What is the perfect work of art?

Is it by Hepworth or Hokusai? Is it a painting or a sculpture? More blue than red? Does it have a cat in it? These questions and more were put to eight individuals in a focus group at Dulwich Picture Gallery.

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Directed by Fred Rowson through production company Colonel Blimp

Image credits:
Barbara Hepworth, Wave, 1943 - 1944, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Art Funded 1999, © Bowness.; Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), Under the Wave off Kanagawa, c. 1831, The British Museum, Art Funded 2008, © Trustees of the British Museum.; William Morris, Original design for Fruit wallpaper, c. 1865, V&A, Art Funded 2009, © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.; August Rodin, The Burghers of Calais, 1884 – 1895, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Art Funded 1913, cast 1907-1908 © Photo: Rupert Harris conservation / © Photo: Mark Crick / © Philippa Lewis/ Edifice. ; Cornelis de Heem, Still Life of Flowers and Fruit Arranged on a Stone Plinth in a Garden, c.1685, National Trust, Art Funded 2015, © National Trust Images / John Hammond.; Linder, Untitled, 1976, Tate, © Linder, courtesy Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London.; Pablo Picasso, Weeping Woman, 1937, Tate, Art Funded 1988, © Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2017.;Piero di Cosimo, ‘The Forest Fire,' c.1505, Ashmolean Museum, Art Funded 1933, © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.; Giovanni Battista Pittoni, The Sacrifice of Jephtha's Daughter, Southampton City Art Gallery, Art Funded 1969, © Southampton City Art Gallery.; JMW Turner, The Blue Rigi, Sunrise, 1842, Tate, Art Funded 2007, © Tate, London 2017.; Bridget Riley, Winter Palace, 1981, Leeds Museums and Galleries (Leeds Art Gallery), Art Funded 1996, © Bridget Riley 2017.All rights reserved.; Sam Taylor-Johnson, Self-Portrait in a Single Breasted Suit with Hare, 2001, National Portrait Gallery, Art Funded in 2002, © the artist, courtesy White Cube.; Vanessa Bell (née Stephen), Virginia Woolf, 1912, Art Funded 1988, National Portrait Gallery, © National Portrait Gallery, London.; English School, The Drake 'Armada' portrait of Elizabeth I, 1588, Queen’s House, Royal Museums Greenwich, Art Funded 2016, © National Maritime Museum, London.; Lucian Freud, Man's Head (Self Portrait) 1963 (oil on canvas), 1922-2011), Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester, UK / © The Lucian Freud Archive /Bridgeman Images.; Julian Opie, Alex, bassist. Dave, drummer. Graham, guitarist. Damon, singer, 2000, National Portrait Gallery, Art Funded 2001, © Julian Opie courtesy of the Lisson Gallery.; Peter Blake, The Beatles 1962, 1963 – 1968, Pallant House Gallery, Art Funded 2006, © Peter Blake. All rights reserved, DACS 2017.; Sir Jacob Epstein, Maternity, Leeds Museums and Galleries (Leeds Art Gallery), Art Funded 1984/3, © Tate, London 2017.; Fiona Rae, Fast Breeder, 1997, 1997, Southampton City Art Gallery, Art Funded 1988, © Fiona Rae. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2017.; Diego Velázquez, The Toilet of Venus ('The Rokeby Venus'), 1647 - 1651, The National Gallery, Art Funded 1906, © The National Gallery, London.; John Constable, Fen Lane, East Bergholt, c. 1817, Tate, Art Funded 2002, © Tate, London 2017.; John Russell, Girl and Cat, 1745-1806, Tate, Art Funded 1940, © Tate, London 2017.; George Romney, Portrait of Mary Moser, c. 1770-1771, National Portrait Gallery, Art Funded 2003, © National Portrait Gallery.; Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Fazio's Mistress or Aurelia, 1863, National Gallery, Art Funded 1916, © The National Gallery, London.; Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Monna Vanna or Belcolore, 1866, Tate, Art Funded 1916, © Tate, London 2017