Babies as young as four months have taste in fine art, study shows

The researchers said aspects of artistic preferences may be hardwired from an early age

A toddler looking at images from the Van Gogh Alive experience in Edinburgh (Jane Barlow/PA)

Our taste in fine art can develop from a very early age, researchers have said, after they found babies as young as four months can demonstrate artistic preferences.

When shown landscapes by the Dutch post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh, psychologists at the University of Sussex found both babies and adults mostly favoured the same paintings, with Green Corn Stalks (1888) proving to be the most popular.