Issue190 【0706G－LOVEAW小组大贴】第十四次作业 by iq28

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TOPIC: ISSUE190 - "As long as people in a society are hungry or out of work or lack the basic skills needed to survive, the use of public resources to support the arts is inappropriate-and, perhaps, even cruel-when one considers all the potential uses of such money."
WORDS: 587          TIME: 0:44:53          DATE: 2007-3-1

Material treasures and spiritual treasures are the left and right legs of human beings. Without each one of them the giant cannot even move a pace. Therefore it may be rational and wise to suggest that the arts should be inferior to survival of the public when the lives cannot be permitted. However, such recommendation is not always the case. Whether it is appropriate to support arts with the public resources should address to a case-by-case discussion.

Generally speaking, people should firstly survive before their lives thrives, which means basic living standard ought to gain higher status than emotional events do if the basic demands of the society cannot be offered. In the era that Louis XVI was in charge of the France, he spent tremendous expenditure to construct his palace endowed the brilliant artists regardless the destitute peasants without lands and workers in slums. Although Louis XVI is considered as an excellent artist, he thoroughly failed to act well as a king of a nation. Growing anger of the citizens of France who could no longer tolerant such living problems finally overthrew Louis 16 and then sentenced him to death. This is only the tragedy for Louis XVI, but for the whole nation of France, for such imbalance support towards arts lasted for hundreds of years in France. Accumulative ignorance of the development of the material lives shackled the pace of France, compared with the Great Britain. Examples as mentioned above can easily be taken, thus it may not be strange for public to think that arts are always the maid of materials is always the truth.

However, oftentimes art play much more vital role than materials in the resurrect process of one nation. Although resources are seriously limited, supplement such as money or food or wearing continuously were distributed to the artists when one prosperous nation was suffering from invasions or other turmoil. Tianhua Chen wrote myriad articles to arouse the national spirit of China in the 1910s, when Chinese nearly became the colonies of western countries. Under such conditions what the hungry but blind people really needed is not bread but inspiration, which can only be provided by artists rather than materials. Artists can reunite the separated nation and help the people to overcome difficulties. Artists can lead the frustrated and depressed people out of the temporary labyrinth to a bright future. Considering these factors, investments on arts are wise or even, indispensable.

Also, arts can leave later generations lasting values compared with the material ones. Confronted with the present material shortage, brilliant race will not place all its resources on the developments of improving the material living standard. The supply to the artists are always rewarded, for the artists may create an avalanche of masterpieces, which can be forever enjoyment of a nation, both for the present people and the later generations. Sonatas composed by Beethoven cannot be completed without the endowment from some enlightened nobles in that tumultuous period of time; It is not hard to imagine that if Van Gogh was supported with funding, how many more precious paintings can he create. Compared with the living problems, arts still may be more significant when we consider the dilemma from the angle of the whole human history. Therefore, it may be short-sighted if a nation only focuses on the temporary difficulties in the living while thoroughly neglect the arts.

In summary, the author's recommendation is unreasonable. A wiser plan should be that the society ought to spare no effort to support arts.