The Artist Verses Society
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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 environ ....
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.... that these heretics were perhaps geniuses in disguise.
Devince arguably the most talented painter ever wrote backwards so that people wouldn't know what he was writing. He would rather have been seen as incompetent than to let people really know what he was thinking. If people had known what he was really writing he would have been branded a heretic and exiled from the painting world.
A second example and perhaps one of the best was also a painter, Vincent Van Gogh. Van Gogh also one of t ....
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