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issue144 498words,60min
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.
提纲:艺术家的作用
b1有两种艺术,评论家的作用不用
b2大众艺术,评论家作用
b3深奥的艺术,评论家作用
The claim that artist, not the critic, gives society something of lasting value is not accurate. Artists' contribution of artwork can be easily recognized. They create the artwork. Without their dedication, there is no artwork, so there is nothing to be evaluated or to be admired. Thus the artists' function is prerequisite and essential.
However, the critics are also necessary to create lasting artwork. They serves to introduce the work, explain it, and praise or criticize it, whose function is not direct, but cannot be neglected. Given that the human's appreciating level is not constant, the artwork could be divided into two groups: those cannot be appreciated by most contemporary people and those can be appreciated by most people. Critics' function to those two groups of artwork can be elaborated by a case-by-case analysis.
As for those can be appreciated by most contemporary people, namely those can be easily accessible to most contemporary people and not very obscurity, such as most novel, films, music, and some paintings, it seems that ordinary people can evaluate the works by themselves. These artworks' value is primarily worked out by their own aesthetic level or more practically whether the artworks are close to taste of the masses. In Modern time, in one sense, a novel's sale reveals its value; a movie's box office success reflects its value; the sale of a music determines its value. Ostensibly, the process of creating and appreciating takes place between the artists and the masses: there is nothing left for critics. However, critics' function is indispensable in the course of appreciating beauty. Because ordinary people are less professional and their time spent on artwork is limited, they contact fewer artworks than those of the critics in a period of time. In fact, it is up to the critics to find out the potential valuable artworks waiting for appreciating for the masses. And their professional suggestion of the artworks will influence relatively non-professional ordinary people's estimate. Thus, in this sense, the critics determine which artworks people may appreciate and influence the course of appreciating.
When it comes to the artworks of profound meanings, namely those cannot be appreciated by contemporary people, like many impressionism works, whose value is beyond most people's appreciating ability, the function of critics is more important. Besides filtering and introducing, critics serve to criticize and explain. With professional acuity, the critics are more believable than ordinary people when recognizing the abstract, indigestible, but valuable artworks. These artworks that could be of paramount importance in future may not be taken care, or not be properly preserved by the contemporary people, unless critics recognize and advocate them. Then all the human being may lose a great amount of art treasures. Moreover, the critics can induce the masses to appreciate through explaining the profound meanings embodied in these artworks. Therefore they also boost the level of human being's aesthetics, which can also be regarded as part of lasting value.
In sum, on one hand, the function of artists, who create the artworks, is fundamental and essential. On the other hand, the function of critics, who recognize and evaluate the meaningful ones, is easily neglected but also indispensable.
[ Last edited by fxs_007 on 2005-8-7 at 13:22 ] |
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