Well, M, I was mostly agreeing with you, mate. ;-) Personally, I've always thought that "realism" is seriously overrated. There's a story, almost certainly apocryphal, but still good, about Picasso (who could, just for the record, draw very beautifully and very accurately). The story goes that someone objected to Picasso's cubist/surrealist stuff and complained that women don't really look like that, etc. Picasso said, "Really? What do they look like?" and the man pulled a photo out of his wallet and said, "There. Like that. That's my wife." To which Picasso replied, "Ah. I see. Then your wife is small, flat, two-dimensional, and fits in your wallet?" :-D bonni

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