The true test of the greatness of a work of art is its ability to be understood by the masses.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
The author's claim or conclusion is a derivative of black and white thinking . If the art is understood by the masses it is great, else it is not.We must consider the fact that supporting or debunking this claim relies heavily on how we define 'greatness of art'.
Do we define an art to be great by it's monetary value? Then indeed some of the modern art should be considered great. It is quite common news to see paintings of Modern Art being sold for millions of dollars ! Now, Modern Art is only savored by connosieurs of art. To the art layman it just appears to be some random strokes of the brush. Considering this definition of greatness proves the argument to be false.
On the other hand, let's say we define greatness as ubiquity among people . The coveted art - 'Mona Lisa' and it's creator 'Picasso' are common household names now. They have, are and would never be forgotten in the future. Can we say that the masses have 'understood' the painting? For most people it is nothing but a picture of woman. It would most probably have had a deeper meaning to it as the artist would have perceived it. Yet by our definition it could be considered a 'great piece of art'. This once again contradicts the argument.
Contrary to the examples so far, let's say I created a work of art - a painting perhaps. Would it be considered a great piece of art if my friends and family don't understand it? Probably not. So, yes the claim is justified in this case.
Should we not consider the unique style and flair of the artist? Not all works of art are to appeal to one sect of the audience. One may choose who his target audience is.
Ultimately ,it is evident that such claims may seem reasonable, but after some thought, we can see that it is a claim rife with many loopholes.
Looked at from different points of view, the argument fails to hold in every case.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, look, may, so, then, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 11.3162921348 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 35.0 33.0505617978 106% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 58.6224719101 70% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1519.0 2235.4752809 68% => OK
No of words: 339.0 442.535393258 77% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.4808259587 5.05705443957 89% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29091512845 4.55969084622 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.43904703649 2.79657885939 87% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 215.323595506 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.551622418879 0.4932671777 112% => OK
syllable_count: 470.7 704.065955056 67% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59117977528 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 23.0359550562 61% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 35.9426385215 60.3974514979 60% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 66.0434782609 118.986275619 56% => More chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 14.7391304348 23.4991977007 63% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.04347826087 5.21951772744 39% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 7.0 4.97078651685 141% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 7.0 7.80617977528 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 12.0 4.83258426966 248% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.207886782295 0.243740707755 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0597355712737 0.0831039109588 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0495231829318 0.0758088955206 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0945154607376 0.150359130593 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0588169833599 0.0667264976115 88% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 7.0 14.1392134831 50% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 74.19 48.8420337079 152% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 6.4 12.1743820225 53% => Flesch kincaid grade is low.
coleman_liau_index: 8.11 12.1639044944 67% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.41 8.38706741573 88% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 100.480337079 66% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 7.6 11.2143820225 68% => OK
text_standard: 7.0 11.7820224719 59% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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