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Jackson Pollock: great artist or flame?

Anyone can throw paint on a canvas. A five year old could do...
Vibrant fuchsia sanctuary mediation
  02/07/12
Typical Jackson Pollock painting: http://www.ibiblio.org/...
Vibrant fuchsia sanctuary mediation
  02/07/12
that's pretty dope
drab incel
  02/07/12
he painted in like the 40s dood, most people had never even ...
Erotic saffron crotch parlour
  02/07/12
...
Bill Richmond
  05/03/26
great cuzzz his art broke the bonds of figurative art, relea...
bonkers flickering hall
  02/07/12
LOL @ throwing random colors at a canvas and calling it figu...
Vibrant fuchsia sanctuary mediation
  02/07/12
dcpoast can go fuck the wrong end of a tiger shark, but lol ...
Erotic saffron crotch parlour
  02/07/12
u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity
bonkers flickering hall
  02/07/12
actually i'm just expressing my highly informed opinion that...
Erotic saffron crotch parlour
  02/07/12
ur beautiful when ur hungry
bonkers flickering hall
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism is about a new birth of freedom in se...
bonkers flickering hall
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism and nearly all avant garde art is act...
impertinent cuckold shitlib
  02/07/12
Um, that hasn't been true for like 50 years.
Ungodly Corn Cake Nursing Home
  02/07/12
(no homily)
Red dingle berry
  02/07/12
Pollock could also have painted really well in a more tradit...
Poppy Provocative Property
  02/07/12
Sounds like a hack to me. I could paint like Pollock. The gu...
Vibrant fuchsia sanctuary mediation
  02/07/12
Jackson Pollock heralded the death of painting, all that's l...
bonkers flickering hall
  06/20/22
Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.
impertinent cuckold shitlib
  02/07/12
EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual
Vibrant fuchsia sanctuary mediation
  02/07/12
I didn't say he was...his art is. Academics took over the ...
impertinent cuckold shitlib
  02/07/12
Ok. How would you interpret this painting? http://thefron...
Vibrant fuchsia sanctuary mediation
  02/07/12
I'm not an art critic. I'm a critic of art critics.
impertinent cuckold shitlib
  02/07/12
lol MagicEye noob
glassy cruel-hearted pervert university
  02/07/12
Well that was uninformed
zombie-like hospital
  02/07/12
basically modern libs think intellectualism means whatever w...
Odious center sandwich
  02/07/12
wow cr
Iridescent Insane Whorehouse Giraffe
  02/07/12
he took a line of thinking to its logical extreme, and ended...
Stubborn bateful chad
  02/07/12
TITCR
Vibrant fuchsia sanctuary mediation
  02/07/12
weve moved on: http://i.imgur.com/P8OAw.jpg now thats a...
Translucent temple
  02/07/12
conceptual art, truly, is art for the masses, if they could ...
bonkers flickering hall
  02/07/12
banksy is the only artist who engages real people
Translucent temple
  02/07/12
I think Pollock paintings are beautiful. They're a sight to ...
peach field
  02/07/12
It's a very spiritual place and you definitely should.
impertinent cuckold shitlib
  02/07/12
LOL, just LOL.
Vibrant fuchsia sanctuary mediation
  02/07/12
If you choose to view art only in terms of its achievement a...
peach field
  02/07/12
Separate the art from the artist = that looks like it was dr...
Deep Kitty
  02/07/12
Rothkos are really impressive in person -- images like that ...
Ungodly Corn Cake Nursing Home
  02/07/12
Agree it's much different, many of these paintings are huge ...
Blathering Supple Dopamine Casino
  02/07/12
I absolutely love Rothko too. What do you think about Mothe...
Excitant mischievous library legend
  06/20/22
great, but the post-war intellectual milieu from which his i...
Rusted Thriller Box Office Love Of Her Life
  02/07/12
If it doesn't have a shiny baby Jebus I ain't lookin'
misanthropic lavender people who are hurt
  02/07/12
the credited summary if u mad about this: http://www.tom...
Translucent temple
  02/07/12
somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash
Deep Kitty
  02/07/12
Now THIS is painting: http://www.paintinghere.com/UploadPic...
Ungodly Corn Cake Nursing Home
  02/07/12
Oh What a Painter!
Red dingle berry
  02/07/12
IMO getting MAD in this day and age about Jackson fucking Po...
Ungodly Corn Cake Nursing Home
  02/07/12
one of the more credited poasts i've seen in 10 years on thi...
Red dingle berry
  02/07/12
link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?
Excitant mischievous library legend
  06/20/22
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/02/29/arts/00newartist1...
Pearly hairraiser haunted graveyard pit
  06/20/22
lol. I was being serious
Excitant mischievous library legend
  06/20/22
big fan
diverse hominid digit ratio
  06/20/22
...
Territorial Nowag
  06/20/22
movie on him on netflix
Khaki roast beef meetinghouse
  02/07/12
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-...
harsh histrionic public bath
  06/20/22
Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?
onyx multi-colored puppy macaca
  06/20/22
cia stooge
i gave my cousin head
  05/03/26


