Artists need a certain amount of freedom to develop their creativity. Some people think that artists should have total freedom to express any thoughts and ideas. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Art is a powerful form of communication and have has become (is) an indispensable part of human civilization. Many argue that artists‘
freedom
should be restricted require
freedom
to a certain extent to be creative whereas others believe that without complete
freedom
of expression an
artist
will not be able to express their his creativity fully (whereas demands that the ideas should be opposite.). In my opinion, while
freedom
of expression is important, art must be censored if it contains elements that hurt cultural and religious believes beliefs or instill social and political unrest.
(
Accept space
(
Though the introduction is well structured, it contains several grammatical and lexical resource mistakes. The opinion is clearly expressed.) Admittedly, an
artist
plays a crucial role in the development of our
society
by giving us enormous (enormous is used with a measurable noun. Enormous wealth. Not with ideas) novel (
new
Suggestion
n
) ideas, opinions and criticisms in the form of pictures, writing, music or films.
Society
can use art and take the values from it to develop a better
society
and helps to overcome cultural and linguistic boundaries (
This
sentence should offer an explanation
to
Suggestion
of
the previous idea.
For instance
: Artists use their imagination to write novels that later inspire movies, and some science fiction books and movies give creative ideas to scientists.).
Moreover
, artistic
freedom
helps to criticize new decisions and changes made by the government in a healthy way and can (Parallelism: criticize should be parallel to suggest.)
suggest
Suggestion
Suggest
improvements.
For instance
, eminent artists
such
as Leonardo Da Vinci and Pablo Picasso have made valuable contributions to the development of
world
Suggestion
the world
(HOW?
Ideally
Accept comma addition
Ideally, this
this
sentence should be an explanation of the
criticism
Suggestion
critical
point.).
On the other hand
, a total
freedom
without any restriction can adversely affect the
society
by hurting cultural and religious sentiments of people. To elaborate, there are many instances
were
In or at or to what place
where
painters have created God’s and deities in a way which hurt various religions.
(
Accept space
(
I’m sure you can elaborate
this
point with an example.) Another point to consider is that it unrestricted creative expression can even
creates
Suggestion
create
create social tension and political unrest. When an
artist
expresses his view in a way that that hurts a particular community or a political party, it can lead to communal riots and political instability.
For example
, recently in India when film Padmavat was released which is a story based on Rajput community in India, it instigated communal riots and violence.
(
Accept space
(
Please create correct sentence structure:
For instance
, recently a famous Indian director created a movie Padmavat, which allegedly contained some scenes objectionable
to
Suggestion
of
a specific community and
this
led to minor clashes in various parts of North India.) Following
it
of a thing, of it; possessive form of "it"
its
censorship board
banned it’s
Accept comma addition
banned, it’s
its release in certain part of the country to restore peace across the nation.
(
Accept space
(
Though both ideas are well explained, idea 1 could have been better expressed with an example.) To conclude, it is an undeniable fact that creative
artist
play
Suggestion
plays
a principal role in the development of the
society
and artistic
freedom
is the fundamental human right.
However
,
government
Suggestion
the government
should control arts that hurt religious and cultural sentiments of people in order to maintain peace and harmony among various sections of
society
.
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  • creativity
  • freedom of expression
  • innovative
  • ethical considerations
  • societal morals
  • unregulated
  • provoke thought
  • controversy
  • government regulation
  • censorship
  • diverse perspectives
  • artistic expression
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