fascists and communists are united in their hatred of "degenerate" art, so i'm fine with it. if exposing the citizens of the USSR to Modern American art advanced the fall of the soviet union then w/e, if it also happened to give Rothko money to paint then that's a solid win.— cognitohazard (@bryanarchyNOW) June 3, 2021
I doubt the CIA actively created any kind of art as a propaganda vehicle. People who become deep state drones are the most boring, philistine normies you can think of or absolute psychos who don't have any care for art of any kind (besides cargo cult worship of shit like classical music that teacher told them was "good"). Same reason why none of your favorite podcasts are CIA ops - you can't do drugs and join the CIA (only sell them). They're fucking bores, they couldn't come up with convincing art.
The bigger goal is to bribe people like abstract artists and make sure that they don't become a threat.
The reasoning for elevating Pollock was to prevent art from making a statement. Pollock's art refused to mean anything. It was peak individualism, as you weren't viewing his art and seeing something everyone else also saw, experiencing a collective idea, you were seeing his art and drawing inferences from within your own mind.
I'm not sure the CIA like engineered Pollock in a lab or anything, I think some spook weirdo just liked his work because of the individualism aspect (probably couldn't even explain that was why). Something gets pushed around about creating/funding an alternative to socialist realism and Pollock gets some CIA cash.
I doubt the CIA actively created any kind of art as a propaganda vehicle. People who become deep state drones are the most boring, philistine normies you can think of or absolute psychos who don't have any care for art of any kind (besides cargo cult worship of shit like classical music that teacher told them was "good"). Same reason why none of your favorite podcasts are CIA ops - you can't do drugs and join the CIA (only sell them). They're fucking bores, they couldn't come up with convincing art.
The bigger goal is to bribe people like abstract artists and make sure that they don't become a threat.
The reasoning for elevating Pollock was to prevent art from making a statement. Pollock's art refused to mean anything. It was peak individualism, as you weren't viewing his art and seeing something everyone else also saw, experiencing a collective idea, you were seeing his art and drawing inferences from within your own mind.
I'm not sure the CIA like engineered Pollock in a lab or anything, I think some spook weirdo just liked his work because of the individualism aspect (probably couldn't even explain that was why). Something gets pushed around about creating/funding an alternative to socialist realism and Pollock gets some CIA cash.