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Jackson Pollock: great artist or flame?

Anyone can throw paint on a canvas. A five year old could do...
Abusive hilarious heaven
  02/07/12
Typical Jackson Pollock painting: http://www.ibiblio.org/...
Abusive hilarious heaven
  02/07/12
that's pretty dope
sienna anal newt
  02/07/12
he painted in like the 40s dood, most people had never even ...
outnumbered chad stag film
  02/07/12
...
Bill Richmond
  05/03/26
great cuzzz his art broke the bonds of figurative art, relea...
Soul-stirring Genital Piercing
  02/07/12
LOL @ throwing random colors at a canvas and calling it figu...
Abusive hilarious heaven
  02/07/12
dcpoast can go fuck the wrong end of a tiger shark, but lol ...
outnumbered chad stag film
  02/07/12
u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity
Soul-stirring Genital Piercing
  02/07/12
actually i'm just expressing my highly informed opinion that...
outnumbered chad stag film
  02/07/12
ur beautiful when ur hungry
Soul-stirring Genital Piercing
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism is about a new birth of freedom in se...
Soul-stirring Genital Piercing
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism and nearly all avant garde art is act...
big-titted gaped institution
  02/07/12
Um, that hasn't been true for like 50 years.
racy cream international law enforcement agency
  02/07/12
(no homily)
Red garrison
  02/07/12
Pollock could also have painted really well in a more tradit...
Offensive Parlour
  02/07/12
Sounds like a hack to me. I could paint like Pollock. The gu...
Abusive hilarious heaven
  02/07/12
Jackson Pollock heralded the death of painting, all that's l...
Soul-stirring Genital Piercing
  06/20/22
Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.
big-titted gaped institution
  02/07/12
EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual
Abusive hilarious heaven
  02/07/12
I didn't say he was...his art is. Academics took over the ...
big-titted gaped institution
  02/07/12
Ok. How would you interpret this painting? http://thefron...
Abusive hilarious heaven
  02/07/12
I'm not an art critic. I'm a critic of art critics.
big-titted gaped institution
  02/07/12
lol MagicEye noob
disgusting cobalt main people toaster
  02/07/12
Well that was uninformed
Galvanic infuriating headpube crotch
  02/07/12
basically modern libs think intellectualism means whatever w...
bat-shit-crazy elite church
  02/07/12
wow cr
pontificating national
  02/07/12
he took a line of thinking to its logical extreme, and ended...
big alcoholic forum
  02/07/12
TITCR
Abusive hilarious heaven
  02/07/12
weve moved on: http://i.imgur.com/P8OAw.jpg now thats a...
mind-boggling hell ceo
  02/07/12
conceptual art, truly, is art for the masses, if they could ...
Soul-stirring Genital Piercing
  02/07/12
banksy is the only artist who engages real people
mind-boggling hell ceo
  02/07/12
I think Pollock paintings are beautiful. They're a sight to ...
autistic wine personal credit line
  02/07/12
It's a very spiritual place and you definitely should.
big-titted gaped institution
  02/07/12
LOL, just LOL.
Abusive hilarious heaven
  02/07/12
If you choose to view art only in terms of its achievement a...
autistic wine personal credit line
  02/07/12
Separate the art from the artist = that looks like it was dr...
Histrionic Pale Plaza Laser Beams
  02/07/12
Rothkos are really impressive in person -- images like that ...
racy cream international law enforcement agency
  02/07/12
Agree it's much different, many of these paintings are huge ...
Bespoke athletic conference new version
  02/07/12
I absolutely love Rothko too. What do you think about Mothe...
wild property
  06/20/22
great, but the post-war intellectual milieu from which his i...
titillating metal box office place of business
  02/07/12
If it doesn't have a shiny baby Jebus I ain't lookin'
out-of-control theater nibblets
  02/07/12
the credited summary if u mad about this: http://www.tom...
mind-boggling hell ceo
  02/07/12
somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash
Histrionic Pale Plaza Laser Beams
  02/07/12
Now THIS is painting: http://www.paintinghere.com/UploadPic...
racy cream international law enforcement agency
  02/07/12
Oh What a Painter!
Red garrison
  02/07/12
IMO getting MAD in this day and age about Jackson fucking Po...
racy cream international law enforcement agency
  02/07/12
one of the more credited poasts i've seen in 10 years on thi...
Red garrison
  02/07/12
link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?
wild property
  06/20/22
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/02/29/arts/00newartist1...
unhinged aquamarine base
  06/20/22
lol. I was being serious
wild property
  06/20/22
big fan
trip cuck
  06/20/22
...
dark fragrant juggernaut office
  06/20/22
movie on him on netflix
cyan crackhouse boltzmann
  02/07/12
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-...
comical hospital filthpig
  06/20/22
Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?
Amethyst Stimulating Ladyboy
  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: Abusive hilarious heaven

