Revolutionary Tides

Jon was here over the weekend. We went to see the Revolutionary Tides show at the Cantor Arts Center. It was really amazing. I thought it was interesting how varied cultures even with diametrically opposed political views could coalesce in the visual representation of their ideologies. The Russian posters were the most stunning I thought. For some reason American painting always seems so ordinary and watered down, and mainstream, secular. I wonder if I think that because I actually live in America and the visual vocabulary has become so banal, or if American graphic designers are just inferior?