ABSTRACT
This week, the organisers of London’s biggest art fair which opens today polled 1,000 men and women in the street. Passers by were asked to name a wellknown artist and then the votes were added up.
Quite a question, if you are not expecting it. Who comes to mind? Maybe Van Gogh? Would Monet get a look in, or if not, surely Rembrandt would? Not at all. The result was very unexpected:
Some of the world’s greatest artistic geniuses got less than 5% of the voteRembrandt, for instance, and Francis Bacon. Turner did better with 14%, Constable very well with 23%. But the winner, with 38%, was the real surprise. It was the popular Australian, Rolf Harris.
