The Artist Verses Society It has always been said that an artist of any type is always against something. In the selection printed in the Baltimore Sun newspaper in 1924, H.L. Mencken states this very same idea. "It is almost as safe to assume that an artist of any dignity is against his country, i.e., against the environment in which God hath placed him, as it is to assume that his country is against the artist." This is an idea that I agree with completely. In earlier times knowledge and enlightenment were looked upon as evil. Tools of the devil that only heretics possessed. People were uneducated and easy to handle. The possession of knowledge and enlightenment meant the loss of power and control to the government. One thing that all artist have in common is knowledge and enlightenment in their particular field. In the past many painters were seen as heretics. This cause....

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