Excerpt “On Nonconformity” from Shape of Content by Ben Shahn

Non harmony is the basic pre-condition of art, as it is the pre-condition of good view and therefore of growth and greatness in a peopleconformity is derived from the wholly venal business of catering to a popular foodstuff (The Shape of Content, Ben Shahn). This piece of writing speaks of how the general public is in sleep together with works of art, yet at the same time loathes the artists that created them, merely for universe a little different than the norm. If art was about cookie-cutter throw, therefore according to the eading, we should all be living in a stern similar to Soviet Russia. Yes, it is extremely important to lift up and respect the Working Man, but it is wrong to tear apart art movements imputable to government, religion, sex, race, creed and so on. Art is something which comes from the soul and nonconformity helps to rip these few individualists a agency from the so-called commoners. Nonconformists explain reality in a way in which is hardly ever describe d properly. Truthfully.Why over so numerous years in history were nonconformists persecuted? Did the witch burning public depart out of actual threats like invasion from a foreign unsophisticated or the economy, or health care? Still the artist (nonconformist) pushes send on and creates despite the enterprise of trials and tribunals. A favored line was about a modern day politician that tried to have a design on a boat sail made illegal, yet it rancid out to be a legal design created and copyrighted for the Los Angeles boat Club.