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我的issue144 我7.27考,时间还是砍不下去...
TOPIC: ISSUE144 - "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.
WORDS: 566 TIME: 1:17:46 DATE: 2006-7-12
The stream of history is lined with myriads of marvelous masterpieces which are esteemed as the accumulation of intelligence of the artists. They commit their life exploring in the realm of treasures of lasting value, which will hardly fade their color. At the same time, critics--who evaluate works of art--are highly deemed as guiders who lead our way into the treashold of art kingdom, thus having an upgrading effect on our pursuit of the value of art.
Thanks to the commitment of numerous artists, humans, with their innate curiosity, the desire to aproach appreciable beauty and the passion of knowing more about the world, are able to be accessible to brilliantly shining works that last abidingly. In fact, behind the profound works of art, there lies insight into what is eternal and universal. The Beethoven's symphony is a vivid representation of the hard muscle of human heart, with which one is capable of conquering the blunders in life and strive for one's value against the fate. It is the same with the painting of Madonna and Angels that is somehow, for lots of viewers, a revelation of transcendent spirituality. From this you can hardly fail to see that artists not only apply their original skills to displaying the high attainments in their specific field, but, what is more important, dispose what is worth our gorgerous respect and what otherwise deserves our scorn in humanity. Consequently, our way of looking into the world has changed, thus we perceive more, think deeper and further cherish a desirable soul which may lastingly benifit our civilization.
Yet, when the lasting value created by artists are in the limelight, we should not neglect the activating role of critics on our way moving up the artistic-perceiving ladder. Without critics, who have frequent access to various works of certain artist and possess a profound understanding of what is behind the exterior of the works, we are like kites that broke the tread blindly flying in the sky. For instance, surprisingly but definitely, a large amount of blue was used as the major color of for sunlight in Mnet's notable work"Impression: Sunrise", which was not ackownledged by the general until a mass of critics dug out the deep meaning behind it. As you can see, critics, like catalyst, help us see behind the veil of abstuse works; like filter, contribute to guiding us to what deserves our appreciation, thus helping to introduce us to the lasting value that artists create.
Admittedly, critics play, in some cases and to some extent, a vital part for us to assimilate the genuine connoted meaning, whereas, we cannot deny that sometimes critics have a degrading role for us to dig out the hiding value. To illustrate, Van Gogh expressed his very internal emotional response to the world. Unfortunately, lacking attention of critics, only one of his paintins sold out in his entire career. Due to the limited comprehension of critics towards the works of art, we might as well resort to critics' comment as a supplement of our perspective about the works, thus we are more likely to be exposed to the internal lasting value created by artists.
To sum up, artists, with their creative means of depicting the insightful perceptions about the world, are the real creators of the lasting value behind the works, while critics guide us to better understand the hiden value via their evaluation. |
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