https://www.reddit.com/r/modernart/comments/1bpaiae/shoot_um_moma_what_is_this/
Rothko's Untitled. I don't like abstract expressionism but he's probably the technical height of it from how much work actually went into that.
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According to the article you linked, the artists weren’t aware that the CIA was using them
They weren't aware, that's correct. I cannot fucking stand the online reactionary stance on modern art I see from leftists; abstract expressionism was promoted by the west strictly because it was the opposite of the official Soviet line on art, which was socialist realism, not because of the ideological content of the art itself. It's beyond intellectually lazy to be opposed to abstract art because of that.
Standing in front of a Mark Rothko painting was almost a fucking spiritual experience for me, not because of the capitalist messages hidden inside but because of the depth of color and texture that fills the perception
It’s not a hard sentence to understand. I guess this is your first time encountering someone who likes art that you don’t like
there's different tastes and then there's what you said. I don't like coffee, but it's comprehensible to me that someone would.
have you ever tried DMT?
no, but if I took it and looked at some garbage and felt something i'd attribute it to the drug, not the object.
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Thinking that because the CIA did something it was smart and effective, they do a tonneau of dumb silly shit thst goes no where.
Isn't it also largely because the early CIA/OSS was populated largely by Ivy Leaguers, with the associated cultural norms and biases?
having your work promoted because the cia likes it doesn't seem enough different to me than the cia commissioning stuff.