Jeremy M. Praay wrote:

> "Gilles Tran" <gitran_nospam_@wanadoo.fr> wrote in message
> news:412bc3b1@news.povray.org...
> <snip>
> 
>>good artists have something known as "style" :)
> 
> 
> Whew!  I should be safely anonymous, then...
> 
> But to be serious again, 

But there is truth to your joke.  The heavy stylists will act as 
lightning rods potentially.  And if they should want to remain anonymous 
they are faced with an obvious dilemma.  The even more obvious answer is 
that they don't seek anonymity, thus the heavy style.

As a postscript to all this, an anecdote:  when I was an undergraduate 
art student I was enrolled in a printmaking course.  Printmaking has 
something of a tradition of humanism and social criticism greater than 
that of painting but less than that of film I would say.  Anyway the 
instructor, who was Chinese and of WW II age, did prints about 
Hiroshima.  In this course he organized class critics in which he would 
put up peoples' work and discuss it in front of everyone.  One student, 
smitten suddenly with social consciousness, made a drawing which 
featured prominently in the composition, a young child with his stomach 
swollen from hunger.  The instructor when on and on, in great detail, 
about the techique the student had employed when modelling the "female 
breast".  You really had to be there.  Irony aside, my point is that 
often the viewer can't even figure out the subject let alone the artist 
and style.