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> I find it incredible that an artwork that was apolitical and relatively tame would just be wholly prohibited from display. Later times, but abstract expressi
by plastic3169 2y ago
> I find it incredible that an artwork that was apolitical and relatively tame would just be wholly prohibited from display.
Later times, but abstract expressionism was used as a propganda tool in cold war and propped up by CIA. Nothing apolitical in paint splattered at seemingly random fashion.
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20161004-was-modern-art-a-weapon-of-the-cia https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20161004-was-modern-art-...