His body can be 'regular'. The structure of his facial bones can be ordinary. He can wake up some morning and look slack and unfocused. Some people not knowing him might mistake him for a dullard.

But the soul that created these compositions and set the foundation for Western music? No matter how ordinary his bones, that face will be full of intense joy, profound sorrow and exhaltation many many times in its life. Why didn't the responsible people take the recreated structure of the face and put THAT expression on him?

I am aware of the reconstruction process. An attempt to create 'no expression' is a choice...to show him expressionless and without soul. And anyway, all attempts fail, because the final artist puts "something' there, in this case a default cultural icon.

Moreover, I state once again, this is being enshrined at a museum. People viewing will not 'get' that it is a lifeless, meaningless, arbitrary, void, soulless piece of a forensic experiment, even if it says that in big posters all around it, even if the painting artist signs an affidavit  that her interpretation of the expression is completely arbitrary with no basis. (she did a poor job of picking up anything from the former painting.) They will think that "This Is Bach", gee he is pretty ordinary and silly.

JonTheCelts obnoxious post is rejected on all counts, with emphasis.

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