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People who go into Quebec art galleries seem to be mixed up not understanding the content of the works and then people go out. Freedom of expression being more important than the beauty of a work, that is the reason why I claim that we are in a cultural decadence in the visual arts. The CIA, patron of Abstract Expressionism The historian Frances Stonor Saunders, author of the masterful study on the CIA and the cultural cold war, has just published in the British press new details on the secret sponsorship of the CIA for abstract expressionism. La Repubblica wonders about the ideological use of this artistic trend. -------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko. Nothing less than easy and even scandalous, the masters of abstract expressionism. A current really against the current, a slap to the certainties of the bourgeois society, which nevertheless ha