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Jackson Pollock: great artist or flame?

Anyone can throw paint on a canvas. A five year old could do...
kink-friendly sound barrier tank
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Typical Jackson Pollock painting: http://www.ibiblio.org/...
kink-friendly sound barrier tank
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that's pretty dope
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  02/07/12
he painted in like the 40s dood, most people had never even ...
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  02/07/12
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  05/03/26
great cuzzz his art broke the bonds of figurative art, relea...
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  02/07/12
LOL @ throwing random colors at a canvas and calling it figu...
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dcpoast can go fuck the wrong end of a tiger shark, but lol ...
Flesh principal's office
  02/07/12
u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity
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  02/07/12
actually i'm just expressing my highly informed opinion that...
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abstract expressionism is about a new birth of freedom in se...
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abstract expressionism and nearly all avant garde art is act...
Apoplectic elastic band
  02/07/12
Um, that hasn't been true for like 50 years.
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(no homily)
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  02/07/12
Pollock could also have painted really well in a more tradit...
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  02/07/12
Sounds like a hack to me. I could paint like Pollock. The gu...
kink-friendly sound barrier tank
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Jackson Pollock heralded the death of painting, all that's l...
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  06/20/22
Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.
Apoplectic elastic band
  02/07/12
EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual
kink-friendly sound barrier tank
  02/07/12
I didn't say he was...his art is. Academics took over the ...
Apoplectic elastic band
  02/07/12
Ok. How would you interpret this painting? http://thefron...
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  02/07/12
I'm not an art critic. I'm a critic of art critics.
Apoplectic elastic band
  02/07/12
lol MagicEye noob
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  02/07/12
Well that was uninformed
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  02/07/12
basically modern libs think intellectualism means whatever w...
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he took a line of thinking to its logical extreme, and ended...
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TITCR
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weve moved on: http://i.imgur.com/P8OAw.jpg now thats a...
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  02/07/12
conceptual art, truly, is art for the masses, if they could ...
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  02/07/12
banksy is the only artist who engages real people
Boyish Spot
  02/07/12
I think Pollock paintings are beautiful. They're a sight to ...
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  02/07/12
It's a very spiritual place and you definitely should.
Apoplectic elastic band
  02/07/12
LOL, just LOL.
kink-friendly sound barrier tank
  02/07/12
If you choose to view art only in terms of its achievement a...
Frisky bull headed school cafeteria
  02/07/12
Separate the art from the artist = that looks like it was dr...
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  02/07/12
Rothkos are really impressive in person -- images like that ...
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Agree it's much different, many of these paintings are huge ...
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  02/07/12
I absolutely love Rothko too. What do you think about Mothe...
Diverse shivering temple
  06/20/22
great, but the post-war intellectual milieu from which his i...
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  02/07/12
If it doesn't have a shiny baby Jebus I ain't lookin'
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the credited summary if u mad about this: http://www.tom...
Boyish Spot
  02/07/12
somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash
Mahogany judgmental windowlicker sneaky criminal
  02/07/12
Now THIS is painting: http://www.paintinghere.com/UploadPic...
bearded regret genital piercing
  02/07/12
Oh What a Painter!
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  02/07/12
IMO getting MAD in this day and age about Jackson fucking Po...
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one of the more credited poasts i've seen in 10 years on thi...
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  02/07/12
link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?
Diverse shivering temple
  06/20/22
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/02/29/arts/00newartist1...
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movie on him on netflix
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-...
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Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?
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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:04 PM
Author: kink-friendly sound barrier tank

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=2E#19916184)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:05 PM
Author: kink-friendly sound barrier tank

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=2E#19916191)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: hateful flushed station

that's pretty dope

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:07 PM
Author: Flesh principal's office

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=2E#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=2E#49862225)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:07 PM
Author: Chestnut vivacious bbw halford

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=2E#19916202)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:08 PM
Author: kink-friendly sound barrier tank

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=2E#19916206)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:11 PM
Author: Flesh principal's office

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=2E#19916216)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:14 PM
Author: Chestnut vivacious bbw halford

u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:24 PM
Author: Flesh principal's office

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=2E#19916279)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:26 PM
Author: Chestnut vivacious bbw halford

ur beautiful when ur hungry

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: Chestnut vivacious bbw halford

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=2E#19916221)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:18 PM
Author: Apoplectic elastic band

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=2E#19916252)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:09 PM
Author: bearded regret genital piercing

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:48 PM
Author: misanthropic elite bawdyhouse

(no homily)

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:14 PM
Author: gaped crackhouse gunner

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=2E#19916234)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:15 PM
Author: kink-friendly sound barrier tank

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=2E#19916239)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: Chestnut vivacious bbw halford

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=2E#44713874)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:10 PM
Author: Apoplectic elastic band

Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: kink-friendly sound barrier tank

EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:15 PM
Author: Apoplectic elastic band

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=2E#19916242)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:17 PM
Author: kink-friendly sound barrier tank

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=2E#19916249)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: Apoplectic elastic band

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:30 PM
Author: offensive pit puppy

lol MagicEye noob

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: Curious mischievous electric furnace

Well that was uninformed

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:17 PM
Author: federal titillating nursing home stock car

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=2E#19916248)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:47 PM
Author: fluffy gas station stain

wow cr

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: aphrodisiac shaky telephone 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=2E#19916256)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:20 PM
Author: kink-friendly sound barrier tank

TITCR

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:21 PM
Author: Boyish Spot

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

now thats art

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:24 PM
Author: Chestnut vivacious bbw halford

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:46 PM
Author: Boyish Spot

banksy is the only artist who engages real people

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:30 PM
Author: Frisky bull headed school cafeteria

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=2E#19916298)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:31 PM
Author: Apoplectic elastic band

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:34 PM
Author: kink-friendly sound barrier tank

LOL, just LOL.

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:41 PM
Author: Frisky bull headed school cafeteria

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=2E#19916344)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:44 PM
Author: Mahogany judgmental windowlicker sneaky criminal

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=2E#19919110)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:06 PM
Author: bearded regret genital piercing

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=2E#19919331)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:11 PM
Author: Brilliant up-to-no-good prole

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=2E#19919353)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:00 PM
Author: Diverse shivering temple

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=2E#44713666)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:41 PM
Author: Burgundy multi-billionaire international law enforcement agency

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=2E#19919089)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:44 PM
Author: Lemon bisexual masturbator rigor

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:46 PM
Author: Boyish Spot

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=2E#19919139)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:49 PM
Author: Mahogany judgmental windowlicker sneaky criminal

somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:07 PM
Author: bearded regret genital piercing

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=2E#19919333)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:42 PM
Author: misanthropic elite bawdyhouse

Oh What a Painter!

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:12 PM
Author: bearded regret genital piercing

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=2E#19919361)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:43 PM
Author: misanthropic elite bawdyhouse

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=2E#19919600)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:03 PM
Author: Diverse shivering temple

link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:07 PM
Author: orange black woman

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

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:41 PM
Author: Diverse shivering temple

lol. I was being serious

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: white rehab roast beef

big fan

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: soul-stirring turquoise mad cow disease



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:13 PM
Author: Fragrant Insanely Creepy Weed Whacker Jap

movie on him on netflix

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 3:23 PM
Author: Vigorous Crystalline Famous Landscape Painting University

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=2E#44713016)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:48 PM
Author: haunting doctorate dilemma

Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?

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