You're in the 50s. would you rather adhere abstract expressionism or socialist realism?

You're in the 50s. would you rather adhere abstract expressionism or socialist realism?

Abstract expressionism is GOAT.

Abstract expressionism. Socialist """"""""""art"""""""""" is boring and shit-tier.

alright artfags, what is this style called?

Soviet classicism.

kek is Stalin creepingly caressing her

> please comrade secretary general, only a few brushes left
> hmmmmmmmmmm
> I´m almost done with your shadow, now if you....
> hmmmmgggggggggg

>Handhooving Stalin

the one with bigger tits

You know that capitalism is complete shit when even something as retarded and modernist as communism manages to produce more traditionalist art.

Neoclassicism

You can blame the CIA. Literally.

When you think CIA, think all the bluster and boorishness of a professor but given extralegal powers to do shit, as long as it improves something that might be tangentially related to protecting the US.

So you got all these cock sure men who saw socialist realism as a challenge from the commies. So they started funding all this abstract shit to the tune of millions of dollars.

Jackson Pollack would've been a fucking nobody, a footnote in some art history book, but the CIA funded him indirectly.

This is the kind of cultural cock waving that's infuriating as a private citizen. Like don't fucking saddle me with word salad as to why it's so innovative. To hear all
the insufferable words of shitty secular men who made art into a form of secular worship.

"You'd get it but you're not sophisticated enough."

The CIA didn't conjure abstract expressionism out of thin air. For it to be usable as international outreach and soft propaganda (such as The New American Painting exhibition, 58-59) it had to be extant and popular at the very least within the art establishment internationally so that major galleries in Europe would pick up those major travelling exhibitions. It's a convenient bogeyman to explain away why some people like things that you don't.

degenerate cuck

>implying the baroque period and the pre raphaelite movement isn't god tier

Nah, you're the cuck. You are a minnow that lacks the confidence to express your own opinions as such, so you have to tie them somehow to a fantasy of objective truth that just so happens to align with your opinions. Grow a pair.

I think if abstract expressionism still held a high premium on technique it would probably the greatest movement to date.

bump

Well it does set a high premium on technique still.

The problem is, even abstract expressionism is kind of traditional at this point.

Socialist realism takes objective skill to produce. Modern "art" requires no skill. It isn't even art. It's just shit.

Pop art, fuck bitches

>t. stemcuck

my nigga

Socialist realism no doubt

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All garbage.

wew lad

They didn't conjure it but they gave tons of money to insitutions and art dealers to hype it up as an alternative to Soviet Realism.

PS: Abstract surrealism all day, errday