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第一篇写,感觉语言贫乏啊... 欢迎高手来指点~
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.
第一段,正面谈艺术的价值,举例说明人们value art than critique.
第二段,分析原因一
第三段,原因二,critics的局限性。
第四段,让不说明critics也有一定的作用
I agree with the statement’s assertion that art, not art critic, provides something of lasting value to society. Although the critic has some merit in art, they have certain limitations and restrictions in creating works of lasting value.
First and foremost, it can be viewed and verified by myriads of examples in our daily life that masterpieces of art, mainly in form of painting, sculpture, architecture, and photography and new media, leave our society with priceless value. For example, people can name right out the masters of the High Renaissance: Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Titan, but few know even one of the critic contemporaneous with them; great works in all forms of art are exhibited in museums around the world, while critiques can be rarely seen there; people spend millions of dollars to purchase artworks by auction, whereas critiques worth little. The above examples illustrate from three aspects that art is indeed of tremendous lasting value to the society.
This phenomenon can be ascribed to several reasons. One is that the way artists work is to create beauty, to express their thoughts, and to reflect the culture of their times; the way critics work is mostly based on the artwork of those artists, and is to comment, to criticize and to appreciate, thus is accessory to art. The artist is like an ingenious scientist who discovers those fundamental laws in nature, but the critic is just one that can understand the laws and explain them to ordinary people, so critic itself does not create much value.
Another reason why works of critics contribute less to our society is that they have strong limitations of their times, from diverse sources such as religion, mainstream cognizance, and the taste of the majority. Since writing critique is rather a vocation than an interest to critics, they have to present the ordinary people with what they favor and they judge the works with criteria accepted by the mainstream society, even with somewhat jealousness as most critics are unsuccessful artists. With such attitude and thoughts in mind, critics are like to undermine works of art that later turn out to be masterpieces. One famous example is Van Gogh. To conclude, critics sometimes can be even counterproductive to achieving the objective of art.
Admittedly, critics do have their contribution to the cause of art in their particular ways. A critic is one who knows the way but cannot drive, however, sometime the drive needs a guide. Critics can help artists improve their work – by providing them with views and insights from different angles and comparisons with other artists. Besides, critics also help ordinary people to better understand and appreciate those masterpieces, since some works of art are quite abstract and require some aesthetic background. Last, with the advent of the 21 first century and the information exploration, we sometimes feel lost in the universe of art and therefore need someone to filter those bad artworks for us – critics serve this purpose well.
To sum up, one has to admit that critics can help artists to improve their works and guide the majority into the world of art. However, it is artists rather than critics that can provide society with things of lasting valueg. |
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