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https://www.reddit.com/r/modernart/comments/1bpaiae/shoot_um_moma_what_is_this/

Rothko's Untitled. I don't like abstract expressionism but he's probably the technical height of it from how much work actually went into that.

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[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago (25 children)

fuck the cia fuck all their artists and fuck defending this garbage.

For decades in art circles it was either a rumour or a joke, but now it is confirmed as a fact. The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art - including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko - as a weapon in the Cold War. In the manner of a Renaissance prince - except that it acted secretly - the CIA fostered and promoted American Abstract Expressionist painting around the world for more than 20 years.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html

[–] PapaEmeritusIII@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (11 children)

According to the article you linked, the artists weren’t aware that the CIA was using them

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

having your work promoted because the cia likes it doesn't seem enough different to me than the cia commissioning stuff.

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