OK, being too dumb to discuss what Roland Pericles might call the "prose and cons" of this topic, I "hear buy" (as Roland would say) offer for readers' consideration this example of representationalist art, found in the world's largest non-military cemetery: <http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/Hh-friedhof-ohlsdorf-bombenopfer.jpg> Carlo Karges, among others, is buried there. If you don't know who Carlo Karges was, he's the author of a work that all of you know but may associate with someone else's name. -- Mike Hardy !!! A good illustrator is good, and a mediocre representational/realist artist is mediocre? Couldn't (ok, I could, but I didn't) resist it. Ellen ___ I have to agree with this one. -- Mike Hardy PS: Ellen are you writing something for publication? You've suggested on some occasions that you're guilty of having a life, so I hope that or something like that is why.