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Jackson Pollock: great artist or flame?

Anyone can throw paint on a canvas. A five year old could do...
Racy church building faggotry
  02/07/12
Typical Jackson Pollock painting: http://www.ibiblio.org/...
Racy church building faggotry
  02/07/12
that's pretty dope
khaki affirmative action
  02/07/12
he painted in like the 40s dood, most people had never even ...
Frum Useless National Security Agency Area
  02/07/12
...
Bill Richmond
  05/03/26
great cuzzz his art broke the bonds of figurative art, relea...
Carmine spot gunner
  02/07/12
LOL @ throwing random colors at a canvas and calling it figu...
Racy church building faggotry
  02/07/12
dcpoast can go fuck the wrong end of a tiger shark, but lol ...
Frum Useless National Security Agency Area
  02/07/12
u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity
Carmine spot gunner
  02/07/12
actually i'm just expressing my highly informed opinion that...
Frum Useless National Security Agency Area
  02/07/12
ur beautiful when ur hungry
Carmine spot gunner
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism is about a new birth of freedom in se...
Carmine spot gunner
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism and nearly all avant garde art is act...
Exhilarant hospital cumskin
  02/07/12
Um, that hasn't been true for like 50 years.
Silver impressive fanboi market
  02/07/12
(no homily)
vigorous theater water buffalo
  02/07/12
Pollock could also have painted really well in a more tradit...
Sticky curious karate
  02/07/12
Sounds like a hack to me. I could paint like Pollock. The gu...
Racy church building faggotry
  02/07/12
Jackson Pollock heralded the death of painting, all that's l...
Carmine spot gunner
  06/20/22
Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.
Exhilarant hospital cumskin
  02/07/12
EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual
Racy church building faggotry
  02/07/12
I didn't say he was...his art is. Academics took over the ...
Exhilarant hospital cumskin
  02/07/12
Ok. How would you interpret this painting? http://thefron...
Racy church building faggotry
  02/07/12
I'm not an art critic. I'm a critic of art critics.
Exhilarant hospital cumskin
  02/07/12
lol MagicEye noob
mustard concupiscible voyeur
  02/07/12
Well that was uninformed
multi-colored station organic girlfriend
  02/07/12
basically modern libs think intellectualism means whatever w...
Shaky bat-shit-crazy field
  02/07/12
wow cr
Beta sooty institution
  02/07/12
he took a line of thinking to its logical extreme, and ended...
slap-happy trailer park wagecucks
  02/07/12
TITCR
Racy church building faggotry
  02/07/12
weve moved on: http://i.imgur.com/P8OAw.jpg now thats a...
Tripping plaza
  02/07/12
conceptual art, truly, is art for the masses, if they could ...
Carmine spot gunner
  02/07/12
banksy is the only artist who engages real people
Tripping plaza
  02/07/12
I think Pollock paintings are beautiful. They're a sight to ...
sapphire ladyboy point
  02/07/12
It's a very spiritual place and you definitely should.
Exhilarant hospital cumskin
  02/07/12
LOL, just LOL.
Racy church building faggotry
  02/07/12
If you choose to view art only in terms of its achievement a...
sapphire ladyboy point
  02/07/12
Separate the art from the artist = that looks like it was dr...
Twinkling bull headed school cafeteria mediation
  02/07/12
Rothkos are really impressive in person -- images like that ...
Silver impressive fanboi market
  02/07/12
Agree it's much different, many of these paintings are huge ...
Razzmatazz Native Feces
  02/07/12
I absolutely love Rothko too. What do you think about Mothe...
sick obsidian brunch
  06/20/22
great, but the post-war intellectual milieu from which his i...
Fishy electric stag film
  02/07/12
If it doesn't have a shiny baby Jebus I ain't lookin'
hairraiser pungent locus
  02/07/12
the credited summary if u mad about this: http://www.tom...
Tripping plaza
  02/07/12
somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash
Twinkling bull headed school cafeteria mediation
  02/07/12
Now THIS is painting: http://www.paintinghere.com/UploadPic...
Silver impressive fanboi market
  02/07/12
Oh What a Painter!
vigorous theater water buffalo
  02/07/12
IMO getting MAD in this day and age about Jackson fucking Po...
Silver impressive fanboi market
  02/07/12
one of the more credited poasts i've seen in 10 years on thi...
vigorous theater water buffalo
  02/07/12
link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?
sick obsidian brunch
  06/20/22
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/02/29/arts/00newartist1...
shivering hyperactive hall
  06/20/22
lol. I was being serious
sick obsidian brunch
  06/20/22
big fan
Bistre meetinghouse half-breed
  06/20/22
...
Rose business firm community account
  06/20/22
movie on him on netflix
Comical Burgundy Mental Disorder
  02/07/12
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-...
Fragrant Pit Nibblets
  06/20/22
Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?
Abusive center turdskin
  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: Racy church building faggotry

