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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, painting, etc.
Issue Answer:
The statement presented above consisted of two independ assertions. While the author concludes that artists created works of lasting value for the society, she denys the value of critics' work. Although I am entirely agree about the recognition of artists' work, the contribution of critics to our society should not be overlooked, to my point view.
There was a debate over whether artist provide works of fact value, like other specilists such as engineers, who build useful machines that function everyday to facilitate production procedure, continuously provide high-quality goods for human living. However, such a dispute was always ends with a conclusion that, although artwork would not directly enhance our domestic production, it would directly give the auidence an impressive, cheerful enjoyment and thus promote people's psychology conditions, which would always be one of the ultima aim of mass production: to make better lives for human beings. Artwork provided by great artists would invoke certain emotions on viewer's mind, and thus provide a impressive, enjoyable experience which would hardly be substitude by any industrial products. The machines, tools and instruments could breakdown after a period of usage, but the aesthetic impact of great artworks would never fade.
The value of critic, on the other hand, lies in some other aspects which cannot be fully appreciated by only focus on artwork. First, critics introduce artworks, and gives fine analysis and interpretations of certain obscure pieces of work. Without reading the book remarks on newspaper, we cannot select which novel to read from those hills of books in bookstores. But more importantly, the mechanism of critize give chances to let every society members get involved in creating larger value of certain artwork. In every historical period, artist always constitude a small fraction of the whole society, but by discuss, evaluate and criticise professional artists' work, common person got the opptuinity to fulfill the realistic significance of famous paintings, musics or novels. In my country, there were certain controversial novels, once published, triggered a large dispute over adolescent crimination, and hence drived the legislation on this certain issue. New laws on youth criminate was certainly not pushed by that very author of the novel; indeedly, it was those critics, amateurish or professional, who promoted the better law to be done in a relatively short period.
The author's negative atitude towards critic, however, is understandable in a modern context. In such a world where mass media spreads out millions of articles critisizing various artworks, it's plausible that a large fraction of them does not stand for valuable issues. Nevertheless, this was another evidence that it is the critizing provide the platform for any citizens post their argument on certain work, and the problem with critizing is not with whether all of they are meanless, but with how we leverage advanced information techonolgy to distill the vaule out of those large amont of remark articles.
In sum, both artist and critic offered our society valuable works of lasting value. The artist provide outstanding artworks, while the critisizing reveals value to these pieces of work, while granted possibility for normal person to post their own ideas of art, usually related to their own social experience, and thus added practical meaning to those masterpieces. Only by these two paralleled aesthetic procedure -- creating and critisizing of artwork -- both taken place, would art fully develope its lasting value for human society.
[ 本帖最后由 GoldenStrike 于 2008-2-8 22:47 编辑 ] |
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