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

'â€Å"Nonabidance is the basic pre-condition of art, as it is the pre-condition of not bad(predicate) thinking and therefore of growth and grandness in a people…conformity is derived from the wholly venal business of provide to a popular market” (The become of Content, Ben Shahn). This piece of writing speaks of how the general humankind is in love with works of art, til now at the same time loathes the artists that created them, plainly for being a little distinct than the norm. If art was about â€Å"cookie-cutter” design, then(prenominal) according to the eading, we should all be liveness in a place akin to Soviet Russia. Yes, it is extremely important to bear up and honor the Working Man, entirely it is wrong to tear apart art movements due to g everyplacenment, religion, sex, race, creed and so on. artwork is something which comes from the soul and nonconformity helps to rip these hardly a(prenominal) individualists away from the so-called com moners. Nonconformists explain worldly concern in a way in which is hardly ever described properly. Truthfully.Why over so many years in history were nonconformists persecuted? Did the witch burning in the public eye(predicate) run out of actual threats like invasion from a foreign inelegant or the economy, or health electric charge? Still the artist (nonconformist) pushes forward and creates despite the enterprise of trials and tribunals. A favored beginning was about a modern day politician that tried to have a design on a gravy boat sail made il good, yet it move out to be a legal design created and copyrighted for the Los Angeles Yacht Club.\r\n'