How Art Made The World

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Your favourite type of art is Japanese ukiyo-e.

In the personality profile you had a high intellectualism score, which suggests you like to think about abstract ideas and have a creative imagination.

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People who are the same age and sex as you are most likely to prefer Impressionism

People who also score highly in your dominant personality trait are most likely to prefer Japanese ukiyo-e

Impressionism? UGH! But computer programmers like Japanese art, it is Proven By Science. Heh.

I liked the seagulls and the spearfishing Italian bits though.

People who also score highly in your dominant personality trait are most likely to prefer Japanese ukiyo-e.

I mean, come on, is it really so surprising that humans, throughout the ages, have been obsessed with human form? no. he said it more than five times, though, in "this isn't entirely obvious"/"you have probably not yet realised" ways.

People who also score highly in your dominant personality trait are most likely to prefer Japanese ukiyo-e

I've been told I like cubism. I don't know anything ABOUT cubism! Or Japanese ukiyo-e, for that matter

Arty people, cubism S/D please. And Japanese ukiyo-e S/D while you're there, please.

How odd.

I had you down as a Spongecraft man.

Interesting. I would never have said this, but actually I think my sensibility does lean to Islamic secular. I've been married to a muslim, and the urban environments I like have an Islamic feel (Brick Lane in London, Kreuzberg in Berlin). I might have fallen into the ukiyo-e camp on art if the examples they'd provided had been less hackneyed and a bit more splashy and strange, or contained less blue-green and more pink-red.

And yes, Ken, the first Islamic painting looks exactly like something from Duchamp's Green Box!

Willendorf's tits and arse are like red stripes on a lolly
Egyptians were conformists
Greeks took Egyptian sculpture and ran with it

Not enough Interesting Facts to merit a whole hour of telly but then I got lots of Interesting Facts from University Challenge and that doesn't have baby seagulls, so the evening averaged out quite well.

Your favourite type of art is Cubism.

In the personality profile you had a high intellectualism score, which suggests you like to think about abstract ideas and have a creative imagination.

People who are the same age and sex as you are most likely to prefer Japanese ukiyo-e.

People who also score highly in your dominant personality trait are most likely to prefer Japanese ukiyo-e.

I think Cubism is about right - I may have got Abstract but there were a couple of examples that I thought were below par (one had too much pink in it).

People who also score highly in your dominant personality trait are most likely to prefer Japanese ukiyo-e

I am fairly fond of impressionism, but I really like minimal art and Dada more than anything.

People who also score highly in your dominant personality trait are most likely to prefer Japanese ukiyo-e

I thought most of those secular Islamic pieces were Dadaist or Surrealist things.

In the personality profile you had a high intellectualism score, which suggests you like to think about abstract ideas and have a creative imagination.

People who are the same age and sex as you are most likely to prefer Japanese ukiyo-e

People who also score highly in your dominant personality trait are most likely to prefer Japanese ukiyo-e

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In the personality profile you had a high intellectualism score, which suggests you like to think about abstract ideas and have a creative imagination.

Find out more about your personality test results

People who are the same age and sex as you are most likely to prefer Cubism

People who also score highly in your dominant personality trait are most likely to prefer Japanese ukiyo-e.

I suspect I would have gotten NR (aesthetically similar to the NR paintings they use), except that I gave Brueghel the Elder's "Vase of Flowers" low marks for enjoyment. (Whatever that means - kind of an odd judge for artistic personality, isn't it?)

The only group that I really disliked (unsurprising to me) were the Impressionists. I really, truly just don't get the Impressionists (or else I'm blinded by 100 years of awful bougie culture rendering them wall-dressing).

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Oh, why the Spivey haterz? He's a PROFESSOR OF CLASSICAL (SPECIFICALLY GREEK) ART AT CAMBRIDGE!!! Of course he's going to be biased in favour of Greek statues. Everyone is entitled to their biases - especially as he said quite clearly it was merely HIS opinion.

How weird, I thought the "secular Islamic art" was just plain abstract sub-Mondrianism which obviously I loathe. I very much like non-secular Islamic art, but I would, because of all the patterns and text and sacred geometry and things.

I love the Spivey.

Spivy's not all that.

But SPivy's last words on the subject were about how it doesn't move him and how unimpressive it is, really.

The chap's fitness I am less qualified to comment on, suffice to say that he's too close to Peter Mandelson for comfort.

(I wonder if those were Spivey's daughters watching Babe with him.)

shit programme, still.