Scientific Attempt To Create Most Wanted and Least Wanted Paintings (according to country)

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Most Wanted and Least Wanted Paintings (according to country)

lol at holland being all 'ya we are radical and mesh vith your conwentional stereotypes'

The interweb's most wanted

http://www.diacenter.org/km/web/most.jpg

The Internet's least wanted:
http://files.dmusic.com/music/h/a/halfdeaf/soooooo.jpg

props to italy for its least wanted

http://www.diacenter.org/km/ita/least.jpg

they did this with music too... the least wanted song is hilarious

ya slocki maybe you should start an ilm thread on that..... or u could just read the first post in this thread.

This happened a while ago, I thought.

ha, <3 holland. what's going on in the web's least wanted? the internet hates paintings that feature books?

yeah isn't this like 10 years old or more?

Dia's second artists' project for the world wide web, begun in 1995, was created by the Russian emigrant artist team Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid. The Most Wanted paintings, as well as the Least Wanted paintings, reflect the artists' interpretation of a professional market research survey about aesthetic preferences and taste in painting. Intending to discover what a true "people's art" would look like, the artists, with the support of the Nation Institute, hired Marttila & Kiley, Inc. to conduct the first poll. In 1994, they began the process which resulted in America's Most Wanted and America's Least Wanted paintings, which were exhibited in New York at the Alternative Museum under the title "People's Choice."

http://www.diacenter.org/km/

i visited the dia center with a class when i was at NYU and had a discussion with one of these dudes (don't remember which), so yeah, this isn't exactly a current project. when i first saw some of the 'most wanted' / 'least wanted' paintings I thought it was a wry criticism of popular/populist artwork but it turns out the project is far more sincere than that -- like they actually believe they can arrive at the most appealing artwork through aggregated polling data. it's interesting concept but kinda blinkered and fatuous.

I dont really buy the "sincerity" -- at the time that this project was begun it was much less overdone to mock things like focus grouping and polling data, and I'm pretty sure any "sincere" response is just them deadpanning.

I REALLY never tire of that 'so not gonna happen' master-peice...

I've always wondered - do you think they're in his room? The flannel bedspread, family guy poster, nintendo and general mess say yes.

lol hurting

so not gonna happen

hahahahaha

There was a thread about this a few years ago, but I can't remember the title.

yeah there's no way to find it now... if only the picture was constantly referred to by the title of the thread

do you reckon that guy boned those two chicks or what?

I meant there was a thread a few years ago about these most wanted and least wanted paintings, I wasn't talking about "So not gonna happen".