Artists Komar & Melamid commissioned surveys to create "most wanted" (landscape) and "least wanted" (abstract) paintings.
I suspect elites like abstraction not for its own sake but because the populace dislikes it. It allows them to distinguish themselves as better.
Why do people like landscapes with trees, lake, hills? My guess is that it is naturally evolved: these are the places a hunter-gatherer will desire to live.
These artists did this in the 90s in several countries with similar results.
awp.diaart.org/km/painting.ht…
More on Komar and Melamid
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Grok's landscape
This by Grok is maybe closer to Komar and Melamid's
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