It’s beneficial, but clearly has limitations.
Art can never be based around the technical aspect. Even with just a small portion, when tried to precisely imitate something as it is, it’ll never be called a work of art.
Lee Hyun knows that the Royal road system was crappy.
‘I can’t stop them from randomly making wild assumptions. And since the ball will keep rolling and it’s useless for me to stop it, might as well not give a crap.’
Many students answered the question, but the professors buried all their opinion.
Finally, after the professor realized there was no one else to comment on the matter, he spoke.
“So let’s change the question. Leave Royal Road and its special circumstances behind; in reality, how do you assess a piece of art?”
Even before the students could come up with an answer, the professor continued.
“In reality, many people dream of stardom. But amongst the many, only a few can truly rises and live well through art. But even they don’t understand the meaning of art.”
Many dreamed of making a life through art. But unfortunately, without popular consensus from the public, not many people can achieve their goal.
“World-class artisans and their works are reputable, that meant many people know their names, and received lots of praises. They created works of art that are often overpriced. But a look at their works, even experts in the field sometimes said they don’t feel an ounce of inspiration. But for many who really truly love art can no long walk those roads due to personal reasons or placed their family before themselves.”
“…..”
“To make a piece of art isn’t difficult. A child first painting of his mother is art; or even paintings on a wall during prehistoric time, as a well wish from the hunter’s family to return home safely, is consider as one. The art’s value is only in the mind of the beholder. What art is, in addition to the beauty it depicts, are what people’s heart postulates what the drawing or the statue represents; and there are boundless of possibilities.”
The students quietly listened to the professor’s rant. They were in the middle of discussing the Royal Road’s system; and now random stories were flowing out that they could not keep up.
“Now lets go back to talk about Royal Road? Artists create their works and are subjected to the evaluation of Masterpiece, Classic, or Magnum with its own Artistic Value. But by this method that it poses a very difficult question regarding the piece upon its completion. In this example, the question is the mistake you made along the way when creating the piece. Or that is to say, you did not make a single mistake when working on the piece, and have made an identical representation; the system will still devalue the art.”
Lee Hyun nodded his head.
He sculpted numerous of statues in Royal Road; even when he hadn’t made a single mistake on a piece, that work still did not come out to be a Masterpiece. While some relatively well made pieces received more Artistic Value than the former, or some didn’t receive any at all.
“In our world, from ancient times, there were many virtuosos. So imagine being evaluated based on their standards? So by which means does the Royal Road system assess your skills by taking in the inputs of our eras past artists, is there a specific method or notation, or something else?”
The students regarded the matter in an unbiased manner. Taking in all the expressions from all the works existed and set it on a standard. However, the professor denied their assumption.
“If you are not to create anything new but constantly acknowledging and compared to the past’s expressions, essentially you’re standing still. Similarly, others are forced to do the same and cannot overcome it. To be able to witness and create works comparable to past virtuosos, but cannot overcome them to achieve true greatness; is frustrating.”
Silent swept the students.
Listening to the professor, it was too complicated.
Artists’ works should be evaluated in a fair manner. The fact is the problem is difficult to resolve.
“Many experts praised works? The works will be judged subjectively, depending on the differences between the masses or within a niche of people. Many works of art faces rejection due to the point of view from the mainstream.”
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