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The Most Wanted Paintings on the Web By Azad, (DT) December 16, 1999 1:25 PM PT |
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The Most Wanted Paintings on the Web, the Dia Center for the Arts second artists' project for the Web, begun in 1995, was created by the Russian emigrant artist team Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid.?As quoted by Michael Govan, director of the Dia:
In an age where opinion polls and market research invade almost every aspect of our "democratic/consumer" society (with the notable exception of art), Komar and Melamid's project poses relevant questions that an art-interested public, and society in general often fail to ask: What would art look like if it were to please the greatest number of people? Or conversely: What kind of culture is produced by a society that lives and governs itself by opinion polls? |
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