Bob Ross 007

[bluegargantua]

Hi,

For decades in art circles it was either a rumour or a joke, but now it is confirmed as a fact. The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art - including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko - as a weapon in the Cold War. In the manner of a Renaissance prince - except that it acted secretly - the CIA fostered and promoted American Abstract Expressionist painting around the world for more than 20 years.

later
Tom

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That's whacky

[drwex]

I particularly love the world-view that the CIA was where all the effete liberal intellectuals went to avoid the right-wing demagoguery of Hoover's FBI and McCarthy's Congress.