Some people believe that government funding of the arts is necessary to ensure that the arts can flourish and be available to all people. Others believe that government funding of the arts threatens the integrity of the arts.
Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns with your own position and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should address both of the views presented.
Investing in arts at a national level would conceivably allow the artists more resource to create art, and allow the general public better access to opportunities to appreciate art. The worry that this funding will threaten the independence of art is one that's possible, but not one that's necessary.
Few artists lead an affluent life. For the vast majority of young artists, especially those from a region where there is not a vivacious art dealing market, funding is a constant headache. Many governments fund innovative public art projects that allow budding artists to showcase their work. For example, in the city of Brisbane, everyone from the community can apply to the city council to paint a traffic signal box. Not only has this government-funded art project become a terrific opportunity for street artists to exhibit their talents, it also alleviated the public despise towards this somewhat controversial artform of street art. Many artists who contributed to this project then went on to become world-renowned street artists, who receives commision for their work. And it all started with a tiny traffic signal box.
Moreover, the appreciation of art should not be the priviledge of few opulent members of the society who can afford expensive gallery memberships. A highlight of my European trip is the free or very affordable access to national art galleries and museums, where the most prestigious artwork by the like of Da Vinci or Monet are open to the public. The crowd of art students sketching in the V&A museum in London makes an absolutely beautiful sight. The study and admiration of art by the public almost add to the original value and meaning of the artwork. This widespread appreciation of art would not be achievable to the same extent without government-funded art galleries and museums.
One may argue that government-funded art projects can bias against artists who dissent the current situation. A modern artist almost has to be critical towards his or her contemporaries to create any artwork remotely interesting or meaningful. For example, if you take away the anger towards the communist regime in Ai Wei Wei's art, it becomes lifeless and pointless. A government sure should not have a say on what an artist produces, or what opinions they voice. However, this is not necessarily at odds with the presence of government funding in art. Being aware of this potential danger, we only need a carefully-regulated and relatively independent committee to assess the funding opportunities. Moreover, the presence of government funding does not eliminate artist's opportunities to get funded by international dealers, just like in the case of Ai Wei Wei.
As argued above, the government should provide funding to art projects and galleries to ensure the flourishing of an art scene
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'moreover', 'so', 'then', 'as to', 'for example']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.291164658635 0.240241500013 121% => OK
Verbs: 0.112449799197 0.157235817809 72% => OK
Adjectives: 0.102409638554 0.0880659088768 116% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0562248995984 0.0497285424764 113% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0240963855422 0.0444667217837 54% => OK
Prepositions: 0.100401606426 0.12292977631 82% => OK
Participles: 0.0120481927711 0.0406280797675 30% => Some participles wanted.
Conjunctions: 3.07188431446 2.79330140395 110% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0381526104418 0.030933414821 123% => OK
Particles: 0.00200803212851 0.0016655270985 121% => OK
Determiners: 0.116465863454 0.0997080785238 117% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0200803212851 0.0249443105267 81% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0180722891566 0.0148568991511 122% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2823.0 2732.02544248 103% => OK
No of words: 457.0 452.878318584 101% => OK
Chars per words: 6.1772428884 6.0361032391 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62358717085 4.58838876751 101% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.391684901532 0.366273622748 107% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.310722100656 0.280924506359 111% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.214442013129 0.200843997647 107% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.140043763676 0.132149295362 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.07188431446 2.79330140395 110% => OK
Unique words: 241.0 219.290929204 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.527352297593 0.48968727796 108% => OK
Word variations: 61.6341360955 55.4138127331 111% => OK
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6194690265 107% => OK
Sentence length: 20.7727272727 23.380412469 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.9572785478 59.4972553346 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.318181818 141.124799967 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.7727272727 23.380412469 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.454545454545 0.674092028746 67% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.21349557522 77% => OK
Readability: 51.8449373384 51.4728631049 101% => OK
Elegance: 2.09375 1.64882698954 127% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.475158582198 0.391690518653 121% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0776602479198 0.123202303941 63% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0725329028887 0.077325440228 94% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.512690853103 0.547984918172 94% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.196920455786 0.149214159877 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.17737406013 0.161403998019 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.102000902184 0.0892212321368 114% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.391414566107 0.385218514788 102% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0587232844557 0.0692045440612 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.32632307639 0.275328986314 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0582943583759 0.0653680567796 89% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.4325221239 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.30420353982 94% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88274336283 102% => OK
Positive topic words: 11.0 7.22455752212 152% => OK
Negative topic words: 5.0 3.66592920354 136% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.70907079646 74% => OK
Total topic words: 18.0 13.5995575221 132% => OK
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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