The objectives of this study were to examine the correlation between personality and preference of paintings and personality and tendency of individuals towards art: how much they estimate they love art, they are interested in art, to what extent they consider it important, how much they estimate themselves as the artistic type person, as well as the connection between artistic preference with age and sex. The study included 320 participants, of which 286 from the territory of the Republic of Croatia and 34 from abroad. Participants filled in the Croatian version of the personality Questionnaire IPIP50 with an additional ten items of openness to experience, also from IPIP domain and assessed a set of 24 images selected to represent an abstract, realistic and fictional art. The data were collected through an online survey. Results of the analysis showed the existence of correlation between dimensions of agreeableness and conscientiousness with preferences for realistic art, so as intellect with the preferences for the abstract and fictional art, as well as openness to experience with the preferences of all three types of art. Furthermore, there is a significant positive correlation between dimensions of agreeableness, conscientiousness, intellect and openness to experience with a tendency towards art. Overall, the age and gender were not shown to be significantly associated with artistic preferences.