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本帖最后由 _xt 于 2009-2-14 22:38 编辑
人生第一篇issue,各位高手请尽量多批批啊!!~~感谢啦!!!我会认真虚心虔诚学习的!不嫌我菜鸟的话,可以互批啦~~我会努力的!
"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.
Art has a positive effect on both individuals and society not only because it enhances our life quality by adding something beautiful to the surroundings of us but also because it reflects and records the activities of human during a certain period.The greatest art works,which are usually considered valuable to the society, are created by ingenious artists who keep a keen eye on the beauty of nature and evaluated by professional critics who draw the interest and attention of public to those art works. While artists are creating a world of treasures that expresses the idea and emotion of human beings, the critics open a window for the public and then guide the outsiders to discover and understand the art.As a matter of fact,the artists alone can’t benefit the society.Just as what is wildly confessed that it is the prospector rather than the magma that finally brought the gold ore to mankind,critics played a crucial role in giving society the value lay in art works.
It has been recognized that human beings are in possession of the innate sensitivity to the aesthetics,though such sensitivity is fettered by a certain degree just based on the experience and knowledges in their own field.Lacking of professional skills,how many of us can accurately decern the difference between the smile of Mona Lisa’s and common women’s?How many of us can dedicately sense the despire and agony in Vicent Van Gogh?How many of us can effectively understand the cubism that Picasso expressed?At this moment,art critics emerge.Unlike the common people,or the laymans,critics are the persons who have received professional and systematic training in evaluating and giving comments on art works.The job of the critics is to build a bridge across over the gap between artists and audients,especially when the artists produce the art works purely in pursuit of their own intellectual interest with regardlessness that whether the spirit or emotion can get through or not.True,artists do creat the art works,but it is the critics that make the value contained in them avaliable and tangible to the public and then pass it to the society.
Another function of critics act is to be the champions in the art movement that may result in a wholly new art style.Photography,for instance,which was ignored and disdained by the mass and even other artists at its very advent,was gradually accepted and considered as a valid form of art which expresses idea and emotion with better utilization of light and shadow by the society due to chronic struggle led by the persistent critics.When the two ways of life,a famous photograph in the late 19 century,came into being,there was few people can sense its graceful poetic imagery at first.The critics,however,claimed a insightful prediction—it comes the era of photography—in face of the hostile public.Critics are usually a group of people who are initially concious of the subtle changes in art history and then bring its value to the society.
In addition,artists and critics supplement each other.The most celebrated French litterateurs Hugo and Balzac each were critics to the other more than best friends.While Hugo was clever at writing comedies,Balzac usually specialized in recording the darkness and tragedy of the society.As they were quite acquaint with each other’s personality and works very well,they often gave constructive critique upon the other’s writings in own point of view;the critique,or advice,taken into heart,led to the roaring success of the writings.As a result,they both became the most brilliant stars in the long historic river of French even the world’s literature.Although critiques from critics may sometimes be objective or lack of professional skills,it should be confessed that most of the critiques are pertinent and relevant advices that will greatly help the artists to improve theirselve as well as their work.And in that way,critics have directly or indirectly guided or influenced the direction of the social cultural development that is sterming from the values in art works in a sense.What’s more,as Shakespear paraphrased:”There is one thousand Hamlets in the eyes of one thousand people”,different critics from variety of cultural and knowledge background can draw different values delivered to the society from one piece of art work.It can be considered as another form of art creating merely by critics.
We were all asked in childhood to remember the author of the Little Women,the painter of the Sunflower,and the poet of the Divine Comedy,but we never know who helps us exhume the treasures in those art works.As artists and critics are both the indispensable and crucial factor in creat values in art,having been aware of the importance of the artists,we should not overlook the function exerted by the critics who finally uncover and convey the lasting value to our society to make a progress. |
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