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发表于 2009-6-15 01:43:31
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While artists create, critics evaluate. While artists express, critics interpret. Contribution of neither artists nor critics is indispensible, since they enhance our appreciation for and the value of beauty and esthetics of our society. However, as for the lasting value of society, time is the ultimate judge and contributor in my view.
Disputably, it is the artists that bring all the art works into existence. No art works automatically come into being by themselves without artists. Without composer, phonetic symbols would not turn into tunes; without painter, lines and colors would transform into a painting; without poet, letters would not array in the order of rhythms. Thus, with talent and skills, artists arrange all the fraction of their emotion and ideology into a piece of combination that can reflect social idea and humanity. Admittedly, what artists bring to the field of art and our whole society is priceless.这一段论证很清晰~
However, pricelessness doesn’t equate lasting value. It is time that does the vital job of eliciting the lasting value of a piece of art, rather than artists create it. During the development of human history, there is a prodigious number of art works flourishing out, and time is the best testing system to decide which piece holds the lasting value and which does not. In the testing out process, a myriad of art works have been deposited under the time sea and never been recognized or remembered, let alone bring lasting value to society. On the other hand, lasting value of master pieces has been tested and proved over and over throughout history: people keep flowing to Paris to cast a glance at the smile of Mona Lisa; Moonlight Sonata has inspired generations and been imitated or recomposed by countless admirers; the genius of Hamlet has revised into numerous versions of movies and plays. Artist create valuable art, time entitles it the lasting value.
Meanwhile, critics make their contribution with professional esthetics and systemic criteria. They help common people to understand and appreciate the internal meaning of art, and filter those good ones that truly deserve our time and investment. For instance, a good movie review is a very helpful guide when audiences spend time and dollars in a theater, and art critics' insightful opinion is an important reference on art collectors' investment choices. There is no doubt the role critics play is prominent, but where is the lasting value in those circumstances?(最后这个问句有点唐突,作者很明显是在反问,不过这一段也没有怎么提lasting value, 所以这么一问有点砸自己脚的感觉)
Also, as far as the lasting value of society is concerned, it is still time, and only time can examine and give a piece of criticism its lasting value. Lasting value of criticism lies in coaching numerous unborn generations how to appreciate art, assisting historians to study a specific period, pushing the world of art onto another level. And all of these need time to realize. When British critics first used the term “pop art”, who would predict the word “pop” has become such a buzzword half century later? Moreover, art can be very abstract and abstruse to grasp the real meaning within, despite all the professional knowledge a critics masters. With different angle, different culture background or different personal experience, critics can hardly agree with each other on a same piece of art for so many times, and that’s where contradiction and prejudice on a certain school or piece of art originate. Fortunately, time can wash them out and give back an art or artist a fair name. Taking Impressionism for instance, its works were dismissed and harshly criticized then, but now they are highly venerated. Thus, critics offer referable and valuable, and sometimes misleading criticism, but time elicits the lasting value out of it.
To sum up, few will dispute the indispensability of artists and critics, for they have significant impact on course of society progresses and history shaping. However, time is the real master of identifying and projecting the lasting value of art and criticism.
全文很流畅,思路也很清晰~
我只弱弱的提一点:作者把艺术家,评论家和时间完全看成三个不同的实体来看,然后说时间是检验艺术的持续价值的唯一标准,这话不假~ 但是时间的对艺术的评价显然包含那些评论家的努力,最终评价艺术的还是人,不是时间这个空壳。
作者没有能在这一点上将问题说清~
个人建议啦~ |
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