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Issue 144
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.
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When ever an art work appears in the world, tens of folds of critics rise ahead, using their reading glass, search bit by bit, for any interstice where they can fit their comments in. What role do they play in evaluating an art work? Are they the voice of the artists, or the eyes of the audience, or are they just who can blame everyone, while everyone tends to blame on?
A critic, defined as a person who evaluates works of art, rises from the masses who are engaged in the art, and intends to speak for the opinions both of his own and of the others. When an art work comes into popularity, the critic is abrading his hands, preparing to say something. He is the one who has the talents, the proper taste, and the eagerness to reveal the value of the art, and to report his achievement to the society. After all, when a work comes into being, the larger part of the populace are only audience who just appreciate the work without enough professional theory and knowledge, and the critic act as the first examine post to sift the masses of works. What is labeled of little value and sense by the critic is, in most cases, rejected by the society; on the reverse side, what appears to attract the attention of those so-called experts, is usually introduced as sensation to the world.
What's more, as someone claims that, whenever an art work is done, the artist from which it was born, has equal right to explain for his work, for appreciating the art is purely subjective. The background of creating the work, or the artist's persistent manner of creation, though they are important for better understanding, actually have little to do with the enhancement or the depreciation of the value of the work. What acts between the artist and his readers, is the critic who tries to interpret the inner meaning of the work. Ever since the famous Mona Lisa was hung on the wall of the Museum De Louver, controversial voices have been ceaseless, about the mysterious meaning of the charming smile and the shallow sorrow on her face, for everyone feels the delicacy emotions in their heart which is shapeless to catch, and they just turn to the critic to say for them, believing that what the critic says just touches the point.
However, everything is not satisfactory, and in many cases the critics have traversed over the boundaries of their assigned task, by misguiding the masses, into what they are imposed to believe. Still, as the appreciation of the art is subjective in some sense, it falls on individual's will to love a work or not. After all, the opinion and comment rendered by the critic, in some conditions, is not that objective, and is suspected to influence his audience by his biased ideas or prejudice. Sometimes not all critics are competent to acquire new ideas, notions and methods for the creation. Vincent van Gogh earned no fame and money in his years, but after his death, at the first time, sold out one of his paintings, though he is regarded as the most talented painter of the 19th century and one of the founders of the impressionism. Critics sometimes hinder the pace of art and ignores the novelties as of no value.
Sometimes the critic even cooperate with other forces like the artist, or the creator of the work, or someone else who wants to lend negative comments on the work, the government, for example, thus undermines his position as the representative of the audience and harm his authority in the process of fairly evaluating the work. When the ld Chinese novel, the Red Mansion, began to appealed to the interest of the literates of the upper class and was popular among the people, the critics, assisted by the government of Qing Dynasty, marked it as violation to the race and just aiming at overthrowing the governance. As a result, the book was inhibited and who ever kept or red it would be sentenced to death, and the author of the book died in poverty, never dreaming of the reputation his work have won during the past centuries.
Whenever an art work appears in the world, tens of folds of critics rise ahead, leaving their comments, critics, and praise upon the work as well the artist. However, as time goes by, most of the critics, along with their voices, die in the wind, leaving the artists still being talked and respected, and their works, never less mysterious, immortal, as a western philosopher says," Even coming to the end of the world, the Sistine Madonna will be graceful, no less than in the past thousands of years." |
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