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.
Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder, some may find a complex mathematical theorem to be beautiful while some may find a poem beautiful. What people find beautiful or artistic depends mainly on their perception, experiences, exposures and liking. In order to understand what is meant by great art we need to clarify what is art. Art cannot be confined to a definition, some might construe music to be arts others might refer to poetry as art. But one thing is common about art among these examples art refers to the ability to express oneself, and the true test of the greatness of art lies not in the understanding of the art by the masses, but its contribution to the artistic world, how it shaped the thinking of artists or the perception of art itself.
To elaborate on this, lets consider the example of Arrows impossibility theorem, one of the primary theorems of social choice, which depicted the conditions under which it is impossible to reach a concensus. It is widely celebrated as a piece of art for its simplistic idea and a beautiful proof, by social choice theorist. However, if presented to the masses, they would fail to recognise the beauty of the said work. In other words, masses may not always have the relevant knowledge or understanding of a field, in order to assess whether the work is great or not. In order to assess the greatness of the piece of art one needs to understand its significance, which neccesitates prior knowledge. So judging every piece of art on the basis of the masses would be injustice to art itself.
Even for fields such as music, painting, which common people have exposure to its not necessarily the understandinng of a piece of art that makes it great it could be the mystery behind the said piece of art to. For example the famous painting of Monalisa, is shrouded in mystery, thus making it interesting and hence exalting it to a status of greatness.
While some people might argue that every great piece of art should be understood by the masses, such a statement restricts the very scope of art to something which the masses find interesting enough to have an opinion about. Masses may also find things they dont understand artistic based on its aesthetic appeal. Such a definition would primarily restrict the scope of art.
There are many things we dont understand, the biggest example being life.Just because we dont understand something doesnt mean we cant appreciate the beauty of it. Peoples appreciation for art does not necessarily depend on their understanding of it, and art should not be confined to what is understood by the masses. The greatness of art should be left to the test of time, if a piece of art is remembering way beyond its time, it can be construed as a great work of art.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, however, if, may, so, thus, while, for example, such as, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.5258426966 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.3162921348 62% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 31.0 33.0505617978 94% => OK
Preposition: 77.0 58.6224719101 131% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2281.0 2235.4752809 102% => OK
No of words: 484.0 442.535393258 109% => OK
Chars per words: 4.71280991736 5.05705443957 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.69041575982 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75661881759 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 215.0 215.323595506 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.444214876033 0.4932671777 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 709.2 704.065955056 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.377005725 60.3974514979 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.052631579 118.986275619 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.4736842105 23.4991977007 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.68421052632 5.21951772744 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 7.80617977528 102% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => 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: 0.24489281669 0.243740707755 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0870205136635 0.0831039109588 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0628820438629 0.0758088955206 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.156598270163 0.150359130593 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0339043929729 0.0667264976115 51% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 14.1392134831 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 48.8420337079 112% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.33 12.1639044944 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.17 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 100.480337079 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.