Tuesday, October 12, 2010

One of the things I found interesting about the final results of the survey was the composition of the final paintings. The compositions are pretty standard and formulaic. I assume it's probably the most objective way to create the paintings but it assumes that if a country prefers mountains that they prefer to see them in the left part of the painting rather than the right or that if there is a tree and an animal they must always be standing on the right side in the foreground. I am curious to know how the size of the geometric patterns are chosen. Many of the least wanted paintings are a series of squares in different colors that seem to be roughly the same size as the squares in all the other least wanted paintings. Why does geometry almost always mean square and not rectangle or trapezoid or anything else. Why does Portugal get crosses instead of squares and how come Denmark gets Don Quixote with an erection?

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