issue144【07-10G 梦开始的地方】 第4次作文 by firedodo

firedodoUID: 2295743

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.
立场：艺术的作用来源于批评家和艺术家的相互影响
1 批评家可以为既有的材料带来新的意义来影响世界
2 有些人会认为人们完全可以依赖内在体验来感受艺术的魅力
3 但是，受众们非常重视批评家们的见解


Artists' creativities and ideas is indeed the essence of their work, yet it is misleading to deny the activities of critics. True, the polemic issue might be relevant to the definition of “the value of art”, however, as would be demonstrated, artists could rarely create values without critics, no matter what the definition should be.

If we should define it as the influence of social ethos, it requires great act of will to overlook critics’ contribution. In the study of classical arts, for example, the social impact of a work depends on how experts treat it. Since people cult classical documents of their cultures and try to find apocalypse from them, while the circumstance an era facing is typically different to others, critics, with their well trained competence of appraising and expressing, recomprehend spiritual legacy to inspire their own periods. Goethe, an ingenuous writer, is as well an eminent critic. His evaluations and explications of several tragedies in Classic provided the 18th century with the sense of liberty and humanitarianism, which Greece never knew. Documents rarely change with the lapse of time, yet Goethe’s comprehension of them is essentially in the term of the era nurturing the spirit of capitalism.

Yet some might argue that the essential value of art should be the personal aesthetic experiences, which exist in the beholders’ minds. Admittedly, a work of genius does not necessarily seek for public admiration or appreciation, nor should the popular view determine the aesthetic value of it. Whenever a symphony moves its audience, even if there is only one, it reaches its actualization of value. Music being the most abstract form of arts, situations could be even optimistic in the realm of literature, for authors could directly convey their ideas and emotion to their readers via language. The impacts of experts thus appear to be limited.

Nevertheless, the truth is that people trust authorities. Drove by the desire of seeking for a “correct” interpretation, beholders of a painting usually search the commentary of it to prove that his aesthetic experience would not contrast to famous critics. If he should have persisted his view, to deduce the importance of critic in swaying beholders is reasonable. However, empirically speaking, most, if not all, of us change our views if they are disparate to Harvard Arts Reviews. Besides, when we concern ourselves with abstract and incomprehensible modern arts, could major of us confidently announce that he really has any idea about their meanings? In such a circumstance, an ingenious review plays apparently a more important role than the ingenious work of art.

Such is the case that artist rarely manage to escape from the shadow of critics. Having created materials, they could merely watch critics to explicate them and thus mix efforts in providing the society with lasting value.

firedodoUID: 2295743

一个半月以前写的了，觉得再写一遍价值不是很大，所以就偷懒了

wenxi417UID: 2344317

Artists' creativities and ideas is(are) indeed the essence of their work, yet it is misleading to deny the activities of critics. True(Truely), the polemic issue might be relevant to the definition of “the value of art”, .however, as would be demonstrated, artists could rarely create value(s) without critics, no matter what the definition should(would) be.

If we should define it as the influence of social ethos, it requires great act of will(not proper) to overlook critics’ contribution. In the study of classical arts, for example, the social impact of a work depends on how experts treat it. Since people cult classical documents of their cultures and try to find apocalypse from them, while the circumstance an era facing is typically different to(from) others, critics, with their well trained competence of appraising and expressing, recomprehend spiritual legacy to inspire their own periods. Goethe, an ingenuous writer, is as well an eminent critic. His evaluations and explications of several tragedies in Classic provided the 18th century with the sense of liberty and humanitarianism, which Greece never knew. Documents rarely change with the lapse of time, yet Goethe’s comprehension of (on)them is essentially in the term of the era nurturing the spirit of capitalism.

Yet some might argue that the essential value of art should be the personal aesthetic experiences, which exist in the beholders’ minds. Admittedly, a work of genius does not necessarily seek for public admiration or appreciation, nor should the popular view determine the aesthetic value of it. Whenever a symphony moves its audience, even if there is only one, it reaches its actualization of value. Music being the most abstract form of arts(音乐到底好不好表现呢）, situations could be even optimistic in the realm of literature, for authors could directly convey their ideas and emotion to their readers via language. The impacts of experts thus appear to be limited（看不懂）.

Nevertheless, the truth is that people trust authorities. Drove（Driven) by the desire of seeking for a “correct” interpretation, beholders of a painting usually search the commentary of it to prove that his aesthetic experience would not contrast to famous critics. If he should have persisted his view, to deduce the importance of critic in swaying beholders is reasonable. However, empirically speaking, most, if not all, of us(will) change our views if they are disparate to Harvard Arts Reviews. Besides, when we concern ourselves with abstract and incomprehensible modern arts, could major(the majority) of us confidently announce that he really has any idea about their meanings? In such (a )circumstance, an ingenious review plays apparently a more important role than the ingenious work of art.

Such is the case that artist rarely manage to escape from the shadow of critics. Having created materials, they could merely watch critics to explicate them and thus mix efforts in providing the society with lasting value.

整体不错
第3段是有些人的看法 你没说同意不同意啊 还用了让步，看起来就像不同意似的。如果不同意就成了一边的观点了，只重批评家，与立场不符。

firedodoUID: 2295743

我们对第三段的理解好像有点距离，因为我的原意是用它来批驳那些认为只需要艺术家的观点的。

嗯，确实好像没有突出｀共同作用｀这个主题，谢谢斧正