I Actually Take Issue with This Test
Your result for What Your Taste in Art Says About You Test...Simple, Progressive, and Sensual
14 Ukiyo-e, 0 Islamic, 1 Impressionist, -5 Cubist, -11 Abstract and -8 Renaissance!
Ukiyo-e (浮世絵, Ukiyo-e), "pictures of the floating world", is a genre of Japaneseand paintings produced between the 17th and the 20th centuries. it mostly featured landscapes, historic tales, theatre, and pleasure. Ukiyo is a rather impetuous urban culture that has bloomed in popularity. Although the Japanese were more strict and had many prohibitions it did not affect the rising merchant class and therefore became a floating art form that did not bind itself to the normal ideals of society.
People that chose Ukiyo-e art tend to be more simplistic yet elegant. They don't care much about new style but are comfortable in creating their own. They like the idea of living for the moment and enjoy giving and receiving pleasure. They may be more agreeable than other people and do not like to argue. They do not mind following traditions but are not afraid to move forward to experience other ideas in life. They tend to enjoy nature and the outdoors. They do not mind being more adventurous in their sexual experiences. They enjoy being popular and like being noticed. They have their own unique style of dress and of presenting themselves. They may also tend to be more business oriented or at the very least interested in money making adventures. They might make good entrepreneurs. They are progressive and adaptable.
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I know. It's just a dumb test someone made up. who cares and please don't be such an intellectual snotball, yes? But while I'm fully caffeinated I wanted to bring up a couple of points to make it better:
1. I think that the way the artwork is presented is skewed. For instance I don't really dig Japanese prints, but sometimes it was the most representative art on the page, and I prefer representative art.
2. Whole schools of western art and artists were missing: baroque/rococo, pre-raphaelite, symbolist, triptych Medieval. Not a lot of post-1950 work either, if any. No Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Pollock, Van Gogh, Degas, Sargent, Klimt, etc. The reason I'm bringing this up is these are schools and artists I gravitate to in particular.
3. The only non-Western art presented was Japanese and "Islamic". What about Indian, African, folk, etc?
4. The test ignores subjective preferences, such as specific subject matter (c'mon, I'm almost always going to choose paintings of people getting it on over, let's say, paintings of ships --- oh, and as a sub-rant, this is one of the problems with programs like iTunes Genius and Pandora --- that they ignore certain kinds of lyrics or themes and only focus on music --- yes, often pop music with a quasi-"Orientalist" tonality is going to have a metaphysical theme, but not always --- anyway.), or art that I/you/one has studied academically or seen in a museum.
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OK. End of rant. See, you put me for five days back on the East Coast, and my brain turns right on! *sulks*
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