Artists Komar and Melamid created a 1995 project called "Most Wanted and Least Wanted Paintings" paintings (and, in another project, songs) based on their surveys of artistic preferences vary from different countries.

Their 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 ... expanded their market research to more than a dozen countries around the globe and in turn, created Most Wanted and Least Wanted paintings for each country."

Curiously, Holland's most and least wanted preferences are nearly the reverse of the other countries!

* The paintings: http://awp.diaart.org/km/painting.html (The United States' Most Wanted Painting's thumbnail is broken, but the linked picture works.)

* The survey data: http://awp.diaart.org/km/surveyresults.html