The period that followed the destruction and demise of World War II did not lead to a truce. Although it never escalated into a major armed conflict, the Cold War permeated everyday life with tension and uncertainty. Tensions between the two conflicting superpowers, the capitalist United States and the communist USSR, can be read in all areas of public and private life at the time. Interesting changes took place in the sphere of culture and art at that time. From the very beginning of the Cold War, culture has been recognized as a means by which a certain ideology can approach the masses with the aim of spreading its influence. Cultural influences during the Cold War are most often considered through the dichotomies of American abstraction and Soviet Social Realism. Precise dichotomies can be read in part in the early years of the Cold War in the United States, which pursued a clear anti-communist policy, and in the USSR. who proclaimed the doctrine of Social Realism. However, in other countries of the world, where the United States and the Soviet Union tried in different ways to expand their dominance, cultural influences were hybrid. As a result, interesting cultural and artistic amalgams were created in Europe, which had its own centuries-old cultural tradition and which in the post-war period was torn between Eastern and Western influences. Unique artistic movements, as a reaction to the reality of the post-war period, were also created in Asia, South America and Africa. Taking into account the artistic production of different countries of the world during the early Cold War, the aim is to point out the importance of culture in the ideological conflict that marked the time after the Second World War.