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Modern Art was not a CIA Psy-Op, because modern art is older than the CIA. Modern art started around the 1870s and was in full swing at the start of the 20th century. The CIA was founded in 1947.


A theory I like is that "modern art" was triggered by photography making a lot of painters unemployed around the 1870s.

So some unemployed painters tried their luck painting pictures a camera couldn't make.


I wonder what this generation's modern art response to AI art will be.


Nobody is accusing them of coming up with the styles. They just found the emptiest artistic movements with the least to say and flooded them with money and positive criticism.




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