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George A. Dondero didn't like art too much...
He was a strict McCarthyite, who used his position to mount an attack on modern art (and it should be noted that Dondero had no artistic training). He once exclaimed that, "Cubism aims to destroy by designed disorder... Dadaism aims to destroy by ridicule... Abstractionism aims to destroy by the creation of brainstorms,". In 1952, Dondero went as far as to tell Congress that modern art was, in fact, a conspiracy by Moscow to spread communism in the United States. This speech, won him the International Fine Arts Council's Gold Medal of Honor for "dedicated service to American Art." The award symbolizes the real reason for the attack on communism in the arts which was the American Modernist-Traditionalist Controversy that took place in America in the 1950s.
He was kind of a dick.
He was a strict McCarthyite, who used his position to mount an attack on modern art (and it should be noted that Dondero had no artistic training). He once exclaimed that, "Cubism aims to destroy by designed disorder... Dadaism aims to destroy by ridicule... Abstractionism aims to destroy by the creation of brainstorms,". In 1952, Dondero went as far as to tell Congress that modern art was, in fact, a conspiracy by Moscow to spread communism in the United States. This speech, won him the International Fine Arts Council's Gold Medal of Honor for "dedicated service to American Art." The award symbolizes the real reason for the attack on communism in the arts which was the American Modernist-Traditionalist Controversy that took place in America in the 1950s.
He was kind of a dick.