“The principles of true art is not to portray but evoke.” – Jerzy Kosinki. Art is a form which could not be understood and still felt. Art is something abstract yet tangible. The prompt recommends that for any artistic piece would have merit only if the piece is comprehensible by a large group of people. In my opinion, I strongly disagree with this suggestion and argue that even an obscure piece of art can hold merit for three reasons.
To begin, it is possible that the particular piece of art is designed to be appreciated by particular clique. For instance, a revolutionary, first ever of this category film is made where the scientists explain how rockets are made. A common layperson might find it extremely boring to sit through the jargon filled film of four hours! But, a person who has similar interest for example a neophyte scientist might find it extremely fascinating and interesting. This shows that a piece of art not understandable by everyone still holds merit for the faction interested in them.
Furthermore, some art is not supposed to be understood, it should just evoke the relevant feelings. For example, a sad song – the gloomy tunes won’t appeal to everyone. The slow tunes might solace a sad person who might have been embittered. Whereas, a person who is jubilant might find the slow beats downright distasteful and even think what kind of repugnant music the composer has made. The above example illustrates that a piece of art (a sad song) did not need to be understood by everyone but the relevant person who is calmed down by the mollifying music.
Some might argue that merit is money. But, is it really all about money? Probably the artist feels relished by the completion of his art work instead of inciting praises from others. Instead negative or critical opinion might make him/her end up hating his own piece. Merit is a very subjective term which varies from person to person. Also, who judges if the piece of art has merit? Does popularity mean merit? I don’t think so. The artist can choose to cherish his art piece in the way he/she feels suitable.
In conclusion, it is the context that gives the artistic piece merit and not the widespread comprehensibility of the populace. It is imperative to view the piece from a particular angle if someone wants to identify the merit of an art and not everyone understands which angle to look from. In my opinion, every piece is unique and warrants merit.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 184, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Instead,
...nstead of inciting praises from others. Instead negative or critical opinion might make...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, if, look, really, so, still, whereas, for example, for instance, in conclusion, kind of, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 33.0505617978 88% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 58.6224719101 80% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 12.9106741573 31% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2052.0 2235.4752809 92% => OK
No of words: 425.0 442.535393258 96% => OK
Chars per words: 4.82823529412 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.54043259262 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73984213927 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 218.0 215.323595506 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.512941176471 0.4932671777 104% => OK
syllable_count: 646.2 704.065955056 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 10.0 4.99550561798 200% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 23.0359550562 69% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 49.1864133114 60.3974514979 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 78.9230769231 118.986275619 66% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.3461538462 23.4991977007 70% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.11538461538 5.21951772744 98% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.205464261426 0.243740707755 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0566759809002 0.0831039109588 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0424805152562 0.0758088955206 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.119129905153 0.150359130593 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0450632758525 0.0667264976115 68% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.5 14.1392134831 67% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 48.8420337079 130% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 12.1743820225 69% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.44 12.1639044944 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.37 8.38706741573 100% => OK
difficult_words: 106.0 100.480337079 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.2143820225 75% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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