That was very astute of the CIA. Trolling "the enemy" to provoke an overreaction and make them look bad.

It could happen in modern times too, promote harmless social ideas that leaders of China and Russia overreact to while the West passively tolerates.

I have no clue if Pollock was a CIA psyop or not, but were it so, it wouldn't detract from the paintings. They are inventive and pushed boundaries.

The PROMOTION of artists like Pollock might have been a CIA psyop, but I don't think the artists themselves were working for the CIA.

Then Kandinsky (and other Suprematists) were what, Russian Tsar's psyop?

Because surely you can't beat a literal black square[1] in the "come on, you call this art?!" category.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Square