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这里是我练习的Issue 55:
In order for any work of art—for example, a film, a novel, a poem, or a song—to have merit, it must be understandable to most people.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
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Art works are the embodiments of human’s aesthetic tastes, and through art works, people can see a spiritual world that brings many feelings. Some people say only those are works that can be understood by most people are good ones. However, I believe that the comprehensibility to certain art works is determined by several factors, such as language, cultural backgrounds and generation gaps. And sometimes, a good art word is deliberately opaque since they are targeted at certain groups of people rather than the common public.
Primarily, the art works, either in the form of film, novel, poem or song are strongly confined by factors in terms of appreciation. For example, songs are composed to express people’s inner feelings and emotion to the outside world. However, the song lyrics are written in certain languages. It is not uncommon to see that a Chinese song that moves so many people remains unpopular among American listeners, because the language barrier. No matter no beautiful and poetic the lyrics are, people who cannot speak Chinese will not be able to see its beauty. Other than languages, cultural differences hinder the appreciation of art works. Some comedies in English is hard to be understand by non-native speakers due to some puns and slangs in the conversations are not familiar with foreign audience. Also, the time gap weakens people’s comprehensibility to art works. Beijing opera was a heat in the late Qing Dynasty, either the young or the old enjoyed it and took it as a great way to entertain. However, as time passes by, less and less people can understand Beijing Opera, since the contents are out of the date. Despite all these facts, people cannot deny the greatness of these art forms. The the appreciator stands in the shoes of certain group of people and see from certain angle, they have many merits actually.
Second, some art works are targeted at some people, and most people lack the ability to understand them indeed. Modern art is one of these works. Modern art is famous for its abstract nature, and through those abstract lines, shapes, and lousy colors, the painters can convey transform their invisible feelings to the outside world into a tangible image. Some appearing messes perhaps speaks for the painters conflicting emotions inside; while the tiny elaborated storks express the sentiments that are hard to capture. Only people who are trained with a pair of professional eyes can appreciate these modern arts. Even though the explanations to these arts are not entirely exact, since they can be very personal feelings of painters themselves. Nevertheless, saying these difficult and abstract modern arts have no merit is unfair. To some extend, modern arts reflect notions that beyond the public understanding.
Admittedly, the art works that are understandable to most people tend to be more popular and have more merits. A potential reason is that they are open to different explanations by different people. For instance, there is a saying, there are a thousand Hamlet in a thousand readers’ mind. Some people see Hamlet as a coward, some see him as a martyr. The variant understanding adds to its merits since it gives readers enough space to resonance with Hamlet. Films, as a form of public art works, in most cases should be understandable to most people. The investment into films is not a small sum of money, in order to earn the investment back, these films need to be understandable. If a film is aloof and very few people get its deep meaning, the revenues would not be able to cover its cost. When films are understandable, critics, news papers and audience will find the merits in them, therefore making them merrier.
In conclusion, a good art work does not necessarily to be understood by most people; due to language, cultural and time reasons, they can remain opaque to the public, but it is still merry. However, when art works are understandable, the merits of them will double, even triple. In a word, the merit of art work should not be measure by the number of people who can understand it. (631words)
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