In order for any work of art whether film literature sculpture or a song to have merit it must be understandable to most people

Art can be appreciated in multiple forms like novel, poem, song or film; each of which has a different way of being appreciated by people. Since, recognition for each form can be achieved through different means I do not think that for forms of art have to be understandable to most people to have merit.

Firstly, we have seen from recent events in the music industry show that it is not necessary for everything to be comprehensible in order to be praised. For example, the hit song Despacito and Opa Gangum Style become globally known despite them having no English and not being understood by majority of their viewers. Along with that BTS, a Korean boy band, has been gaining global fame even though most of their songs are not in English. Not only that BTS has been leading the global Billboards for most of their releases. This holds true only for the music industry as to appreciate music on does not fully rely on the lyrics, the rhythm, tune and beat also offer assistance in deciding whether a song is good or not. For art forms like movies and novels this does not hold true.

Movies are all about the story and their characters; if the story is not understood by the viewers then the art does not gain merit easily. For example, while recent events show that there is an increase in appreciation for K-drama and Korean movies, it is only because English subtitles are available for the viewers. Without that form of assistance no one would be able to understand the story and enjoy the art. However, this is not always true as even in movies can be gain merit based on their soundtracks, visuals or cinematography. if a movie has good cinematography or the visuals are beautiful then the viewers would not need to fully understand the story through narrative in order to appreciate the movie. Visuals would assist the viewers in partially understanding what is going on in the movie, and help viewers or critics show that the movie has merit. Of course art does not always need to be understandable for be appreciated.

If we think of the modern paintings seen in museums we notice how the regular viewer will not be able to understand them yet they also won't be able to take their eyes of the painting. Art that is ambiguous to viewers attracts them as it arouses curiousness. The viewer keeps looking at the painting to understand the painters emotions and the art which makes them appreciate how much time went into the art's development and complexity of the art form. For example, not everyone can appreciate the reasons for which Mona Lisa is a artistic treasure. However, everyone can appreciate the complexity the painting, the difficulty of creating the painting in the time period it was made and the efforts of the painter. Through those points majority of the viewers are able to reach a conclusion that the painting does have merit and must be appreciated.

It would be difficult to state that all art forms must be understood by majority of the viewers in order to have merit. As not all art forms require complete comprehension by the viewers; along with that, an ambiguous feeling toward art can lead to curiosity towards the art and assist viewers in deciding that the art has merit based its complexity alone.

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Average: 6.6 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 540, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: If
...soundtracks, visuals or cinematography. if a movie has good cinematography or the ...
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Line 7, column 404, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'arts'' or 'art's'?
Suggestion: arts'; art's
... appreciate how much time went into the arts development and complexity of the art f...
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Line 7, column 529, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...iate the reasons for which Mona Lisa is a artistic treasure. However, everyone ca...
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Line 7, column 729, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'points'' or 'point's'?
Suggestion: points'; point's
...e efforts of the painter. Through those points majority of the viewers are able to rea...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, however, if, look, so, then, while, as to, for example, of course

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 33.0 19.5258426966 169% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 33.0505617978 112% => OK
Preposition: 70.0 58.6224719101 119% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2683.0 2235.4752809 120% => OK
No of words: 569.0 442.535393258 129% => OK
Chars per words: 4.71528998243 5.05705443957 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.88402711743 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61680265618 2.79657885939 94% => OK
Unique words: 236.0 215.323595506 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.414762741652 0.4932671777 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 823.5 704.065955056 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59117977528 88% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.2005653934 60.3974514979 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.652173913 118.986275619 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.7391304348 23.4991977007 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.78260869565 5.21951772744 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 19.0 10.2758426966 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.343293655298 0.243740707755 141% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.111343803402 0.0831039109588 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.072695552268 0.0758088955206 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.214499067576 0.150359130593 143% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0530460387321 0.0667264976115 79% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 14.1392134831 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 64.04 48.8420337079 131% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.39 12.1639044944 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.63 8.38706741573 91% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 100.480337079 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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