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wasn't René Magritte and "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" long before there was a CIA? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images https://en.wikipedia.org/w
by MichaelMoser123 3y ago
wasn't René Magritte and "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" long before there was a CIA? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images
Also Picasso was a real commie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso#Political_views https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso#Political_views - also Diego Rivera, and Frida Kahlo.
- coldtea 3y agoThose were surrealism, cubism and muralism respectively. The modern art they refer to in the article concerns different, post-1950 kinds...
- MichaelMoser123 3y agoStill it sounds funny that they would need to employ the CIA in order to finance the Museum of Modern art in... New York, doesn't it? The USA had the "Congress for Cultural Freedom", the Soviet Union had it's "World Peace Council", funny kind of influence peddling. wikipedia has a list of "Communist front organizations" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Communist_front_organizations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Communist_front_organ... and one for "CIA front organizations" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Central_Intelligence_Agency_front_organizations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Central_Intelligence_... And nowadays the spooks are all busy with trolling on twitter (the taxpayers money is doing some real work :-) )