I wrote:
>Great art must inspire.

Fabian Brau wrote:

> Hello,
>
> it seems that, like in painting, everyone see things differently: one
> will try to reproduce reality, one will make a king of Picasso (even if
> Picasso has also made some very realistic painting :)), and another will
> try to tell something with realistic object but which are in strange
> scenes as Magritte!

I did not include the one example that clarifies my position.

There was a winner in a recent IRTC called "Water Trick".  The artist had a
delightfully original and funny concept: that of tying a knot in water just
like one might with string!  To top it off, it had a high degree of
photorealism!  That is great art!

If there were an IRTC contest with the theme of "Kitchen Sinks", and someone
were to offer up something that looked exactly like that kitchen sink
photograph we saw on p.b.i. a few months ago,  that would be a really lousy
entry. I hope it would lose.

> This is a very good thing :)!
>
> Fabian.

The engineer next door to me teaches 3D computer art at a local art
college.  He said the most important thing is to make things that look
cool.  If you needed a photorealistic image of a sink, paraphrasing, take a
photograph.

A sunset for the purpose of a sunset is booooooooooooring.  A sunset with a
wooden Argo creeping off into it is cool...

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