Nebula@fedia.io to memes@lemmy.world · 4 months ago[OC] Personal opinion on Jackson Pollock's drip artfedia.ioimagemessage-square128linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squaregedaliyah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoDidn’t the CIA covertly drive up his price by secretly overpaying for his paintings?
minus-squareNebula@fedia.ioOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoNever heard of that, but I love an actual (with evidence) conspiracy theory. Spare me any conspiracy hypotheses tho, please.
minus-squareAkasazh@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agohttps://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/36240/did-cia-fund-abstract-artists-to-take-attention-from-social-realism This exchange has quite a few sources in it.
minus-squareValmond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoYes, they financed lots of art in the fifties/sixties to: A) Show the west had better culture/art than the Soviet Union B) Infiltrate those pesky leftists That’s why we have Pollack and other crap “artists”. Pollack didn’t even invent the whole “pouring” thing, some lady in an esatblock country did IIRC.
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Didn’t the CIA covertly drive up his price by secretly overpaying for his paintings?
Never heard of that, but I love an actual (with evidence) conspiracy theory. Spare me any conspiracy hypotheses tho, please.
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/36240/did-cia-fund-abstract-artists-to-take-attention-from-social-realism
This exchange has quite a few sources in it.
Thanks, I will give this a read.
Yes, they financed lots of art in the fifties/sixties to:
A) Show the west had better culture/art than the Soviet Union
B) Infiltrate those pesky leftists
That’s why we have Pollack and other crap “artists”. Pollack didn’t even invent the whole “pouring” thing, some lady in an esatblock country did IIRC.