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发表于 2008-2-23 19:41:26
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题目:
ISSUE 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.
According to the speaker's statement, it is the artist rather the critic that provides us enduring value. In my view this statement is too extreme, in three respects. First, it neglects the fact that the critic facilitates people to appreciate works of art through various perspectives. Secondly, it ignores the role the critic plays in establishing the criterion of works. And thirdly, it dose not cognize that comments can help inject fresh thoughts into art.
First, the artist gives us raw materials, while the critic offers us broad eyeshot to them. The works of art, created by the author with his own experiences, was endowed with the intention to express the artist's original ideas to the life. Founding on different personal value systems, culture backdrops and literacy levels, barrier may be set up when we take the works into account. Sometimes, we even don't know what to start with. This is especially true when a commonplace person steps into a abstract picture show. With the various perspectives provided by the critic, who is usually insightful, we may be led into deeper thought and wider imagination, one of the primary functions of art we appreciate and enjoy.
Moreover, the critic's comments usually represent the public voice, by which the criterion of works of art is established. It would be unbelievable if there is no such a standard to distinguish the good and the evil, the right and the wrong, the true and the false and etc. Recall the movie Red Cherry, in which a poor girl desperately cauterized her back, with a scar both in spirit and corporeal left, for effacing the sophisticated body art compulsorily tattooed by a Nazi officer. Admittedly, nobody will tolerate this sort of atrocity in the name of art but condemn it.
With the prosperous view of criticism and approval, the concomitant collision is inevitable. Meanwhile, fresh thought is injected. For instance, it was at first difficult for the public to accept Vincent Van Gogh's pictures for the extraordinary drawing technique and view angle and thus they were neglected. But later, comments fixed people's eyes back to his works. In controversy, the notion of Post-impression was come up with and many other schools, for example, Fauvism, started to absorb some conceptions of Post-impression into their works. Although merely no critics will be memorized by the history, they may influence the direction of art schools. In this sense, the impact is lasting.
For the reasons above, I believe that it's too early for the speaker to conclude such a statement before more work has been done.
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