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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:04 PM
Author: Vibrant fuchsia sanctuary mediation

Anyone can throw paint on a canvas. A five year old could do that, yet he is revered as one of the greatest artists of all time. Why?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19916184)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:05 PM
Author: Vibrant fuchsia sanctuary mediation

Typical Jackson Pollock painting:

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/pollock/pollock.number-8.jpg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19916191)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: drab incel

that's pretty dope

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19916224)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:07 PM
Author: Erotic saffron crotch parlour

he painted in like the 40s dood, most people had never even heard the word fuck said out loud before

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19916201)



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Date: May 3rd, 2026 5:30 PM
Author: Bill Richmond ((zurich is stained))



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#49862225)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:07 PM
Author: bonkers flickering hall

great cuzzz his art broke the bonds of figurative art, releasing the awesome energy of creation

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19916202)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:08 PM
Author: Vibrant fuchsia sanctuary mediation

LOL @ throwing random colors at a canvas and calling it figurative art. Rubens is rolling in his grave.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19916206)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:11 PM
Author: Erotic saffron crotch parlour

dcpoast can go fuck the wrong end of a tiger shark, but lol @ you PPL WHO CAN READ SENTENCES ARE ROLLING IN THEY'RE GRAVES

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19916216)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:14 PM
Author: bonkers flickering hall

u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19916235)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:24 PM
Author: Erotic saffron crotch parlour

actually i'm just expressing my highly informed opinion that you deserve to have your ENTIRE junk - cock and both balls - bitten off by an animal from the sea. ymmv.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19916279)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:26 PM
Author: bonkers flickering hall

ur beautiful when ur hungry

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19916285)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: bonkers flickering hall

abstract expressionism is about a new birth of freedom in seeing the world, pardon the homily

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19916221)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:18 PM
Author: impertinent cuckold shitlib

abstract expressionism and nearly all avant garde art is actually quite confining. If you paint to please the eye or to tell a story in a direct way or to be clever but have recognizable depictions your art is immediately deemed unintellectual and therefore not worthy of being taken seriously but the art world.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19916252)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:09 PM
Author: Ungodly Corn Cake Nursing Home

Um, that hasn't been true for like 50 years.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19919346)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:48 PM
Author: Red dingle berry

(no homily)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19919157)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:14 PM
Author: Poppy Provocative Property

Pollock could also have painted really well in a more traditional style. guy had talent. he chose to express himself this way

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19916234)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:15 PM
Author: Vibrant fuchsia sanctuary mediation

Sounds like a hack to me. I could paint like Pollock. The guy was obviously having a laugh throwing random bollocks on a canvas.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19916239)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: bonkers flickering hall

Jackson Pollock heralded the death of painting, all that's left is E=mc^2

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#44713874)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:10 PM
Author: impertinent cuckold shitlib

Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19916214)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: Vibrant fuchsia sanctuary mediation

EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19916225)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:15 PM
Author: impertinent cuckold shitlib

I didn't say he was...his art is.

Academics took over the artworld making ideas more important than the art itself. It became tired and old and very out of date to paint something that is aesthetically pleasing (or, gasp, realistic)...art became more about theory and the idea behind the work than the art itself

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19916242)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:17 PM
Author: Vibrant fuchsia sanctuary mediation

Ok. How would you interpret this painting?

http://thefrontblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/jackson-pollock1.jpg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19916249)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: impertinent cuckold shitlib

I'm not an art critic. I'm a critic of art critics.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19916258)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:30 PM
Author: glassy cruel-hearted pervert university

lol MagicEye noob

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19916297)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: zombie-like hospital

Well that was uninformed

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19916259)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:17 PM
Author: Odious center sandwich

basically modern libs think intellectualism means whatever will make you look like you "get it" while making middle class Christians go "wtf is the point." content is irrelevant.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19916248)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:47 PM
Author: Iridescent Insane Whorehouse Giraffe

wow cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19919144)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: Stubborn bateful chad

he took a line of thinking to its logical extreme, and ended up creating trite and obvious art in the process. sort of like Salvador Dali.

it's art that had inevitably to be done by someone, but it's not very good. Pollock also seemed retarded .

