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Russian artists Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid have produced paintings for several countries based upon what marketing surveys reveal as the most and least desireable qualities for a work of visual art. The surveys, available on the website for your consideration, asked a large variety of questions, from "what is your favorite color?" to "do you prefer famous or normal people as subjects in paintings?"
The paintings produced are all (as one would expect) quite bad. Most people surveyed seem to be pretty damned sentimental. Something that I found interesting is that all of the most-wanted paintings had as their subject a landscape involving people, animals, and a body of water, except for Italy, Holland, and Germany. Holland was the only country where the painting came out as somewhat of an abstraction. All of the least wanted (aside from Denmark, Italy, and Holland) were some sort of geometric abstraction. The Dutch chose the smallest format as most-desireable (magazine size), while China chose the largest (wall-size).
This is Denmark's most-wanted painting, and my favorite of the bunch.
What do you think? I think this is pretty hot stuff. I'd love to see the show. |
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