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India and Saudi Arabia
January 2012
ielts360toefl@hotmail.com
Why do you think artists like writers, musicians and painters still have
value in the society? Discuss.
The immense value of artists lies in keeping a true diary in another way of
the society by sending light into the darkness of human hearts. All great
masters--painters, musicians, writers--have a mission to record the inner
reactions of their emotions to the outside world they live in. What art offers
is spiritual space, a certain breathing room for the soul; without art, the
crudeness of modern reality would make the world almost unbearable.
Artists at heart do not represent the outward appearance but the inward
significance of things. Contemporary paintings, poems and musical pieces link
their value to the most accurate perception of what is really going on, and not
the official version or the popular impression in the society. Strangely enough,
some artists do not seem telling the truth, as if it were a lie that makes the
world realize the truth. In many cases, so powerful is the way art is presented
in sound, canvas and letters that people can nearly feel like artists knocking
at their souls. In this modern age, life may beat down and crush the human soul,
and it is exactly that kind of art which is capable of reminding that the soul
is still there. By telling the truth to human souls, artists in different
disciplines are able to transfer emotional value to the society and wait for an
answer.
Even in a world which is increasingly becoming materialistic, artists still
have a place. One of the crude aspects of the money-oriented society is that
some people seem beginning to learn the price of everything and the value of
nothing. Such ignorance is, of course, the enemy of arts in all forms as the
society is apparently not aware enough of the valuable contributions that
artists can make to the society. It is as easy to under-estimate the role that a
painter, a musician, or a writer plays in the society as to ignore the great
contributions made by living artists. So much so that the artistic truth told
about modern reality is often undervalued. After all, appealing to the soul, a
work of art is emotional and therefore spiritual and its real value defies any
artificial price tag.
To discuss the contributions of great artists is to emphasize their
spiritual value in the materialistic society and to look into the human soul.
Probably the value of all artists is to purify the inner emotions of many human
hearts bewildered by the outside world. It may be said that art is a way rather
than a thing, and the way of art is illuminating food of spiritual value for
hungry souls. (Jeenn Lee Hsieh 2420263544@qq.com ) |
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