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John – <Brave guy, huh?> Braver than you could possibly imagine <g>, ask our dealer … ;-0 <Redon> Yes, in Chicago. There was a wonderful major exhibit here last year; I went twice, and wishes I could have gone back again. He started art "late", in hos 30's, but was immensely productive. The reason I thought of him in connection with VR was that he was considered sort of the artist of the subconcious .. the exhibit was "Odilon Redon, Prince of Dreams" – he was quite different than any of his contemporaries (1840-1916). Almost no color in his early work, it was all charcoal/pencil- very intense stuff; later he expanded (exploded!) into color. I did fork out for the gallery book for the exhibit – but all the images looked disappointingly flat – lost all the emotional wham. It has been my favorite exhibit since we've been here – and I did get to seee the big Monet exhibit a few years ago (I always liked Monet – but I sure was sick of haystacks by the end of that one!). Here's an incendiary comment for you re: Monet <BG> – "if he were alive today, he'd be out of business – same subject with 6 different lighting conditions can be done in Photoshop". I agree with you, though, Da Vinci would have pushed CG artistically and technically to the max …. but I'd still give the VR setup to Redon …. Let me what you think if you find Redon's work. Gayle