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发表于 2008-7-23 02:23:20
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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: 490 TIME: 01:02:04 DATE: 2008-7-22 18:31:36
Admirable artistic masterpieces value lastingly and provide society a precious treasure spiritually. However, there were dozens of artists who were accepted by the society long after their death thanks to the critics who appreciated their arts and introduced to the public. Then who gives the society something of lasting value, the artist or the critic? I prefer the former, the artists, those who created the masterpiece. Critics are not an essential approach to realize the value of arts. Only those who create the fantastic works really understand the exact meaning and emotion contained in the works without misunderstanding. Interestingly, sometimes criticism is creative artistically and becomes arts itself.
Critic is not a necessary introducer to artistic masterpiece all the time. Their job is to sense and justice the artistic works and to provide the public their feelings and estimation. They are generally sensitive to art evaluations and familiar with art principles. Admittedly, they provide the public a convenient approach to understanding art works and contribute a lot for the popularization. However, they are not essential. I want to cite a Buddhism clarification to make a comparison. The art works is just like the moon and the critic is like a finger. You can see the moon with the help of finger pointing at it. However, finger is not the moon and also you don't have to point the moon to see it.
The artistic works can only be clarified by the creators without any misunderstanding. If continued with the comparison above, the artists are also the moon. The art is a reflection of the life and thoughts of artists and expression of their feelings and emotion. We can try to sense their feelings and emotion from their arts, but we can not feel exactly as they ever felt, because it is impossible to replace our experience with theirs. Such impossibility extinguishes all full understanding. As long as the artist passes away, nobody else can be able to clarify the artistic works extremely accurately and everything will leave to be secrets.
However, sometimes criticism itself is also rather artistic and recreates the arts. As I mentioned above, art is kind of expression of individual feeling and emotion while criticism itself is right kind of expression of the feeling and sentiments of the critics. Although the art can not be full understood without misapprehension, the understanding itself may be more attractive than the art. More occasionally, it led to modification and recreation brought the art better evaluation. The famous Chinese novel <Shui Hu> was ever criticized and modified by Jin Shengtan, a critic in Ming Dynasty. And the modified <Shui Hu> was praised even better than the original one.
In summary, I suggest that it is the artist that gives the society artistic works of lasting value but not the critic. Because as creative artists, they are the best clarifier to the art and the introduction from the critics is somewhat not essential.
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