The Most Expensive Paintings of All Time

american abstract expressionism is very different to soviet art. There's no realism. It doesn't appear to have any purpose, it's all over the place. The most expensive paintings were paintings from the 19 fifties in America - more than picasos and focinmanes. And you got to ask yourself, why is this? How did that happen? Ar they really work that much? How does this come about? So we have to contecturalize all this within the cold war. If you don't know what the cold war was, it wasn't a war. It was an era of unrest after war, war too. This was the cold war