LOL!! Er, well, actually, there are a few pieces galleries have bought up that I'd love to be able to comment upon (ever hear of the acquisition of "Polar Bear in the Snow," which is basically a white canvas with a black dot on it -- the bear's nose , for $1,000,000?). Stupidity abounds wherever one goes, really. But yes, point taken. Shades of the movie Demolition Man... "now all art galleries are Renderosity." eek! I think it's all fine if one doesn't take it too seriously, but honestly, I know it can sometimes be hard not to at times. I was never one to want to be part of a snobbish clique even back in high school, so it's certainly no time to desire it now, that's for sure -- and that's what is irritating to me, it's like too many adults seem to never have outgrown that high school attitude. And I don't mean just here, but many online places and IRL. And honestly, when I talk about art and artists, I'm talking more an attitude than even ability, because so much of that is relative anyway. When one is an artist, one creates are because s/he must, not because there is a group of annonymous 'artists' somewhere out there with the ability to give praise, or take it away.