For outdoor scenes people prefer water, lakes and seas and sceneries in fall tints. For indoor paintings the favorites are domestic scenes with animals. The educational role of the art is of less importance, and people feel art can be just something one enjoys looking at. As to the techniques of the painting, people prefer expressive brush-strokes, thick textured surfaces, blended colors and paler shades of colors. In atmosphere, the paintings should show festive mood in simple settings.
Larger paintings are preferred, up to the size of a refrigerator door.
For about half of the respondents it makes no difference, whether the paintings depict famous or ordinary people. The fgures are preferred painted while working, fully clothed and in groups.