This is my favorite fun fact and I don't talk about it much because it makes me feel like a tin foil nutter. What also motivated them was the Cold War and the abstract stuff seemed new and dynamic and befuddling to the communist world which was turning out heavy and somber "socialist realism" type art.
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This is my favorite fun fact and I don't talk about it much because it makes me feel like a tin foil nutter. What also motivated them was the Cold War and the abstract stuff seemed new and dynamic and befuddling to the communist world which was turning out heavy and somber "socialist realism" type art.