Hi Keith...Two points. One, the communication either happens or doesn't happen in the first split second for the viewer. That's why art is so powerful, or can be. It gets in under all our defenses, logic, reason, dialog, intellectual bias, etc. It goes directly to the heart. Jurors take advantage of this fact when they screen initially hundreds of entries looking at each only a few seconds. May not be a 'life changer' but they can tell if it's good art or not. Two, the best art is more than communication, it is also collaboration between the artist and the viewer. The artist starts it off and the viewer finishes it in his mind and heart. In this completion he has made it his own. Of course he loves it then, he had a big part in making it! Because of this it is best to leave things unfinished, ill defined, ambiguous and with a minimum of detail. Bob