issue218 please and thank you

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218"In order for any work of art—whether film, literature, sculpture, or a song—to have merit, it must be understandable to most people."


Is it a necessary character of art that to be understood by the majority of people? The speaker asserts that it is only through the understanding that the merits of art can be revealed. The assertion is basically correct especially considering the readers or the watchers are mainly the ordinary population, however, I find the speaker overlooks some aspects of arts' function which does not necessarily need this understanding.

The threshold problem needed to be solved is that, when comes to the understanding which might be used to justify the merits of the art works it is necessary to define what might be the understanding of a kind of art. Maybe there are no certain answers. Based on the myriad people's different characters, experience, habits, family types, culture features, education gained and so on people will inevitably provide various responds. Sometimes even the artists themselves can have fairly new viewpoints over the same works they produced years ago. Then it is so hard to give an accurate definition of the understanding, that perhaps there are no men who do not have any opinions about the art which can be suggested as understandings from another angle.

Another point which has conflicted with my intuition is the criterion for the merits. First, in my experience and observation I find many common people have appreciated the merits of films, prose, and other kinds of art forms, although they may have no training in the curriculum of art. For instance, a accounting who have only cooperated with numbers and know little about the melody, rhythmic, and other rules for music, can also have an pleasant experience after hearing a piece of classic music. And so does the way a farmer watches a film, and a archeologist who read a poetry portraying a beautiful scene of the wild of African. With these facts can you claim that these arts do not provide merits to the people who maybe have not a real understanding of the art. Second, we should discover through the numerous art works which are labeled as profound and great ones the function of them is not lying only in the field of people's appreciation but also can be the evidence of a period in history and the witness of a culture or a people. Take Renaissance for example, most of the works of that time can be viewed as a justification of the popular Christian.

Finally, however, the assertion made by the speaker is basically right, for the ultimate readers or watchers or even the listeners are mainly the ordinary people. And if a paint which can be understood by mere a few people, let alone whether the appreciations are in accord with the artist who make it, then how do the merits come to reality is a big question, and given that the art does carry some merits then how many it can produce for us considering the minority of people who can have the patience to access to the profound art. Then if the artist want have more people to listen, to read and to have a look at their works and thus have a better worldwide influence the understanding of the auditors and other appreciators have to be taken into account.

In sum, the speaker is fundamentally right claiming that a works of art need some access of human mind. Nevertheless, there are also some merits which necessarily need people's special knowledge such as the happiness of listening a good song by an ordinary people but not a composer or a singer and its representative of the past and the other world of people which may not be known by us without what the art.


Please tell what score I can get with this.          THANKS A LOT.

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第三段的一个论点是With these facts can you claim that these arts do not provide merits to the people who maybe have not a real understanding of the art.
第四段的论点Then if the artist want have more people to listen, to read and to have a look at their works and thus have a better worldwide influence the understanding of the auditors and other appreciators have to be taken into account
好像有些矛盾