*IF you want to see highly-textural ???grit??? taken to a brilliant extreme in the Fine Arts, check out the paintings of Ivan Albright: <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2yBVlE4FlVA/TiZ8cCBF8mI/AAAAAAAACLA/UyTas_9_M8A/s1600/albright_12.jpg">http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2yBVlE4FlVA/TiZ8cCBF8mI/AAAAAAAACLA/UyTas_9_M8A/s1600/albright_12.jpg</a> (clearly a major influence on Joe Coleman???), <a href="http://jeninebressner.blogspot.com/2011/07/some-favorite-painters-printmakers-of.html">http://jeninebressner.blogspot.com/2011/07/some-favorite-painters-printmakers-of.html</a> (???This is a detail of an 8-foot-t