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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Woody" data-source="post: 1509116" data-attributes="member: 2672">Ching is a fabulous draftsman but his work always looks a bit 'static' to me, much along the same lines as Brenders' stuff, Philistine that I am!Back to the issue at hand; An artist has the right to say whatever they want, in whatever way they choose, if it has been said a thousand times before by a thousand others or equally if it is new and challenging. If an artist's expression shocks, disgusts or even simply baffles, then that lies with the interpretation of the viewer, influenced as they are by the accepted norms of the society that they are part of at the time. Look at the Pre-Raphaelites, (see Ophelia on page 1), they shocked the Victorian public to the core but looked at now across the years it's difficult for us to understand why because we simply don't have the same value system as society did then.In the final analysis viewers of any art will make their own decisions as to what constitutes 'good' art or 'bad', what disgusts one will delight another, so it has always been and so it will always be. And thank (insert Deity or otherwise) for that!Mike</blockquote>