ISSUE131 [5f 11-30]求拍，有拍必回

shuwenyingUID: 2233183

ISSUE131 -艺术类的文章写起来真没有感觉！

"The arts (painting, music, literature, etc.) reveal the otherwise hidden ideas and impulses of a society."

The arts please the ears, stop our eyes and feed our mind. Moreover, as is pointed out by the speaker, they serve as a reflection of the hidden ideas and impulses of a society. And I largely agree with the speaker.

Firstly, pieces of music are crystallized emotions and inspiration of the composers or singers, whose thoughts reflect their social background. Accomplished in various times and social situations, diverse styles of music inevitably touch the chord of the society. For instance, rock and roll, which were born and prospered in 1950s, are always equated with rebellion. The transformation in economy, society and politics of 1950s in the US witnessed a boom. In a era when the hope that the "American Dream" would come true finally fostered the native optimistic belief in bright future, how could a generation develop radiance of rebellion? Yet a feeling of insecurity did clue in the pink dyed hair of the Punks, the radiant lyric of rock songs and the decadent rhythm. Experiencing remarkable social changes in the 1950s, the youth expressed their affective desire of finding themselves in the new situation of postwar America, a deep-seated feeling of anxiety and loss, the choices for their daily problems at home with their parents or in schools with their peers. From the performance style of the rock singers to the elements of the rock and roll music, the delicate and abstract thoughts and impulses of the American youth in 1950s echoed in the hall. In a word, the music reveals the hidden ideas of a society in such way.

Secondly, the artists plaster paints together with their emotions and thoughts formed within their specific social background on the canvas. The artists, no matter how innovative as they are identified from their masterpieces, inevitably incubated their inspiration by their experience within a society. For instance, when we are walking in the Wheatfield of Van Gogh, a deluge of skinny and depression shed on us. In the boundless golden yellow wheat fields, a sense of loss and puniness swallows the observers. The messy and grieving "Wheatfield with crows" implied the despair, loneliness and hopelessness of Van Gogh in a long-depressed society with ignorance to genius while his paintings wakened the hibernating impulses to pursue freedom and passion in society. Furthermore, viewing from a wide span of time, the paintings generated in a free, prosperous society feature with lines, edges or forms of pleasing simplicity while works accomplished in a turbulent era experiencing wartime tend to be ornamented with dense coloration, sharp contrast and fragmented compositions. Possible is that the former style reflects the feeling of pleasure, light-heartedness and optimism within the society. By contrast, paintings serve as abstract evocation for peace during harsh time.

Finally, the styles of literature indicate the social background. Novels, fictions or essays offer full meals of mind seasoned by the writers’ insight into the concealing emotions and truths in the society. As the hidden feelings differ among various social backgrounds, literal works of similar subjects reveal tremendously diverse themes. Viewing the struggling and endeavoring of Scarlet, one could identify the burgeoning ideas of chasing liberty, equality, independence of women, and downfall of racism pre and post American Civil War, but the sense of arrogance, leisure and conceit of the South had gone with the wind. By contrast, with similar subject of wars, novels concerning on Vietnam War expressed eagerness for peace and confusion to the truth into freedom or human rights. In short, people of different times are able to learn the hidden theme of the societies.

In sum, society, as the incubator of arts, infuses its concealing thoughts or hidden feelings into works of arts. Artists paint, compose, sing, perform and write, so the underlying truths are exposed, conserved and immortal.

lestouUID: 2260126

写的很有深度啊，怎么会没感觉呢？感觉我倒是有点晕艺术
文章越来越流畅了啊，呵呵．８错

[ 本帖最后由 lestou 于 2007-12-2 20:32 编辑 ]

兰子UID: 2404184

写的真好,特别是凡高和郝思嘉德例子举的太好了

lestouUID: 2260126

文章我又看来一遍. 有一点觉得可能忽略了.OTHER WISE HIDDEN. 就是说ART是唯一REVEAL的途径,否则就HIDDEN WITHIN SOCIETY.

shuwenyingUID: 2233183

真是犀利的眼睛，其实我还真是一开始不太理解“otherwise hidden”的意思！原来是这个意思！
谢谢lestou ！