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Jackson Pollock: great artist or flame?

Anyone can throw paint on a canvas. A five year old could do...
Fluffy people who are hurt brunch
  02/07/12
Typical Jackson Pollock painting: http://www.ibiblio.org/...
Fluffy people who are hurt brunch
  02/07/12
that's pretty dope
supple boltzmann
  02/07/12
he painted in like the 40s dood, most people had never even ...
Galvanic senate
  02/07/12
...
Bill Richmond
  05/03/26
great cuzzz his art broke the bonds of figurative art, relea...
flickering location legal warrant
  02/07/12
LOL @ throwing random colors at a canvas and calling it figu...
Fluffy people who are hurt brunch
  02/07/12
dcpoast can go fuck the wrong end of a tiger shark, but lol ...
Galvanic senate
  02/07/12
u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity
flickering location legal warrant
  02/07/12
actually i'm just expressing my highly informed opinion that...
Galvanic senate
  02/07/12
ur beautiful when ur hungry
flickering location legal warrant
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism is about a new birth of freedom in se...
flickering location legal warrant
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism and nearly all avant garde art is act...
Buck-toothed judgmental library
  02/07/12
Um, that hasn't been true for like 50 years.
swollen lascivious indian lodge persian
  02/07/12
(no homily)
floppy gaping
  02/07/12
Pollock could also have painted really well in a more tradit...
azure temple fortuitous meteor
  02/07/12
Sounds like a hack to me. I could paint like Pollock. The gu...
Fluffy people who are hurt brunch
  02/07/12
Jackson Pollock heralded the death of painting, all that's l...
flickering location legal warrant
  06/20/22
Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.
Buck-toothed judgmental library
  02/07/12
EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual
Fluffy people who are hurt brunch
  02/07/12
I didn't say he was...his art is. Academics took over the ...
Buck-toothed judgmental library
  02/07/12
Ok. How would you interpret this painting? http://thefron...
Fluffy people who are hurt brunch
  02/07/12
I'm not an art critic. I'm a critic of art critics.
Buck-toothed judgmental library
  02/07/12
lol MagicEye noob
Lavender hell trump supporter
  02/07/12
Well that was uninformed
Chartreuse narrow-minded tanning salon
  02/07/12
basically modern libs think intellectualism means whatever w...
Impertinent home famous landscape painting
  02/07/12
wow cr
free-loading impressive crackhouse sound barrier
  02/07/12
he took a line of thinking to its logical extreme, and ended...
claret marketing idea alpha
  02/07/12
TITCR
Fluffy people who are hurt brunch
  02/07/12
weve moved on: http://i.imgur.com/P8OAw.jpg now thats a...
laughsome massive yarmulke
  02/07/12
conceptual art, truly, is art for the masses, if they could ...
flickering location legal warrant
  02/07/12
banksy is the only artist who engages real people
laughsome massive yarmulke
  02/07/12
I think Pollock paintings are beautiful. They're a sight to ...
provocative locale
  02/07/12
It's a very spiritual place and you definitely should.
Buck-toothed judgmental library
  02/07/12
LOL, just LOL.
Fluffy people who are hurt brunch
  02/07/12
If you choose to view art only in terms of its achievement a...
provocative locale
  02/07/12
Separate the art from the artist = that looks like it was dr...
Garnet Fragrant Cuck Giraffe
  02/07/12
Rothkos are really impressive in person -- images like that ...
swollen lascivious indian lodge persian
  02/07/12
Agree it's much different, many of these paintings are huge ...
Pearl cerebral hunting ground stage
  02/07/12
I absolutely love Rothko too. What do you think about Mothe...
apoplectic orchid windowlicker
  06/20/22
great, but the post-war intellectual milieu from which his i...
poppy national security agency den
  02/07/12
If it doesn't have a shiny baby Jebus I ain't lookin'
Vibrant therapy site
  02/07/12
the credited summary if u mad about this: http://www.tom...
laughsome massive yarmulke
  02/07/12
somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash
Garnet Fragrant Cuck Giraffe
  02/07/12
Now THIS is painting: http://www.paintinghere.com/UploadPic...
swollen lascivious indian lodge persian
  02/07/12
Oh What a Painter!
floppy gaping
  02/07/12
IMO getting MAD in this day and age about Jackson fucking Po...
swollen lascivious indian lodge persian
  02/07/12
one of the more credited poasts i've seen in 10 years on thi...
floppy gaping
  02/07/12
link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?
apoplectic orchid windowlicker
  06/20/22
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/02/29/arts/00newartist1...
shivering range
  06/20/22
lol. I was being serious
apoplectic orchid windowlicker
  06/20/22
big fan
comical parlor juggernaut
  06/20/22
...
Indecent Fiercely-loyal Box Office Son Of Senegal
  06/20/22
movie on him on netflix
startled citrine hall indirect expression
  02/07/12
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-...
multi-colored church building faggotry
  06/20/22
Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?
trip office
  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: Fluffy people who are hurt brunch

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: Fluffy people who are hurt brunch

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: supple boltzmann

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: Galvanic senate

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: flickering location legal warrant

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: Fluffy people who are hurt brunch

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: Galvanic senate

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: flickering location legal warrant

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: Galvanic senate

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: flickering location legal warrant

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: flickering location legal warrant

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: Buck-toothed judgmental library

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: swollen lascivious indian lodge persian

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: floppy gaping

(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: azure temple fortuitous meteor

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: Fluffy people who are hurt brunch

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: flickering location legal warrant

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: Buck-toothed judgmental library

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: Fluffy people who are hurt brunch

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: Buck-toothed judgmental library

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: Fluffy people who are hurt brunch

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: Buck-toothed judgmental library

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: Lavender hell trump supporter

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: Chartreuse narrow-minded tanning salon

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: Impertinent home famous landscape painting

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: free-loading impressive crackhouse sound barrier

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: claret marketing idea alpha

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: Fluffy people who are hurt brunch

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: laughsome massive yarmulke

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: flickering location legal warrant

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: laughsome massive yarmulke

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: provocative locale

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: Buck-toothed judgmental library

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: Fluffy people who are hurt brunch

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: provocative locale

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: Garnet Fragrant Cuck Giraffe

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: swollen lascivious indian lodge persian

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: Pearl cerebral hunting ground stage

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: apoplectic orchid windowlicker

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: poppy national security agency den

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: Vibrant therapy site

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: laughsome massive yarmulke

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: Garnet Fragrant Cuck Giraffe

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: swollen lascivious indian lodge persian

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: floppy gaping

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: swollen lascivious indian lodge persian

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: floppy gaping

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: apoplectic orchid windowlicker

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: shivering range

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: apoplectic orchid windowlicker

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: comical parlor juggernaut

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: Indecent Fiercely-loyal Box Office Son Of Senegal



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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:13 PM
Author: startled citrine hall indirect expression

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: multi-colored church building faggotry

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: trip office

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)