{"id":249091,"date":"2026-01-24T06:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T06:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/249091\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T06:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T06:04:15","slug":"french-say-they-love-art-but-rarely-visit-exhibitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/249091\/","title":{"rendered":"French say they love art, but rarely visit exhibitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                     <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/41bf0c0_upload-1-f0awfilww8vm-bat-couv-500-ss-cb.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of the 500th issue of Beaux-Arts Magazine, which reads: 'The French and art, a crazy love affair!'\"   width=\"664\" height=\"443\"\/>    Cover of the 500th issue of Beaux-Arts Magazine, which reads: &#8216;The French and art, a crazy love affair!&#8217;  BEAUX ARTS MAGAZINE                 <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">Let it be known that it is no mere stereotype: The French have a genuine appreciation for art \u2013 and for the most contemporary creations. That is the key takeaway from a survey unveiled on Thursday, January 22, commissioned by Beaux Arts Magazine from Ipsos-BVA to mark the publication&#8217;s 500th issue and new format. According to the survey, conducted in December 2025 among a sample of 1,000 people about their artistic interests, photography leads the way with 45% of responses, followed by painting (40%) and drawing (26%). Among younger respondents, fashion ranks third.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">A deliberately subjective list of 24 artists was presented to those surveyed. They were instructed to select only three from a roster that included Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Claude Monet (1840-1926), Yayoi Kusama, JR, Daniel Buren, Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1654) and Maurizio Cattelan, among others. Unsurprisingly, the giants of art history topped the preferences. Leonardo da Vinci garnered 36% of votes, far ahead of the rest, followed by Van Gogh, Monet and Picasso.<\/p>\n<p class=\"reading-mode-only \">You have 74.08% of this article left to read. The rest is for subscribers only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cover of the 500th issue of Beaux-Arts Magazine, which reads: &#8216;The French and art, a crazy love affair!&#8217;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-249091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}