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哎呀我也弄不清这是同主题写作的第几期了
格子在寄托的第二次作业
这两个星期都只写issue了,argument 一点没碰:-(
各位使劲拍砖!
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.
Is it the artist, not the critic, who gives the society something of lasting value? To some extent, the answer to this question depends on the definition of lasting value. In my point of view, the phrase lasting value has two meanings: one, the enjoyment of beauty, and two, the speculation and enlightenment of humans’ lasting questions and problems. It is not difficult for us to find a great many of art works with lasting value which contain these two meanings. However, when it comes to who (the artist or the critic) gives such lasting value to the society, I think the speaker oversimplifies this issue.
There are two respects that determine whether art can realize its lasting value to the society: its intrinsic meaning and the effect of expression. The former was determined by the artists themselves while the latter was largely depends on the critics who can appreciate art better than most common people. Critics can help to promote the popularity of an artwork. Therefore they might be helpful to give the society something of lasting value of artworks. By reading their critiques, the common people (especially the laymen) can understand and interpret artworks more easily and profoundly. For instance, we acquire much enjoyment from looking at an impression artwork and reading a paragraph of critique about it. In fact, the impressionism was not as famous before the 70th last century as it is today and it was the critics (including those who praised it and those criticized it) who made it so popular today.
Giving the lasting value of art to the society requires not only the expression of the artists but also the accepting (accept的名词到底是什么啊?)of the common people. And how common people choose what novels, pictures or music to appreciate from such a large number of artworks? The critics who work as a filer enable them to find which artworks they are interest in and to what they should pay attention. Then they can appreciate them effectively and by praising or criticizing those artworks and understanding the spirit of them they virtually accept the artworks and make the lasting value realized in fact.
While the critics promote the popularity of some artworks, they do sometimes prevent some kind of art from fulfilling their value. By wring articles to quip some artworks or artists, they make some artists afraid of expressing what they really hope to. And because the glorifying of critics always meaning best-sellers and profits, some novelists might write novels only for the purpose of pleasing the critics, so do the painters, musicians, and so forth. But the artworks created to this end hardly generate anything related to lasting value.
Of course, the instructing effect is not always so bad. Take novels for example. Lasting means “to remain fresh or to continue in existence”. And the novels with lasting value are unexceptionally concerning the enduring human nature, which is thought and concerned by most common people. And critics are the ones that tell the artists what common people need to appreciate. Therefore the artists get to know what to be improved or overcome and thus make the art improve as a whole.
To sum up, I agree that the artists play an important role in giving the society something of lasing value. But at the same time, the significant influence that the critics put on art should not be overlooked. It is the cooperation between artists and critics that give the lasting value of art to the society. |
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