From those wonderful people who brought you link-testing...

In 1993, some American researchers did some...research. They asked 1001 Americans what their views were of "good art". A bit like what market researchers here do with ads and the like. Recruit people in a caravan at a shopping mall - you know how it works. Anyway, based on this insightful information, Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid created the perfect painting.

It's a painterly landscape featuring George Washington, a strolling family, deer and a bellowing hippo. And yeah, it's as nasty as it sounds. You don't want to see it.

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