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19916256)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:20 PM
Author: Vibrant fuchsia sanctuary mediation

TITCR

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19916263)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:21 PM
Author: Translucent temple

weve moved on: http://i.imgur.com/P8OAw.jpg

now thats art

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19916267)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:24 PM
Author: bonkers flickering hall

conceptual art, truly, is art for the masses, if they could only see

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19916280)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:46 PM
Author: Translucent temple

banksy is the only artist who engages real people

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19919123)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:30 PM
Author: peach field

I think Pollock paintings are beautiful. They're a sight to behold in person.

The same for Rothko:

http://i.imgur.com/cSYRI.jpg

I would love to go to the Rothko Chapel if i'm ever in Houston.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19916298)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:31 PM
Author: impertinent cuckold shitlib

It's a very spiritual place and you definitely should.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19916301)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:34 PM
Author: Vibrant fuchsia sanctuary mediation

LOL, just LOL.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19916311)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:41 PM
Author: peach field

If you choose to view art only in terms of its achievement and the ability behind it, you fail at a certain level of appreciation. As the pumo above implies, I think you should separate the art and the artist when applying criticism.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19916344)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:44 PM
Author: Deep Kitty

Separate the art from the artist = that looks like it was drawn by my 4 year old

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19919110)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:06 PM
Author: Ungodly Corn Cake Nursing Home

Rothkos are really impressive in person -- images like that don't do them justice at all.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19919331)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:11 PM
Author: Blathering Supple Dopamine Casino

Agree it's much different, many of these paintings are huge irl, brilliant use of space and color

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19919353)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:00 PM
Author: Excitant mischievous library legend

I absolutely love Rothko too. What do you think about Motherwell's Spanish elegies?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#44713666)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:41 PM
Author: Rusted Thriller Box Office Love Of Her Life

great, but the post-war intellectual milieu from which his ideas came seems increasingly irrelevant now. We're not caught up in the teleological compulsion towards 'purer' representation.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19919089)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:44 PM
Author: misanthropic lavender people who are hurt

If it doesn't have a shiny baby Jebus I ain't lookin'

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19919114)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:46 PM
Author: Translucent temple

the credited summary if u mad about this:

http://www.tomwolfe.com/PaintedWord.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19919139)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:49 PM
Author: Deep Kitty

somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19919172)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:07 PM
Author: Ungodly Corn Cake Nursing Home

Now THIS is painting:

http://www.paintinghere.com/UploadPic/Thomas%20Kinkade/big/NASCAR%20THUNDER.JPG

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19919333)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:42 PM
Author: Red dingle berry

Oh What a Painter!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19919595)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:12 PM
Author: Ungodly Corn Cake Nursing Home

IMO getting MAD in this day and age about Jackson fucking Pollock is just trite and stick-in-the-mud. Abstract expressionism helped break things open in art, but people don't really make that much out of it anymore beyond its historical importance. Meanwhile there are all kinds of awesomely awesome contemporary painters doing all kinds of cool stuff that really has nothing to do with splattering paint or shitting on canvass or whatever example conservatards use as angry jerkoff material.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19919361)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:43 PM
Author: Red dingle berry

one of the more credited poasts i've seen in 10 years on this tweetblawg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19919600)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:03 PM
Author: Excitant mischievous library legend

link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#44713680)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:07 PM
Author: Pearly hairraiser haunted graveyard pit

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/02/29/arts/00newartist1/00newartist1-videoSixteenByNineJumbo1600.jpg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#44713691)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:41 PM
Author: Excitant mischievous library legend

lol. I was being serious

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#44713848)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: diverse hominid digit ratio

big fan

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#44713871)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: Territorial Nowag



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#44713879)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:13 PM
Author: Khaki roast beef meetinghouse

movie on him on netflix

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#19919367)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 3:23 PM
Author: harsh histrionic public bath

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#44713016)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:48 PM
Author: onyx multi-colored puppy macaca

Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#44713897)



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Date: May 3rd, 2026 5:30 PM
Author: i gave my cousin head

cia stooge

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2/#49862223)