What is a gift?

Logging on to Yahoo! mail, preparing to finish my Planning project. Briefly glancing over the news row, typing in the website address. Brushing off tiles such as "Homes Inspired by Nature" and "Hilary Duff's post-baby Body", wondering why the latter would be of any interest to anyone. Catching my eye on a black-and-white picture of an old woman. Thinking it's an appeal from a company to donate for the end of starvation or poverty. Reading the one-sentence description. Clicking on link. Dropping jaw.


"NVA6"

"After"

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"To an untrained eye, these pictures would look nothing more than standard photographs, but it's not all black and white - they are in fact hand drawn. These are the works of 47-year-old hyperrealist artist Paul Cadden, who, often just using a pencil, is able to recreate photos in amazing detail." -Yahoo! mail

I don't understand. I don't understand at all. Why are colour blobs hanging on the walls of New York art museums while this man isn't given the honour to an English Wikipedia page. Why.