Dave McKean, Jim Henson Studios and Neil Gaiman.

This will be brilliant.

Christo's at it again with his gate project in Central Park NY
Past work by Christo here

Pablo Picasso and Warhol 1st and 2nd place for the last 5 years. Check it out

Check out the algorithm used to plot these rankings

In reference to the Russian "socialist realism" imposed by Stalin on creatives - artists and writers - in 1930s Russia.

"...reading socialist realism as politically charged "totalitarian art" and presents it as above all a form of technically proficient, occasionally even virtuoso, government-commissioned academic art with strong roots in social, political, and national contexts."

-Article here

This really smacks of political "branding" through pundintry ala "mission accomplished" or slick campaign advertising in the form of commercials or using a propaganda-by-deed stickering your own car or picketing your own lawn with a campaign pledge. The early/mid 1900s in Europe and Russia is a virtual 'how-to' using design art as a toothy weapon of cohersion.

"...By the 1930s, the new Russian intelligentsia consisted of over 80 percent working-class men and women with peasant backgrounds. As the masses improved their economic and social status, they grew more confident in their own artistic taste(s), which were mostly traditional and conservative. Thus, the growing monopoly of socialist realism was "not purely and simply an art conditioned by politics, but, equally and perhaps more profoundly, an art conditioned by conservative common tastes--tastes shared in some measure by Stalin and the politburo, Russian painters, and the population as a whole..."

I read this to mean, in the vacuum that is mass society, a public left to their own naivity in artistic tastes will not only swallow "totalitarian art" but crave it and relate to the seemingly common message it is broadcasting, even if it coherses them into changing their moral or ethical values.

I use as support a quote from Herman Goering, he said

"Naturally, the common people dont want war, But afterall, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag people along whether it is democracy, or a fascist dictatorship or a parliament or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no-voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country."

-Herman Goering, Hitler's Reich-Marshall at the Nuremberg Trials

I guess all I am saying is think for yourself.