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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.
1. 承认artist是艺术作品价值的源泉,
2. 但是也应该重视critic的作用
(1) 是critic发现了artist创造的价值,并介绍给公众
(2) 而且artist是否创造了ever lasting的价值还有待商榷
(3) 从某种意义上说,critic创造了更大的ever lasting social value
Is artist superior in giving societies lasting value? And can the function of critic be denied or neglected? Facing these questions, any extreme judge, without systematic analysis, would be improper. As far as I am concerned, critic is, even not more than, equally important as artist in providing society with ever lasting value.
Admittedly, main artistic value of the works is derived from the creativity of the preeminent artists. The artists put careful and cute eyes on their surroundings, and their insight and intelligent creativities are inspired by the most common details of daily life, consequently, in their works, the artists endow the common things with spirits, which, to large extent, embody the artistic value. For instance, Da Vinci, based on careful look and reasonable imagination, created the beautiful but mysterious smiles of Mona Lisa, and Andersen wrote numerous fairy tales by adding some fantastic elements into most common stories.
However, without the function of critic, the artistic value of the works of art would be diminished. Generally, the critic can be divided into two kinds: the first kind of people is made up of preeminent artists, who have gained authorization in their fields; and the other is those who are not artist, but have basic artistic knowledge, together with personal ideas on art works. And the both kinds of people have significant effect on artistic works. On one hand, as there are inevitable the gaps between general public and artists, without any forms of critique, common people would not have access to enjoy these works of art. In this circumstance, as outsiders and types of the public, the first kind of critics is able to build connection between them by explaining the details to the public. In other words, the first kind of critics makes works of art understandable. On the other hand, as the neophytes at art fields need guidance, they would get improved by the critiques of experienced artists. And gradually, the standard of evaluating artistic works comes into being. Thus, the function of the second kind is to modify the error made by fledging rookie, and more importantly, to summarize all different artistic skill into common knowledge.
What’s more, there still remain doubts whether artist does originate social value, let alone ever lasting social value, even acknowledging the artistic value artists create. Concessively speaking, the artists do want to express their ideas to effect the society in the works, but as art does evoke imagination, rather than offer direct and accurate expressions, their deep ideas are, unfortunately, neglected. Taking paintings for instance, dull hues often stand for social darkness, and people living in shadows always refer to the ordinary public who suffers from social defects, so it reveals that the society needs revolutions to change this social environment and to promote the development of history. But these cues would not inspire and evoke the people who have no professional knowledge. The valuable artistic works are just as gold deeply intered in the earth: it flares but no one could see.
To further extend the aspect above, it is critic that creates more significant ever lasting social value. As mentioned above, ideas in the artistic works are not able to affect people efficiently, in this circumstance; critiques about the works are the keys to solve the problem. Critics unfold the cues of the works into the most understandable words, and thus inform the public with ideas of the artists. Accordingly, the function of critics makes social revolution possible, which will have much influence on the history, and create ever lasting social value. In addition, alone with new advancement of art, critics are attributed to made modification of the standard to restrain and evaluate artistic works.
To sum up, artists only create artistic value; on the contrary, critics transfer their artistic and vague social value into ever lasting value.
结尾段由于实在不想写了,所以很不堪入目.
[ Last edited by forevera on 2005-8-14 at 15:39 ] |
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