Ha! According to this cunning journalist, Michael Jackson, in chiseling and bleaching away at his body, was enacting something analogous to the ideas established by Komar and Melamid in their World's Most Wanted Paintings research (Rob Tannenbaum/NY Mag):

I thought about artists Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, who in the mid-nineties hired pollsters to determine the qualities people most liked to see in a painting and used the research to determine color, theme, and other elements in their canvasses. Michael Jackson did something similar, without the formality of polling (...)  A pollster would likely find what Jackson discovered: The most popular singer in America would be black, but not too black; male, but not masculine; sensual, but not sexual.

Way to make a connection to Russian art, Mr Tannenbaum.