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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 188147, member: 25&quot;]There is an interesting link to Vincent van Gogh here. Van Gogh believed a picture did not have to look exactly like the thing depicted, and this was of course first articulated by the now celebrated Mexican carpenter, Cana del Monte, who belived his furniture did not have to look exactly like furniture, but just his impression of the furniture. This approach was considered somewhat slapdash at the time and he only ever sold one piece of furniture, to his dentist, who promptly covered it with a large piece of cloth and the 18th C equivalent of old magazines.</p><p>His career came to an untimely end when he cut off one of his hands to give to his mistress, but bled out because he was unable to stop the bleeding with only one hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>He is remembered nowadays when people say about some piece of rubbish &quot;That is good enough for del Monte.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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