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To: C19fan

Art lost its meaning over a century ago. Since then it has been a running competition for most silly and profane.


18 posted on 02/01/2016 7:12:00 AM PST by lurk
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To: lurk

Since photography eroded the market for representational art, which could approach but not surpass the camera in accuracy, to create something new meant going where they pretty much had to go. And if you believe what you read, the CIA pushed abstract art in a deliberate attempt to undermine Soviet realism. Pollock was a product of the Cold War.


26 posted on 02/01/2016 8:31:40 AM PST by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: lurk

Since photography eroded the market for representational art, which could approach but not surpass the camera in accuracy, to create something new meant going where they pretty much had to go. And if you believe what you read, the CIA pushed abstract art in a deliberate attempt to undermine Soviet realism. Pollock was a product of the Cold War.


27 posted on 02/01/2016 8:31:40 AM PST by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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