Although paintings were made, the Web's Most Wanted and Web's Least Wanted are images of the paintings in context, intended to be viewed only on a computer screen. In their work, Komar and Melamid exhibit a notoriously Russian sense of wry humor and irony. Yet their Most Wanted paintings project cannot be contained within the boundaries of artistic satire or criticism. Through it, they strike at the deepest roots of Western cultural tradition as well as at the highest ideals of our society. In ancient Greece, when sculptors wanted to create an ideal human body they measured the most beautiful men and women and then made an average measurement, and that's how they described the ideal of beauty and how the most beautiful sculpture was created.
Numbers are innocent.
It's absolutely true data. It doesn't say anything about personalities, but it says something more about ideals, and about how this world functions. That's really the truth, as much as we can get to the truth. Truth is a number.