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Jackson Pollock: great artist or flame?

Anyone can throw paint on a canvas. A five year old could do...
well-lubricated dopamine stage
  02/07/12
Typical Jackson Pollock painting: http://www.ibiblio.org/...
well-lubricated dopamine stage
  02/07/12
that's pretty dope
Maize base
  02/07/12
he painted in like the 40s dood, most people had never even ...
Wine corner
  02/07/12
...
Bill Richmond
  05/03/26
great cuzzz his art broke the bonds of figurative art, relea...
Autistic Provocative Institution
  02/07/12
LOL @ throwing random colors at a canvas and calling it figu...
well-lubricated dopamine stage
  02/07/12
dcpoast can go fuck the wrong end of a tiger shark, but lol ...
Wine corner
  02/07/12
u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity
Autistic Provocative Institution
  02/07/12
actually i'm just expressing my highly informed opinion that...
Wine corner
  02/07/12
ur beautiful when ur hungry
Autistic Provocative Institution
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism is about a new birth of freedom in se...
Autistic Provocative Institution
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism and nearly all avant garde art is act...
vermilion glittery office
  02/07/12
Um, that hasn't been true for like 50 years.
Dashing site
  02/07/12
(no homily)
lascivious cordovan sandwich
  02/07/12
Pollock could also have painted really well in a more tradit...
Demanding Arousing Cuckold Jap
  02/07/12
Sounds like a hack to me. I could paint like Pollock. The gu...
well-lubricated dopamine stage
  02/07/12
Jackson Pollock heralded the death of painting, all that's l...
Autistic Provocative Institution
  06/20/22
Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.
vermilion glittery office
  02/07/12
EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual
well-lubricated dopamine stage
  02/07/12
I didn't say he was...his art is. Academics took over the ...
vermilion glittery office
  02/07/12
Ok. How would you interpret this painting? http://thefron...
well-lubricated dopamine stage
  02/07/12
I'm not an art critic. I'm a critic of art critics.
vermilion glittery office
  02/07/12
lol MagicEye noob
Garnet razzmatazz corn cake ape
  02/07/12
Well that was uninformed
Coral chest-beating travel guidebook
  02/07/12
basically modern libs think intellectualism means whatever w...
dull sweet tailpipe marketing idea
  02/07/12
wow cr
Talking excitant wagecucks bawdyhouse
  02/07/12
he took a line of thinking to its logical extreme, and ended...
tripping meetinghouse gay wizard
  02/07/12
TITCR
well-lubricated dopamine stage
  02/07/12
weve moved on: http://i.imgur.com/P8OAw.jpg now thats a...
Ungodly den water buffalo
  02/07/12
conceptual art, truly, is art for the masses, if they could ...
Autistic Provocative Institution
  02/07/12
banksy is the only artist who engages real people
Ungodly den water buffalo
  02/07/12
I think Pollock paintings are beautiful. They're a sight to ...
Light place of business
  02/07/12
It's a very spiritual place and you definitely should.
vermilion glittery office
  02/07/12
LOL, just LOL.
well-lubricated dopamine stage
  02/07/12
If you choose to view art only in terms of its achievement a...
Light place of business
  02/07/12
Separate the art from the artist = that looks like it was dr...
peach drunken ceo
  02/07/12
Rothkos are really impressive in person -- images like that ...
Dashing site
  02/07/12
Agree it's much different, many of these paintings are huge ...
Laughsome mauve orchestra pit mexican
  02/07/12
I absolutely love Rothko too. What do you think about Mothe...
thriller international law enforcement agency church
  06/20/22
great, but the post-war intellectual milieu from which his i...
Alcoholic Fanboi
  02/07/12
If it doesn't have a shiny baby Jebus I ain't lookin'
Chartreuse Cracking Foreskin
  02/07/12
the credited summary if u mad about this: http://www.tom...
Ungodly den water buffalo
  02/07/12
somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash
peach drunken ceo
  02/07/12
Now THIS is painting: http://www.paintinghere.com/UploadPic...
Dashing site
  02/07/12
Oh What a Painter!
lascivious cordovan sandwich
  02/07/12
IMO getting MAD in this day and age about Jackson fucking Po...
Dashing site
  02/07/12
one of the more credited poasts i've seen in 10 years on thi...
lascivious cordovan sandwich
  02/07/12
link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?
thriller international law enforcement agency church
  06/20/22
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/02/29/arts/00newartist1...
jade dysfunction
  06/20/22
lol. I was being serious
thriller international law enforcement agency church
  06/20/22
big fan
Curious Confused Factory Reset Button Preventive Strike
  06/20/22
...
marvelous center
  06/20/22
movie on him on netflix
soul-stirring affirmative action goyim
  02/07/12
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-...
Exhilarant jewess
  06/20/22
Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?
unholy violet brunch
  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: well-lubricated dopamine stage

