Some people believe that government funding of the arts is necessary to ensure that the arts can flourish and be available to all people. Others believe that government funding of the arts threatens the integrity of the arts.
Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns with your own position and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should address both of the views presented.
Every artist has a story behind their success. The struggling and pained artists are among the most popular motifs in painters, musicians, and other performers. Although artists frequently live a difficult life, they allow their talent to propel their eminence, and government funding will only contribute negatively to their art.
We often hear the phrase "art imitates life," and artists who come from hardships create art that comes from a genuine place in their lives. Vincent van Gogh had nothing but his art for comfort and support, and the pain and desperation which he conveys through his paintings are what makes them invaluable today. According to his brother, van Gogh sustained himself with only bread, water, and coffee, saving the majority of his money for art supplies. Struggling with poverity, van Gogh had the incentive to keep creating art that would sell. With no materialistic concerns, he turned to nature and created masterpieces such as "Starry Night" and "Sunflowers." If government funding was available to artists, ingenius artists may lose their creativity and incentive to seek inspiration, despite obtaining a stable source of financial support. Art is often unique and intimate, and is a derivative of a personal journey. By funding the artists, they lose a large step in their experience, which affects the results of the arts produced.
Artists who create their successes independently are also likely to be more disinterested in government. Their art is a reflection of themselves, devoid of outside influences. Early communist Russia produced talented writers, but their books were often banned as a result of government intervention. "The Heart of a Dog" audaciously tackles the 'brainwashing' of the Soviet Union's citizens, but masked the issue as a work of fiction. The book was consequently banned from the nation. Of course, freedom of speech is prominent in most societies, but government funded art may reserve the right to impose restrictions on artists. Imagine receiving government funding, yet creating art which condemns the government -- such a case seems unlikely. Artist who are desperate might still opt to receive funding and compromise their art, but the integrity of their work is lost.
An advocate for government funding may argue that artists will be benefitted, and I agree that it is true only when funding is provided for the promotion of the art. Interference before and during the creation of an artpiece might lead to the artist's biasness, but allocating funding for the promotion of their completed artwork will assist them to disseminate art to the public. Viable promotions attract larger audiences, which earns more revenue for the artists to create more art, and the general public is also exposed to contemporary artwork that they might not have discovered otherwise.
Ultimately, government funding may seem like an appropriate solution for artists, but may consequently have a detrimental effect of their art. Removing government intervention allows artist to create pieces that are more reflective of their most authentic selves without restrictions imposed on them.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 49, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , &apos
... hear the phrase 'art imitates life,' and artists who come from hardships cr...
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Line 7, column 244, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'artists'' or 'artist's'?
Suggestion: artists'; artist's
...eation of an artpiece might lead to the artists biasness, but allocating funding for th...
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Line 7, column 494, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...the artists to create more art, and the general public is also exposed to contemporary artwork...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, if, may, so, still, then, of course, such as, as a result, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 25.0 14.8657303371 168% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 33.0505617978 115% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 58.6224719101 97% => OK
Nominalization: 23.0 12.9106741573 178% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2693.0 2235.4752809 120% => OK
No of words: 495.0 442.535393258 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.4404040404 5.05705443957 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.71684168287 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00361208904 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 268.0 215.323595506 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.541414141414 0.4932671777 110% => OK
syllable_count: 817.2 704.065955056 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 16.0 1.77640449438 901% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.1740105283 60.3974514979 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.086956522 118.986275619 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5217391304 23.4991977007 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.08695652174 5.21951772744 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.254920253711 0.243740707755 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0873996333253 0.0831039109588 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0602670658605 0.0758088955206 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.159619237519 0.150359130593 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0389987715099 0.0667264976115 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 14.1392134831 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 48.8420337079 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.27 12.1639044944 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.62 8.38706741573 115% => OK
difficult_words: 155.0 100.480337079 154% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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