and I paraphrase):" Do not tell others you are the artist, at least in the following for years. The artist, those who can be called artist by majority is the person who can give humans the idea that can be lasted after his/her death hundreds years." This illustrates the point that the society treat the artist as the person who contribute a lot to us. Consequently, it is the real fact that the artist gives society something of lasting value.
Besides, the further reason that must be taken into consideration is that most of the critic does little things to do but criticize, and in fact many of them have not enough knowledge about what they criticize. Further more, some critics even understand what they want to argue totally. To illustrate this, there is an appropriate example that is very persuasive: In the present age, there is many and many false argument about some famous person or his/her production. Understandably, the so called critic (actually, his/her title is the critic), making the argument, just want to be famous in the public.
While, on the other hand, if the society ignores those real critics who gives the sincere suggestion, it will bad for the progress of us. This assumption can be understood easily. After all, the argument they provide is the supplement of the idea made by the artist, and actually is the part of something that lasting value. Without them, the artist could not find their perspective's flaw, and what they give to society is not incomplete.
In sum, something of lasting value is always left by the artist, for their imagination could bring human the creative perspective. However, the society also could not erase all critics’ idea. It will be best to the society to adopt most of the artist's excellent opinion while consider about the critic who has the true attitude.
[ 本帖最后由 staralways 于 2006-3-7 10:21 编辑 ] |
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