Nebula@fedia.io to memes@lemmy.world · 11 days ago[OC] Personal opinion on Jackson Pollock's drip artimagemessage-square140linkfedilinkarrow-up1486arrow-down157
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minus-squaregedaliyah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·11 days agoDidn’t the CIA covertly drive up his price by secretly overpaying for his paintings?
minus-squareValmond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·11 days 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.
minus-squareNebula@fedia.ioOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·11 days agoNever heard of that, but I love an actual (with evidence) conspiracy theory. Spare me any conspiracy hypotheses tho, please.
minus-squareAkasazh@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 days 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.
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Didn’t the CIA covertly drive up his price by secretly overpaying for his paintings?
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.
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.