The true test of the greatness of a work of art is its ability to be understood by the masses.
A work of art being understood by the masses certainly is a huge factor in sustaining the career of an artist. Think of any piece of art, whether it be a painting, a song, or a movie. If the masses understand and appreciate the work, the more likely they are willing to pay for the art. Nonetheless, the ability for a work of art to be understood by the masses is not necessarily the true test of its greatness.
I currently live in New York City, a place with a myriad of incredible art museums, most notably The MET. Tourists from all over the world will stand in line for sometimes hours to pay an expensive entrance fee to explore the world class art in this museum. The exhibits feature works of art spanning several centuries and range from sculpture to paintings to modern art. Wealthy New Yorkers will also donate thousands of dollars to keep this museum in operation and continue to provide the public the opportunity to appreciate the greatness stored in this building. Very few people, if any, would question this greatness either. But what about the young artists throughout the city that have yet to be discovered? They may very well have crafted pieces that belong in The MET but have yet to be discovered or overlooked to date. Therefore, it appears that sometimes for your art to be considered great, the artist must develop his reputation and resume first. In other words, the public is more likely to perceive one's art to be great, if the artist is perceived to be great. Perception is reality.
A second case where the understanding of the masses is not a prerequisite for greatness is where the demand or interest for the art is limited by the market. An example of this case is country music. Travel to Nashville and you will see country artists such as Carrie Underwood, Blake Shelton, and Keith Urban displayed on billboards whereas in New York, they rarely even come to Madison Square Garden. New York is certainly a much more populated city than Nashville, so does that mean a Blake Shelton hit song is only great in Nashville. Likewise, is an opera song performed at Lincoln Center in New York only great there. The Blake Shelton song may very well be more skillfully produced with more creative lyrics and melodies than the opera song, but since country music is a niche market mainly limited to Nashville and the southern US, the opera song may end up being liked by a larger audience.
Great work is often successful at the box office, on the billboard charts, or stored in famous museums. But greatness is certainly not limited to that success.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 1016, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
..., the public is more likely to perceive ones art to be great, if the artist is perce...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, likewise, look, may, nonetheless, second, so, therefore, well, whereas, such as, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.3162921348 62% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 33.0505617978 64% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 58.6224719101 102% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 12.9106741573 46% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2128.0 2235.4752809 95% => OK
No of words: 456.0 442.535393258 103% => OK
Chars per words: 4.66666666667 5.05705443957 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62105577807 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55767573004 2.79657885939 91% => OK
Unique words: 236.0 215.323595506 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.517543859649 0.4932671777 105% => OK
syllable_count: 667.8 704.065955056 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 12.0 4.99550561798 240% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.5574306387 60.3974514979 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.7272727273 118.986275619 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.7272727273 23.4991977007 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.31818181818 5.21951772744 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.376844996435 0.243740707755 155% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.111503104015 0.0831039109588 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.140385963389 0.0758088955206 185% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.243271350955 0.150359130593 162% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.185956299187 0.0667264976115 279% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.9 14.1392134831 77% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.8420337079 122% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.81 12.1639044944 81% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.37 8.38706741573 100% => OK
difficult_words: 108.0 100.480337079 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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