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Abstract Art and the CIA

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Abstract Expressionism in the 19th Century

abstract expressionism was rejected by the american congress as seen as being comme bullshet. Moscow in those days was very vicious in its denunciation of any kind of nonconformity. So if you would have attempted an abstract painting in soviet russia, you'd have been focked off to the go lag,. because that's threatening to an atartarian system. That's what these splattered afokin marks of paint on canvases came to represent, ideologically. And the c i a spotted this. Now, this is not conspiracy, no, it is conspiracy. In the 19 fifties, this was straight up secret, covert, anti folkin communist,

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