TOEFL essay: What makes great art or literature?

[shan_06]

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What makes great art or literature? Why are the works of some artist and writers considered classics, and why do others disappear into obscurity? Provide examples of your own favorite works of art or literature, and describe what you think makes these works special or interesting.

First we should know what art and literature means, In the dictionary we can found the meaning of Art as The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colors, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty, specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium. And Literature is Imaginative or creative writing, especially of recognized artistic value: “Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity” As we can see that Art was made consciously and literature is just imaginative form from the writer. For me Art is the best, because it was made with awareness in human’s effort and it shows the artist emotion and personality, just like popular Mona Lisa painting, which belongs to high class painting not because of the artist Da Vinci was popular and but of course the mystery smile of Mona Lisa and people wondering what that smile for. There are lot of art made by famous and non famous artist who belongs to high class painting because of their wonder and the beauty of it. Most of us when we go to art gallery, we can see that some painting’s, are hard to understand, of what it means, because it was made by on His/Her own interpretation. One of my favorite art was the Last Supper of Jesus Christ painting made by Leonardo Da Vinci, not just because he is famous, but because I love to stare on it, although I only seen it on Picture, and we had that on our dinning room, and also he give his best effort on it to make it beautiful not for himself but for the people, and to remember Jesus, It is interesting because of the

[Alan]

Hi,

First we should know what art and literature means, In the dictionary we can FIND the meaning of Art as The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colors, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty, specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium. And Literature is Imaginative or creative writing, especially of recognized artistic value: “Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity” As we can see that Art was made consciously and literature is just AN imaginative form from the writer. For me Art is the best, because it was made with awareness OF HUMAN effort and it shows the artist emotion and personality, just like THE popular Mona Lisa painting, which belongs to high class painting not because of the artist Da Vinci was popular and but of course the MYSTERIOUS smile of Mona Lisa and people wondering what that smile IS for. There IS A lot of art made by famous and non famous artistS who belong to high class painting because of their wonder and the beauty of it. Most of us when we go to AN art gallery, we can see that some PAINTINGS are hard to understand, of what THEY MEAN because THEY WERE made by PERSONAL interpretationS. One of my favorite PAINTINGS IS the Last Supper of Jesus Christ by Leonardo Da Vinci, not just because he is famous, but because I love to stare AT it, although I HAVE only seen it IN A Picture we had In our DINING room, and also he MADE GREAT effortS to make it beautiful not for himself but for EVERYONE, and to remember Jesus, It is interesting because of the ......

Alan
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