Thinking About Art - Epilogue

The other day, I was perusing the section of cartoons of El Pais, a Spanish newspaper, and I found two by cartoonist El Roto (nick for Andres Rabago) related to the 28th ARCO (International Contemporary Art Fair hold in Madrid). The cartoons are impacting and a great way to end this series of entries on Art, just because they express in a few words some of the things we've been discussing here. Visit the links to the images, you won't regret it.The translation of the texts are as follows:

1/ www.elpais.com/vineta/?d_date=20090213&autor=El%20Roto&anchor=elpporopivin&xref=20090213elpepivin_4&type=Tes&k=Roto
The painter is not important, my friend, the one really important is the one handling the markets

2/ www.elpais.com/vineta/?anchor=elpporopivin&d_date=20090214
During many years he hanged his paintings without any success. Only when he hanged himself as a proof of lucidity the market put its eyes on him...