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=2id.#19916184)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:05 PM
Author: well-lubricated dopamine stage

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=2id.#19916191)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: Maize base

that's pretty dope

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:07 PM
Author: Wine corner

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=2id.#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=2id.#49862225)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:07 PM
Author: Autistic Provocative Institution

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=2id.#19916202)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:08 PM
Author: well-lubricated dopamine stage

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=2id.#19916206)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:11 PM
Author: Wine corner

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=2id.#19916216)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:14 PM
Author: Autistic Provocative Institution

u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:24 PM
Author: Wine corner

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=2id.#19916279)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:26 PM
Author: Autistic Provocative Institution

ur beautiful when ur hungry

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: Autistic Provocative Institution

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=2id.#19916221)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:18 PM
Author: vermilion glittery office

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=2id.#19916252)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:09 PM
Author: Dashing site

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:48 PM
Author: lascivious cordovan sandwich

(no homily)

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:14 PM
Author: Demanding Arousing Cuckold Jap

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=2id.#19916234)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:15 PM
Author: well-lubricated dopamine stage

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=2id.#19916239)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: Autistic Provocative Institution

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=2id.#44713874)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:10 PM
Author: vermilion glittery office

Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: well-lubricated dopamine stage

EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:15 PM
Author: vermilion glittery office

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=2id.#19916242)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:17 PM
Author: well-lubricated dopamine stage

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=2id.#19916249)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: vermilion glittery office

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:30 PM
Author: Garnet razzmatazz corn cake ape

lol MagicEye noob

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: Coral chest-beating travel guidebook

Well that was uninformed

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:17 PM
Author: dull sweet tailpipe marketing idea

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=2id.#19916248)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:47 PM
Author: Talking excitant wagecucks bawdyhouse

wow cr

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: tripping meetinghouse gay wizard

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=2id.#19916256)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:20 PM
Author: well-lubricated dopamine stage

TITCR

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:21 PM
Author: Ungodly den water buffalo

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

now thats art

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:24 PM
Author: Autistic Provocative Institution

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:46 PM
Author: Ungodly den water buffalo

banksy is the only artist who engages real people

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:30 PM
Author: Light place of business

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=2id.#19916298)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:31 PM
Author: vermilion glittery office

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:34 PM
Author: well-lubricated dopamine stage

LOL, just LOL.

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:41 PM
Author: Light place of business

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=2id.#19916344)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:44 PM
Author: peach drunken ceo

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=2id.#19919110)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:06 PM
Author: Dashing site

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=2id.#19919331)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:11 PM
Author: Laughsome mauve orchestra pit mexican

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=2id.#19919353)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:00 PM
Author: thriller international law enforcement agency church

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=2id.#44713666)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:41 PM
Author: Alcoholic Fanboi

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=2id.#19919089)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:44 PM
Author: Chartreuse Cracking Foreskin

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:46 PM
Author: Ungodly den water buffalo

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=2id.#19919139)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:49 PM
Author: peach drunken ceo

somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:07 PM
Author: Dashing site

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=2id.#19919333)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:42 PM
Author: lascivious cordovan sandwich

Oh What a Painter!

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:12 PM
Author: Dashing site

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=2id.#19919361)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:43 PM
Author: lascivious cordovan sandwich

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=2id.#19919600)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:03 PM
Author: thriller international law enforcement agency church

link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:07 PM
Author: jade dysfunction

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

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:41 PM
Author: thriller international law enforcement agency church

lol. I was being serious

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: Curious Confused Factory Reset Button Preventive Strike

big fan

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: marvelous center



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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:13 PM
Author: soul-stirring affirmative action goyim

movie on him on netflix

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 3:23 PM
Author: Exhilarant jewess

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=2id.#44713016)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:48 PM
Author: unholy violet brunch

Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?

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