When the CIA does Art...

Lavender Mist 1950- By Jackson Pollock

If the Central Intelligence Agency gets involved in the art world, you end up with Jackson Pollock. It’s true. Abstract art was once promoted by the CIA as a psyop and as propaganda. Did you realize that? No?

In 1949, Life magazine featured the artist asking if he was the world’s greatest living painter. You can see that article and read about the artist at this link to the National Gallery of Art.

The CIA developed a program called “Long Leash.” It was designed to show the Soviet Union that Capitalists were more culturally diverse and had more freedom of expression than Communists. Sort of like a big fat “SO THERE!

These artists didn’t know they were being used, hence the idea of a long leash. Jackson Pollock was one of the first artists they picked. He was an alcoholic with a touch of bi-polar. An artist who wasn’t having great success in sales. He made art by slinging paint onto a canvas as freedom of expression. The CIA had found the NEXT BIG THING.

Then to advertise this important work, the CIA set up shill organizations and publications, using TAXPAYER MONEY, to promote "art exhibits" and then they’d have shill buyers, using TAX money, pay extraordinary dollar amounts for Pollock’s work.

In other words, they generated an artificial market creating a demand. The fashionable society followed along like good sheep. And poof... The abstract art market was born. Jackson Pollock is still celebrated. Shitty art that your 2 year old could do is still Valuable thanks to the CIA, the American taxpayers, and a bunch of followers.

Read more about the Long Leash Program Here