>>5818942 (/pb)

In a series titled Chalkboard Paintings, large-scale compositions on canvas were primed with chalkboard paint, on which washes of white chalk and green and blue pigments were applied. These Abstract Expressionist-like works are reminiscent of actual chalkboards in a classroom, covered with unintentional erasures and marks, yet they have been conceptually executed by multiple deletions of figurative drawings and landscapes. By way of these gestures, the revenant outline of the erased drawings often emerges into the foreground. The final picture is a record of these movements.

https://www.hauserwirth.com/artists/2832-rita-ackermann

Makes you wonder what she is ritually erasing/obscuring. Sounds like more occultry.

Modern art was CIA ‘weapon'

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.

….To pursue its underground interest in America's lefty avant-garde, the CIA had to be sure its patronage could not be discovered. "Matters of this sort could only have been done at two or three removes," Mr Jameson explained, "so that there wouldn't be any question of having to clear Jackson Pollock, for example, or do anything that would involve these people in the organisation. And it couldn't have been any closer, because most of them were people who had very little respect for the government, in particular, and certainly none for the CIA. If you had to use people who considered themselves one way or another to be closer to Moscow than to Washington, well, so much the better perhaps.”….

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html?fbclid=IwAR2jboCXYcobayiLR0fCPCsTE5C-Rkr2p8VTDgLDo7HYYBv_bFvO5JlMlRI

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"2-3 removes." I would not expect this to have changed any.

>>5820160

Thanks. Because all it takes is a piss into Peggy Guggenheim's fireplace at a party to be the next Pollock. ;)

>>5820179

Art used to be about narrative in a visual work.

Modern art removes the visual narrative.

It shifts the narrative to the artist.

This places power unto "taste-makers."

Now is not about whether art is legit, is about artist.

Much occulted now.

Artist -Curator -> Gallery -> Board -> Foundations -> "Patrons"