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General Category => General Talk => Topic started by: Boulvae on March 12, 2009, 11:03:25 pm
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http://www.diacenter.org/km/intro.html
The Results:
http://www.diacenter.org/km/surveyresults.html
The Paintings:
http://www.diacenter.org/km/painting.html
You ever wondered what the most wanted and unwanted paintings are? Well there they are, apparently.
Some russian scientist guys, the same who did the most wanted and unwanted songs, did this project too. Now the uncanny thing is about roughly 11 of them are pretty much the god damned same thing. A tree (the exact same tree), big ocean/lake, some hills, deer, scarcly different terrain (plains), some patriotism/national symbol, and big blue skies all in the same location of each painting. I geuss it's cause they're the same painting done by different artisits, but man. The only one out of them that is unique is Russia's, and even the tree is different with a little island in the background for China.
Some of the least wanted options are a little funny like the naked statue, power ranger, and elvis one clumped together for Italy when you'd expect it for America. And Denmark's.
BTW, we need an Arts section to discuss art.
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There's an entire forum on this site dedicated to talking about art u know
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Holland's weird man. Their most wanted looks like everyone else's least wanted and their most wanted looks kinda like everyone elses most wanted (the cat is the tree, the window is the sky, the shelf is the moutnain)
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(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/www.diacenter.org/km/den/least.jpeg)
ahhahaha that is amazing
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that must be a cry of joy for whatever hes doin. if i had his..."frame", i wouldn't be upset.
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Wow. I want that painting.
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"MY WORLD IS A CROTCH!!!"
How can you not like that painting.
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"MY WORLD IS A CROTCH!!!"
How can you not like that painting.
I don't think they showed them the painting, but asked people what they disliked. and let's face it a lot of gw would, if asked about nudity in art, balk if the question also said "how about huge brown dicks?"
so it's not like they dislike the painting so much as the painting is a combo of dislikes; a giant penis done in a digital style.
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if you squint, every 'wanted' painting is the SAME ONE
except for holland of course. I wonder if they took the survey high, because I imagine that painting looks quite smashing... ON WEED
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I listened to a podcast about this and yes they commented on how they're all lake scenes and usually feature people and mountains except for the netherlands. the guy joked it was because they had too much natural beauty there.
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(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/www.diacenter.org/km/ita/least.jpeg)
elvis and power rangers
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(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/www.diacenter.org/km/ita/least.jpeg)
elvis and power rangers
first of all, i like this painting over the generic tree paintings...
second, this survey must be flawed somehow. did the people only have an option between like 15 really bad paintings?
i'm to lazy to read the details right now, but it seems pretty messed up. :fogetshrug:
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I'm pretty sure they asked people what they liked to see. do you think they really just made different landscape photos and made people choose?
so in the above people said they didn't like pop culture shit and fully fleshed out dicks.
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whoaa, most ordinary people have an awful taste in art? no way!
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what does this have to do with taste in art
i thought it was kind of funny when they asked people if they prefer to see domesticated or wild animals in paintings and most said domestic though. dogs playing poker, please
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This is completely arbitrary. It's not like the average person has the innate ability to visualize vague survey questions. This is kind of like a web developer asking his prospective client DO YOU WANT BUTTONS ON YOUR SITE Y/N.
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okay, so if i read this correctly, they broke down paintings into stupid questions like "do you like straight lines or curved lines?" then surveryed a few thousand people in a bunch of countries and on the internet. then they got different artists from each of the countries to paint a piece based on the results.
that's like asking 5 different artists to paint a picture of a red circle centered on a blue background and being shocked when they turn out the same.
the individual questions asked have little to do with the overall painting ("what's your second favourite colour?" wtf?).
some of the results don't even add up to 100%...
boulvae, where did you find this?
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whoaa, most ordinary people have an awful taste in art? no way!
Yeah, let's leave opinions to pros.
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Yeah, let's leave opinions to pros.
damn a burn by shadowkirby.
seriously though everyone stop reading this like it's some statement about artistic taste even. it clearly isn't!
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damn a burn by shadowkirby.
seriously though everyone stop reading this like it's some statement about artistic taste even. it clearly isn't!
I for one am glad that this topic isn't in the subforum for discussing such matters then.
Really this topic is giving off a "general" vibe in an uncanny manner.
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yeah I showed my brother this and thought it was funny how Holland's painting is all abstract druggie art
both of Italy's paintings are pretty weird where did that come from
also both the web paintings annoy me like the internet in general
yeah it would've been more interesting if it was based on something that led to those exact paintings, like in terms of what people's other favorite paintings are I dunno
I like this book cover they did better
http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/bestsellers-2006/791-1.jpg