The true test of the greatness of a work of art is its ability to be understood by the masses.

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The true test of the greatness of a work of art is its ability to be understood by the masses.

In my opinion, an artwork is truly great only if at least after an explanation, people actually understand what the artist is trying to convey. When I was a child, I used to think 'art' only meant the kind of things taught in an Arts & Crafts class. I later discovered that the definition included music, dance, theatre and so on. A couple of years later, I discovered that subjects such as economics and political science were tagged arts subjects.

A work of art is the result of an artist or multiple artists expressing their thoughts and messages through a medium. In some paintings, every stroke shows emotion. It may not be understood by all but it can be discerned by experts and when explained to the masses, they get what the painting is trying to convey. It is pure silliness when you have a painting which looks like a couple of blotches of paint thrown by a 3 year old auctioning off for millions of dollars. These are the kind of paintings which people only pretend to understand.

Another example is music. We have all sorts of genres from rock and roll to blues. When people understand what the music is trying to convey, that is when it's achieved it's purpose.

Some may say that some people are not recondite enough to understand some pieces of art. Zoom to today where we now have performance art and modern art. People can put up the most random things for display and call it art. I doubt anyone in the audience with their 'oohs' and 'aahs' isn't just a sheep in the herd. It's past silliness now. Recently, in a famous modern art museum, someone left a pair of glasses on the floor. People were confused and thought it was part of the exhibit. They came up with their own interpretations for it. This is what that sort of thinking results in.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 225, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'an art' or simply 'Arts'?
Suggestion: an art; Arts
...only meant the kind of things taught in an Arts & Crafts class. I later discovered that...
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Line 3, column 544, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...hich people only pretend to understand. Another example is music. We have all so...
^^^^^^
Line 7, column 10, Rule ID: MASS_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error - use third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'saith', 'says'.
Suggestion: saith; says
... its achieved its purpose. Some may say that some people are not recondite enou...
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Line 7, column 280, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: isn't
...n the audience with their oohs and aahs isnt just a sheep in the herd. Its past sill...
^^^^

Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'but', 'if', 'look', 'may', 'so', 'at least', 'kind of', 'sort of', 'such as', 'in my opinion']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.249291784703 0.240241500013 104% => OK
Verbs: 0.161473087819 0.157235817809 103% => OK
Adjectives: 0.042492917847 0.0880659088768 48% => Some adjectives wanted.
Adverbs: 0.0509915014164 0.0497285424764 103% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0651558073654 0.0444667217837 147% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.118980169972 0.12292977631 97% => OK
Participles: 0.0339943342776 0.0406280797675 84% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.45817489409 2.79330140395 88% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0254957507082 0.030933414821 82% => OK
Particles: 0.0056657223796 0.0016655270985 340% => Less particles wanted.
Determiners: 0.107648725212 0.0997080785238 108% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0113314447592 0.0249443105267 45% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0339943342776 0.0148568991511 229% => Maybe 'Which' is overused. If other WH_determiners like 'Who, What, Whom, Whose...' are used too in sentences, then there are no issues.

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1779.0 2732.02544248 65% => OK
No of words: 321.0 452.878318584 71% => More words wanted.
Chars per words: 5.54205607477 6.0361032391 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23278547379 4.58838876751 92% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.311526479751 0.366273622748 85% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.196261682243 0.280924506359 70% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.133956386293 0.200843997647 67% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0747663551402 0.132149295362 57% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.45817489409 2.79330140395 88% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 219.290929204 84% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.576323987539 0.48968727796 118% => OK
Word variations: 63.2853803859 55.4138127331 114% => OK
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6194690265 102% => OK
Sentence length: 15.2857142857 23.380412469 65% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.4455298218 59.4972553346 61% => OK
Chars per sentence: 84.7142857143 141.124799967 60% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.2857142857 23.380412469 65% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.52380952381 0.674092028746 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.94800884956 81% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.21349557522 77% => OK
Readability: 34.91188251 51.4728631049 68% => OK
Elegance: 1.44897959184 1.64882698954 88% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.460590046689 0.391690518653 118% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.063361637385 0.123202303941 51% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0640284904416 0.077325440228 83% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.41213208679 0.547984918172 75% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.131139888258 0.149214159877 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.140705886254 0.161403998019 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0866008152873 0.0892212321368 97% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.261321258776 0.385218514788 68% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0414780547295 0.0692045440612 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.309786702038 0.275328986314 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.09835304416 0.0653680567796 150% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 10.4325221239 19% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.30420353982 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 15.0 4.88274336283 307% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 2.0 7.22455752212 28% => More positive topic words wanted.
Negative topic words: 1.0 3.66592920354 27% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 6.0 2.70907079646 221% => OK
Total topic words: 9.0 13.5995575221 66% => OK

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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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