Pears and Grapes on a Table

First of all, thank you for a great response to our survey. We've receiced more than 670 answers. Wow! Thank you :) Secondly, we have a special announcement. In order to set Art free from the simplistic dichotomy of black or white opinions from today, every Wednesday together with our an writing enthusiast from Portugal Artur Dionísio we will run a dialogue that will promise to add new perspectives to your spectrum. We will call it "Wednesday's Thought on Art". We hope you will enjoy it, today it is Artur's turn to delight you :) Through the years, "Art" definition was drawn by the same pieces that blurred its borders. These fragmented grapes, weren't an attempt by Gris to copy its pictorial realism, but an exercise in colour, perspective and emotion. A rather shocking one, if done in ancient Greece. Where, according to Aristotle, imitation was the key to art. Zeuxis and Parrhasius were ancient Greece's finest artists, and once set each other to a painting contest, to determine from which the best. Zeuxis decided to paint grapes, and so real they were that birds came to eat from them! He proudly faced Parrhasius, asking him to take away the curtains covering his painting. "You unveil it...", Parrhasius answered. Zeuxis turned pale when he discovered that the curtains were, in fact, the painting! "I have deceived the birds, but Parrhasius has deceived Zeuxis.", he cried, accepting the defeat. Until 2014 Wolfgang Beltracchi was absolutely happy for remaining unknown, then he was arrested. For forgery. He imitated famous artist's paintings with absolute precision! Now, he is free again, and exhibiting some of his works. Would Juan Gris be a better painter if he had done painted his grapes like Zeuxis? And if Beltracchi faked his grapes, would his imitation be as artistic as Parrhasius imitation of the curtains? Oscar Wilde once said that "Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life", what do you think?