Survey

"What is your favorite color?"

Green.

"How important is the appearance or design of the following products in your decision to purchase the product?"

New Car: Not very.

Underwear: Not at all.

TV Set: Not very.

Winter Coat: Somewhat.

"What is your 2nd favorite color?"

Blue.

"When you select pictures, photographs, or other pieces of art for your home, do you find you lean more toward modern or more toward traditional styles?"

Modern.

"If you had to choose from the following list, which type of art would you say you prefer?"

Asian.

"Which of the following statements applies to you more?"

"When choosing pictures, photographs, or other art for my home, I focus on whether or not I like the piece".

"Would you say you prefer older objects or newer objects to collect or decorate you home?"

Newer.

"Would you say that you prefer seeing paintings of wild animals, like lions, giraffes, or deer, or that you prefer seeing paintings of domestic animals, like dogs, cats or other pets?"

Ugh, neither but if I had to pick one, wild.

"In general, would you rather see paintings of outdoor scenes or would you rather see paintings of indoor scenes?"

Indoor scenes, because when I think outdoor, I think Thomas Kinkade cabins in Thomas Kinkade forests with Thomas Kinkade rivers.

Which of the following outdoor scenes appeals to you the most?

Paintings of: city

Which season would you most like to see depicted in a painting?: Winter

Which of the following types of indoor scenes appeals to you most?: people

"Do you tend to prefer paintings that are related to religion or those that are not related to religion?"

Not related.

"Which of the following statements is closest to your view?"

"Paintings don't necessarily have to teach us any lessons, but can just be something a person likes to look at".

"Which of the following statements is closest to your view?"

"I prefer paintings that are different-looking if they're very realistic, I might as well be looking at a photography".

"Do you prefer paintings that exaggerate the dimensions or reality of objects we already know, or ones that feature imaginary objects which have no connection to everyday life?"

They're both great! Though I prefer the ones with no connection to everyday life.

"Do you prefer seeing bold, stark designs or more playful, whimsical designs?"

Bold, stark designs.

"Do you tend to favor paintings with sharp angles or ones with soft curves?"

Sharp angles.

"Which patterns do you like better: geometric patterns or more random uneven patterns?"

Random uneven.

"Do you like to see expressive brush-strokes on the canvas, or do you prefer that the surface of the canvas be smooth, more like a photograph?"

Expressive.

"Do you like to see colors blend into each other or do you like it when different colors are kept apart?"

Blend!

"Every color has a wide range of shades. Take the color blue, for example. An artist can use a bright, vibrant shade of blue, like a royal blue, a pale, muted shade of blue, like light blue, or a darker tone of blue, like dark or midnight blue. In general, which would you say that you prefer? when the artist uses more vibrant shades, paler shades, or darker shades of color?"

Vibrant.

"In general, do you enjoy paintings that have a more serious or a more festive mood?"

Serious.

"And how about the painting itself - do you like it to be busy and contain lots of people or objects, or do you like it to be as simple as possible?"

Simple.

"How about the size of paintings: do you prefer larger paintings or smaller paintings?"

Larger. Full-size refrigerator.

"Some paintings are of famous historical figures and others are of more ordinary people. Do you generally prefer paintings of famous people, or ones of more ordinary paintings."

Ordinary.

"If you prefer famous people, do you prefer figures from a long time ago, like Lincoln or Jesus, or more recent figures, like John F. Kennedy or Elvis Presley?"

n/a. It's boring.

"Do you prefer paintings which are predominantly of children, of women, or of men, or doesn't it matter?"

Doesn't matter.

"Thinking back to the paintings of people that you have like in the past, for the most part were the figure working, at leisure, or were they posed portraits?"

Working.

"Which do you think you like better, a painting of one person or of a

group of people?"

I don't think this, I know this. Group of people.

"And from what you've seen, would you say that you prefer paintings in which the person or people are nude, partially clothed or fully clothed?"

Fully clothed. It's more interesting.

"If you were given the choice of a gift - a sum of money or a piece of art that you genuinely like and which was of equal value to the money, which would you choose?"

Money. I'd use it to create my own art.

"Which one of the following would be most important to you in deciding how much money you would spend on a painting?"

The degree to which I like the painting. I'd never buy some ugly thing I didn't like to put up unless I was feeling particularly ironic.

"What is the most amount of money you would consider spending on a piece of art you really like?"

No idea, because I've never had the kind of cash that would allow me to even consider it.

"For each of the following names, indicate if your impressions of that artist's work are very favorable, favorable, or very unfavorable. Some of these artists are not very well known, so if you have never heard of someone, or don't know enough about their work to have an opinion, just say so."

Pablo Picasso: I really love his colorful pieces. Favorable.

Norman Rockwell: Don't know him.

Jackson Pollock: Don't know him.

Salvador Dali: His imagination is great. Favorable.

Leroy Neiman: Don't know him.

Claude Monet: Very beautiful work; favorable.

Rembrandt: I like it. Favorable.

Andy Warhol: It's alright. Not particularly interesting to me.

Georgia O'Keefe: "ooh look at me I paint vagina flowers it's symbolic and deep". I don't really care for her work. It's well-made and such but I just don't care.

"If you could pick one type of person you'd most enjoy having dinner with, would you choose an artist, a television or movie actor, an author, or a sports star?"

I eat alone.

"How often, on average, would you say that you go to art museums - more than two times a year, one or two times a year, less than once a year, or not at all?

Less than once a year.

"The following are some reasons people have given in the past as to why they do not go to art museums more often. For each reason, please tell whether it is a major reason why you do not go to musuems more often, a minor reason, or not a reason at all:"

1. there is not an art museum in my area: not a reason

2. I do not have enough spare time: not a reason

3. I don't feel comfortable in art museums because I don't know alot about art: not a reason

4. the cost of admission is too expensive: not a reason

5. I simply don't enjoy looking at art: not a reason

(Secret answer: I don't have a car!)

"Would you favor or oppose spending more money in federal taxes than we do on the arts?"

Favor.

"Some works of art are displayed in public places. Do you think that average citizens should or should not have a say in determining which works of art are appropriate to be displayed in public?"

That's unfair. They should.

"When it comes to most political issues, do you think of yourself as a liberal, a conservative, or a moderate? If moderate, do you think of yourself as being closer to being liberal or being conservative?"

I don't know anything about politics because I don't care about them because I can't have any effect on them so it doesn't matter to me. When politics come up, I avoid the subject and if it is pursued I just try to piss off whoever's ranting to me about them.

"Which of the following income categories includes your total family income in 1992 before taxes?"

Jesus Christ, I don't know. I don't know that for this year, either.

"What is your gender?"

I am male.

1. Do you think that your answers  are similar or different from most Americans? In what ways are they similar, and different?

I think that my answers are different from most Americans, because most Americans are not weird anti-social shut-ins like me so I have an odd outlook on life.

2. Which questions do you think  would be the most helpful if  one was using market research to design new paintings for sale? What questions would you ask differently, or leave out entirely?

I think that the questions pertaining to the visual aspects of the paintings are the most helpful. Honestly, none of these questions seem like they would be necessary to leave out. They're all asking about key aspects of art that could be used to cobble together a piece of work that is marketable.

3. Would this work? Why or why not?

Kinkade already showed us that if you take a bunch of aspects that appeal to the average person and cobble them together in a soulless piece of garbage, people will devour it.  You can try all you like to create a painting that has all of these specific properties that people like to it, but any artist will see right through your shitty fake painting and see that it's horribly bland.