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...id.#19916184)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:05 PM
Author: Abusive hilarious heaven

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...id.#19916191)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: sienna anal newt

that's pretty dope

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:07 PM
Author: outnumbered chad stag film

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...id.#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...id.#49862225)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:07 PM
Author: Soul-stirring Genital Piercing

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...id.#19916202)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:08 PM
Author: Abusive hilarious heaven

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...id.#19916206)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:11 PM
Author: outnumbered chad stag film

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...id.#19916216)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:14 PM
Author: Soul-stirring Genital Piercing

u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:24 PM
Author: outnumbered chad stag film

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...id.#19916279)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:26 PM
Author: Soul-stirring Genital Piercing

ur beautiful when ur hungry

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: Soul-stirring Genital Piercing

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...id.#19916221)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:18 PM
Author: big-titted gaped institution

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...id.#19916252)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:09 PM
Author: racy cream international law enforcement agency

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

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



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

(no homily)

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:14 PM
Author: Offensive Parlour

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...id.#19916234)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:15 PM
Author: Abusive hilarious heaven

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...id.#19916239)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: Soul-stirring Genital Piercing

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...id.#44713874)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:10 PM
Author: big-titted gaped institution

Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: Abusive hilarious heaven

EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:15 PM
Author: big-titted gaped institution

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...id.#19916242)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:17 PM
Author: Abusive hilarious heaven

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...id.#19916249)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: big-titted gaped institution

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...id.#19916258)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:30 PM
Author: disgusting cobalt main people toaster

lol MagicEye noob

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: Galvanic infuriating headpube crotch

Well that was uninformed

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:17 PM
Author: bat-shit-crazy elite church

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...id.#19916248)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:47 PM
Author: pontificating national

wow cr

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: big alcoholic forum

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...id.#19916256)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:20 PM
Author: Abusive hilarious heaven

TITCR

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:21 PM
Author: mind-boggling hell ceo

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

now thats art

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:24 PM
Author: Soul-stirring Genital Piercing

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...id.#19916280)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:46 PM
Author: mind-boggling hell ceo

banksy is the only artist who engages real people

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:30 PM
Author: autistic wine personal credit line

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...id.#19916298)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:31 PM
Author: big-titted gaped institution

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:34 PM
Author: Abusive hilarious heaven

LOL, just LOL.

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:41 PM
Author: autistic wine personal credit line

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...id.#19916344)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:44 PM
Author: Histrionic Pale Plaza Laser Beams

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...id.#19919110)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:06 PM
Author: racy cream international law enforcement agency

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...id.#19919331)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:11 PM
Author: Bespoke athletic conference new version

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...id.#19919353)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:00 PM
Author: wild property

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...id.#44713666)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:41 PM
Author: titillating metal box office place of business

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...id.#19919089)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:44 PM
Author: out-of-control theater nibblets

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...id.#19919114)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:46 PM
Author: mind-boggling hell ceo

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...id.#19919139)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:49 PM
Author: Histrionic Pale Plaza Laser Beams

somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:07 PM
Author: racy cream international law enforcement agency

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...id.#19919333)



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

Oh What a Painter!

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:12 PM
Author: racy cream international law enforcement agency

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...id.#19919361)



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

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...id.#19919600)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:03 PM
Author: wild property

link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:07 PM
Author: unhinged aquamarine base

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...id.#44713691)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:41 PM
Author: wild property

lol. I was being serious

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: trip cuck

big fan

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: dark fragrant juggernaut office



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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:13 PM
Author: cyan crackhouse boltzmann

movie on him on netflix

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 3:23 PM
Author: comical hospital filthpig

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...id.#44713016)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:48 PM
Author: Amethyst Stimulating Ladyboy

Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?

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