Kozloff went on to argue that Abstract Expressionism was “a form of benevolent propaganda”, in sync with the post-war political ideology of the American government. Pollock said that everyone ...

The incredible story of how America's CIA used the art of Abstract Expressionism as a weapon during its Cold War fight ...

Against a USSR perceived as totalitarian and oppressive, with state-sanctioned socialist realism coming across as kitsch and formulaic propaganda, abstract expressionism, with its variety of ...

Photo via Getty Images. The secrecy with which the CIA pursued Abstract Expressionism was not only integral to successfully fooling the Soviet Union but also to keeping any associated artists in ...

From Neoclassicism to Expressionism." Messerschmidt is best known for the roughly 50 "character heads" he sculpted at the end of his life, busts of men (in some cases himself) whose faces are ...