艺术类

作用和目的

According to what Freud has said art, in essence, is a kind of release (discharge) of individual lust, converting the human libido into plentiful creativity. It is through the work of art that artists express their passions, emotions, and desires. From this we can see, art is therefore, first and foremost, concerning with the inner world rather than with the outside one as a whole.

Pleasure; beauty(music, painting,-color, form, sound, melody)(娱乐)

present us with insight into what is eternal and universal. Behind the profound work of art is a set of principles of humanity that always prevail.(理解人性)

Renaissance painting of a Madonna and Angels, for many viewers, is somehow a revelation of transcendent spirituality;

a Beethoven symphony is the last word on human endurance.

Some narrative arts (novel, film) instruct us to some extent. This works with moral reflect the human character.(反映人性)

Shakespeare’s Macbeth, for instance, teaches us that inordinate ambition is pernicious.

This function of the arts can be denoted as "expressionism" -- the artist’s use of a medium to express unique passion and insight.(作为表达方式)

The pianist Franz Liszt, for instance, in the 1830s and 40s created a public personality as the great piano virtuoso of the era

19th century, art at the service of leaders—the Church, the government, and the aristocracy.(艺术为政府服务)

The expression of private feelings and the criticism of society