/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4725419
>The CIA didn't do all that much, they sponsored a couple small things and the program was generally a failure. There's a paper about it, go find it.

You're the one who cited the paper, you go find it.

It isn't all just CIA, but also multiple parties involved with the government. The CIA and John D. Rockefeller were using abstract expressionism to fight the Cold War on a cultural front and did a lot for success of abstract expressionism considering the success of most of the famous abstract expressionists like Jackson Pollock, WIllem de Kooning, and Mark Rothko all were connected to their operation. Any abstract expressionist at the time with the right connections could have become popular and successful. The first director of MOMA was Alfred H. barr Jr., a right-wing McCarthyist. He is the artistic adviser to Peggy Guggenheim, the person who made Pollock successful. MOMA was founded by John D. Rockefeller. Pollock was initially shunned for his communist past by everyone, but miraculously became accepted overnight because of USIA's 100 American Artist show hosted by Rockefeller, who was working with the government.

https://msu.edu/course/ha/240/evacockroft.pdf

"Throughout the early 1940s MOMA engaged in a number of war-related programmes which set the pattern for its later activities as a key institution in the cold war... Primarily, MOMA became a minor war contractor..."

>>3282693
>A: I don't like it.
>B: You don't like it because you don't understand art history
>A: I have taken art history.
>B: Then you haven't seen it in person.
>A: I have seen it in person.
>B: Then you're just ignorant.

Literally every modern/contemporary art thread. Apparently, all modern/contemporary art is infallible and cannot be critiqued because they are perfect in every way possible. I doubt most people defending the modern/contemporary art pieces have even seen them in real life either. They feel whatever they like has to be liked by everyone, and everyone who doesn't like what they like is wrong. That is such a childish perspective. Everyone approach the world from their experience and perspective and are entitled to their opinions.

What the people defending modern/contemporary art is basically saying is unless you have to same set of experiences and perspective as they do, then you're not allowed to dislike modern/contemporary art.

>>3244903
Hey man, it's okay to have preferences in art, but do you know you sound arrogant when you tell others that what you like is better? Different people like different things, they don't have to all like what you like, and that is okay buddy.

>>2882336
what if its his style to have that mouth breathing glazed over look?

>>2886826
>trance
>taste
I'm sorry, but you're not going to make it

I want to get better in drawing just by constant looking at art. Is it possible?

>>2834085