Re:Was Modern Art a CIA Psy-Op?
by jojobas on Friday June 02, 2023 @01:30AM
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It was not created as a psy-op, however it got out of obscurity as a psy-op.
I like to think that without government funding, art like 20 meters of a wall covered in cardboard boxes or tomato soup cans wouldn't take off.
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Pop-art and similar is really a reaction to abstract expressionism and as such belongs more to postmodernism. Modernism was more or less over by that time.
Van Gogh, Kandinsky, Malevich, Picasso, Mondrian, Matisse etc were very far from obscure by the time the CIA was even founded.