After sur­vey­ing thou­sands of peo­ple around the world and online, artists Komar and Melamid pro­duced a series of paint­ings por­tray­ing the respon­dents’ results. The project was dubbed People’s Choice and con­sisted of the 30 most and least ‘wanted’ paint­ings for 14 coun­tries and the web as a whole.

Inter­est­ingly, the Dutch (and the Ital­ians, to some extent) were the only ones included in the sur­vey that ‘pro­duced’ a piece of abstract art as their favourite.

The artists also pro­duced an even more tongue-in-cheek work: The People’s Choice Music, con­sist­ing of ‘The Most Wanted Song’ (a love song with low male and female vocals, of mod­er­ate dura­tion, pitch, and tempo) and ‘The Most Unwanted Song’ (an oper­atic soprano rap­ping over cow­boy music fea­tur­ing bag­pipes and tubas).

via Cog­ni­tive Daily