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=2Reputation#19916184)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:05 PM
Author: Racy church building faggotry

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=2Reputation#19916191)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: khaki affirmative action

that's pretty dope

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:07 PM
Author: Frum Useless National Security Agency Area

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=2Reputation#19916201)



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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:07 PM
Author: Carmine spot gunner

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=2Reputation#19916202)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:08 PM
Author: Racy church building faggotry

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=2Reputation#19916206)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:11 PM
Author: Frum Useless National Security Agency Area

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=2Reputation#19916216)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:14 PM
Author: Carmine spot gunner

u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:24 PM
Author: Frum Useless National Security Agency Area

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=2Reputation#19916279)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:26 PM
Author: Carmine spot gunner

ur beautiful when ur hungry

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: Carmine spot gunner

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=2Reputation#19916221)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:18 PM
Author: Exhilarant hospital cumskin

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=2Reputation#19916252)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:09 PM
Author: Silver impressive fanboi market

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:48 PM
Author: vigorous theater water buffalo

(no homily)

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:14 PM
Author: Sticky curious karate

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=2Reputation#19916234)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:15 PM
Author: Racy church building faggotry

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=2Reputation#19916239)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: Carmine spot gunner

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=2Reputation#44713874)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:10 PM
Author: Exhilarant hospital cumskin

Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: Racy church building faggotry

EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:15 PM
Author: Exhilarant hospital cumskin

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=2Reputation#19916242)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:17 PM
Author: Racy church building faggotry

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=2Reputation#19916249)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: Exhilarant hospital cumskin

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:30 PM
Author: mustard concupiscible voyeur

lol MagicEye noob

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: multi-colored station organic girlfriend

Well that was uninformed

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:17 PM
Author: Shaky bat-shit-crazy field

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=2Reputation#19916248)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:47 PM
Author: Beta sooty institution

wow cr

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: slap-happy trailer park wagecucks

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=2Reputation#19916256)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:20 PM
Author: Racy church building faggotry

TITCR

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:21 PM
Author: Tripping plaza

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

now thats art

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:24 PM
Author: Carmine spot gunner

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:46 PM
Author: Tripping plaza

banksy is the only artist who engages real people

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:30 PM
Author: sapphire ladyboy point

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=2Reputation#19916298)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:31 PM
Author: Exhilarant hospital cumskin

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:34 PM
Author: Racy church building faggotry

LOL, just LOL.

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:41 PM
Author: sapphire ladyboy point

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=2Reputation#19916344)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:44 PM
Author: Twinkling bull headed school cafeteria mediation

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=2Reputation#19919110)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:06 PM
Author: Silver impressive fanboi market

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=2Reputation#19919331)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:11 PM
Author: Razzmatazz Native Feces

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=2Reputation#19919353)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:00 PM
Author: sick obsidian brunch

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=2Reputation#44713666)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:41 PM
Author: Fishy electric stag film

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=2Reputation#19919089)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:44 PM
Author: hairraiser pungent locus

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:46 PM
Author: Tripping plaza

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=2Reputation#19919139)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:49 PM
Author: Twinkling bull headed school cafeteria mediation

somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:07 PM
Author: Silver impressive fanboi market

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=2Reputation#19919333)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:42 PM
Author: vigorous theater water buffalo

Oh What a Painter!

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:12 PM
Author: Silver impressive fanboi market

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=2Reputation#19919361)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:43 PM
Author: vigorous theater water buffalo

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=2Reputation#19919600)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:03 PM
Author: sick obsidian brunch

link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:07 PM
Author: shivering hyperactive hall

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

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:41 PM
Author: sick obsidian brunch

lol. I was being serious

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: Bistre meetinghouse half-breed

big fan

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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: Rose business firm community account



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:13 PM
Author: Comical Burgundy Mental Disorder

movie on him on netflix

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 3:23 PM
Author: Fragrant Pit Nibblets

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=2Reputation#44713016)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:48 PM
Author: Abusive center turdskin

Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?

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

cia stooge

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