【辉太郎杀G大队】7/29 Issue144 by Apple

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OPIC: 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: 582
TIME: 01:15:00
DATE: 2009-7-29 下午 11:13:37

Is it the artist, rather than the critic, who provide long lasting valuable things to the society? The speaker claims so and this assertion is widely accepted by the common people. I concede that those masterpieces do have a long-reaching importance which largely affects our society. Otherwise, in my view, the value which the critic can bring us can not be underestimated.

I agree with the idea that artists and their works have profound impact towards the society, because those works reflect the reality of different time, amplify the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, and also enrich people's spiritual life. Many of them are still popular at present, even they were born hundreds of years ago. For instance, people still take delight in talking about those famous novels, like Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and Emma, writen by Jane Austen. Those masterpieces are valuable as they mirror the real daily life of England Country life in the 18th century, and they provide a vivid way for readers to understand and experience the life at that time. The Chinese paintings of Zhang daqian are famous among the art collectors as his paintings are always considered as the best continuity of Chinese culture. Many parents will bring their young children to his picture show, trying to make children know more about Chinese traditional art. Admitted, what the artists bring us is priceless and far-reaching.

However, we can not overlook the long time valuable effect the critic can bring the society. For one reason, as we all know that, the professional critics evaluate the art works, and they tell the great works out of the dregs, which can more or less encourage the development of the real art. The Razzie Awards is a good example. The Awards were created to counterpoint the Academy Awards by dishonoring the worst acting, directing, and films and so on each year. And the awards were voted by the critics. They just like an alarm to the prize-winners and stimulate them to make better movies, which also help the common people able to access to better film works.

Another reason which makes me believe that critics also provide long-lasting merit towards the society is that, critic is the bridge between the common people and the artist. Critics analyze the art works, evaluate their worthiness and convoy their insightful ideas to common people by simple and explicit words. Those critical reviews largely convenient the common people and make them better understand the masterpieces and why they are valuable. And the reviews also facilitate the kind of people who are unable to see the art works by themselves. We can always find many famous columns of certain critics on Time, Newsweek, Vogue or Cosmopolitan, and those columns are welcomed by readers as they can find the latest fashions, the recent popular arts, even a new interpretation of a historical sculpture in the fastest way. And it is common that people will visit the Internet Movie Data Base, trying to find the hottest criticism on their newly watched movies, especially the movies are obscure. In this way, the critics benefit the common people to access and catch on to art.

To sum up, the speaker’s claim neglect the far-reaching value of critics. If we consider art as a treasury, the critics are the key to it. Critics drive artists and art to move forward, and also enable people to better appreciate art and deeply understand their lasting values.

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Is it the artist, rather than the critic, who provide long lasting valuable things to the society? The speaker claims so and this assertion is widely accepted by the common people. I concede that those masterpieces do have a long-reaching importance which largely affects our society. Otherwise, in my view, the value which the critic can bring us can not be underestimated.

I agree with the idea that artists and their works have profound impact towards the society, because those works reflect the reality of different time, amplify the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, and also enrich people's spiritual life. Many of them are still popular at present, even they were born hundreds of years ago. For instance, people still take delight in talking about those famous novels, like Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and Emma, written by Jane Austen. Those masterpieces are valuable as they mirror the real daily life of England Country life in the 18th century, and they provide a vivid way for readers to understand and experience the life at that time. The Chinese paintings of Zhang Daqian are famous among the art collectors as his paintings are always considered as the best continuity of Chinese culture. Many parents will bring their young children to his picture show, trying to make children know more about Chinese traditional art. Admittedly, what the artists bring us is priceless and far-reaching.

However, we can not overlook the long time valuable effect the critic can bring the society. For one reason, as we all know that, the professional critics evaluate the art works, and
they tell the great works out of the dregs, which can more or less encourage the development of the real art. The Razzie Awards is a good example. The Awards were created to counterpoint the Academy Awards by dishonoring the worst acting, directing, and films and so on each year. And the awards were voted by the critics. They just like an alarm to the prize-winners and stimulate them to make better movies, which also help the common people able to access to better film works.

Another reason which makes me believe that critics also provide long-lasting merit towards the society is that, critic is the bridge between the common people and the artist. Critics analyze the art works, evaluate their worthiness and convoy their insightful ideas to common people by simple and explicit words. Those critical reviews largely convenient the common people and make them better understand the masterpieces and why they are valuable. And the reviews also facilitate the kind of people who are unable to see the art works by themselves. We can always find many famous columns of certain critics on Time, Newsweek, Vogue or Cosmopolitan, and those columns are welcomed by readers as they can find the latest fashions, the recent popular arts, even a new interpretation of a historical sculpture in the fastest way. And it is common that people will visit the Internet Movie Data Base, trying to find the hottest criticism on their newly watched movies, especially the movies are obscure. In this way, the critics benefit the common people to access and catch on to art.

To sum up, the speaker’s claim neglect the far-reaching value of critics. If we consider art as a treasury, the critics are the key to it. Critics drive artists and art to move forward, and also enable people to better appreciate art and deeply understand their lasting values. 总结不错

评语：队长的水平越来越高了，这次作业的逻辑非常好，还有好多的例证。。。语言都超出我的能力范围，只能狂点好句子。。。。继续加油。。

都快要考了，得向队长学习。。。

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队长，为什么你不怕考试的时候，这些人的名字，事例写不出来呢。。。。这个担心造成了我的懒惰与借口，每天近8个小时在准备GRE作文，可是素材库远不及你们，写的例子都是自己的，见到名人就让路。。。有时会造成说服力不足的情况。。。。换做是你，你会怎么做呢

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我跟我的一个初高中同学聊过之后就开窍了，他说写一些自己熟的人，例子越熟越好。
也不是要抄别人作文或者范文里面的，而是自己的知识库里面你比较了解的。
其实Issue就是言之成理，而且语言实在就好，没有什么必要非要举特牛的例子或者特深奥的例子。
也可以举自己的例子或者自己身边的例子，但是要显得比较客观的例子。

然后找例子的话，你自己在列提纲的时候就先想想你知道的能信手拈来的例子有哪些，中国有哪些例子可以搬上来用。我说要你熟悉的例子，而不是其他人或者范文上的例子，因为有的例子你自己从网上找出来，但是不知道怎么用或者怎么用到你自己的文章中去，这样你在考场上写作文的时候就会慌，或者变成为了用别人的例子而写例子，可能就让文章不流畅。

你要把那些例子变成你自己的，这样才能在考场上就算遇到没有写过的题目也可以过关。