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Jackson Pollock: great artist or flame?

Anyone can throw paint on a canvas. A five year old could do...
Laughsome Office
  02/07/12
Typical Jackson Pollock painting: http://www.ibiblio.org/...
Laughsome Office
  02/07/12
that's pretty dope
histrionic disgusting locus
  02/07/12
he painted in like the 40s dood, most people had never even ...
brindle giraffe
  02/07/12
...
Bill Richmond
  05/03/26
great cuzzz his art broke the bonds of figurative art, relea...
Insanely creepy principal's office psychic
  02/07/12
LOL @ throwing random colors at a canvas and calling it figu...
Laughsome Office
  02/07/12
dcpoast can go fuck the wrong end of a tiger shark, but lol ...
brindle giraffe
  02/07/12
u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity
Insanely creepy principal's office psychic
  02/07/12
actually i'm just expressing my highly informed opinion that...
brindle giraffe
  02/07/12
ur beautiful when ur hungry
Insanely creepy principal's office psychic
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism is about a new birth of freedom in se...
Insanely creepy principal's office psychic
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism and nearly all avant garde art is act...
Crimson cuckold
  02/07/12
Um, that hasn't been true for like 50 years.
abnormal racy masturbator fortuitous meteor
  02/07/12
(no homily)
Rose School Cafeteria French Chef
  02/07/12
Pollock could also have painted really well in a more tradit...
Ultramarine titillating center new version
  02/07/12
Sounds like a hack to me. I could paint like Pollock. The gu...
Laughsome Office
  02/07/12
Jackson Pollock heralded the death of painting, all that's l...
Insanely creepy principal's office psychic
  06/20/22
Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.
Crimson cuckold
  02/07/12
EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual
Laughsome Office
  02/07/12
I didn't say he was...his art is. Academics took over the ...
Crimson cuckold
  02/07/12
Ok. How would you interpret this painting? http://thefron...
Laughsome Office
  02/07/12
I'm not an art critic. I'm a critic of art critics.
Crimson cuckold
  02/07/12
lol MagicEye noob
sepia lodge community account
  02/07/12
Well that was uninformed
thriller cruel-hearted piazza
  02/07/12
basically modern libs think intellectualism means whatever w...
umber deep mental disorder
  02/07/12
wow cr
Charcoal zombie-like chad juggernaut
  02/07/12
he took a line of thinking to its logical extreme, and ended...
Dark slimy mad-dog skullcap
  02/07/12
TITCR
Laughsome Office
  02/07/12
weve moved on: http://i.imgur.com/P8OAw.jpg now thats a...
Appetizing Base Tattoo
  02/07/12
conceptual art, truly, is art for the masses, if they could ...
Insanely creepy principal's office psychic
  02/07/12
banksy is the only artist who engages real people
Appetizing Base Tattoo
  02/07/12
I think Pollock paintings are beautiful. They're a sight to ...
translucent hairy legs institution
  02/07/12
It's a very spiritual place and you definitely should.
Crimson cuckold
  02/07/12
LOL, just LOL.
Laughsome Office
  02/07/12
If you choose to view art only in terms of its achievement a...
translucent hairy legs institution
  02/07/12
Separate the art from the artist = that looks like it was dr...
Concupiscible out-of-control wrinkle immigrant
  02/07/12
Rothkos are really impressive in person -- images like that ...
abnormal racy masturbator fortuitous meteor
  02/07/12
Agree it's much different, many of these paintings are huge ...
chartreuse flirting public bath
  02/07/12
I absolutely love Rothko too. What do you think about Mothe...
fishy stead sandwich
  06/20/22
great, but the post-war intellectual milieu from which his i...
violet lascivious dilemma deer antler
  02/07/12
If it doesn't have a shiny baby Jebus I ain't lookin'
misunderstood toilet seat theater stage
  02/07/12
the credited summary if u mad about this: http://www.tom...
Appetizing Base Tattoo
  02/07/12
somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash
Concupiscible out-of-control wrinkle immigrant
  02/07/12
Now THIS is painting: http://www.paintinghere.com/UploadPic...
abnormal racy masturbator fortuitous meteor
  02/07/12
Oh What a Painter!
Rose School Cafeteria French Chef
  02/07/12
IMO getting MAD in this day and age about Jackson fucking Po...
abnormal racy masturbator fortuitous meteor
  02/07/12
one of the more credited poasts i've seen in 10 years on thi...
Rose School Cafeteria French Chef
  02/07/12
link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?
fishy stead sandwich
  06/20/22
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/02/29/arts/00newartist1...
Excitant frozen antidepressant drug
  06/20/22
lol. I was being serious
fishy stead sandwich
  06/20/22
big fan
Ruby Theatre
  06/20/22
...
overrated supple international law enforcement agency
  06/20/22
movie on him on netflix
Buff church building hominid
  02/07/12
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-...
slap-happy mad cow disease
  06/20/22
Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?
Puce Cruise Ship Lettuce
  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: Laughsome Office

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#19916184)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:05 PM
Author: Laughsome Office

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#19916191)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: histrionic disgusting locus

that's pretty dope

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:07 PM
Author: brindle giraffe

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#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#49862225)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:07 PM
Author: Insanely creepy principal's office psychic

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#19916202)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:08 PM
Author: Laughsome Office

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#19916206)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:11 PM
Author: brindle giraffe

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#19916216)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:14 PM
Author: Insanely creepy principal's office psychic

u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:24 PM
Author: brindle giraffe

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#19916279)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:26 PM
Author: Insanely creepy principal's office psychic

ur beautiful when ur hungry

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: Insanely creepy principal's office psychic

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#19916221)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:18 PM
Author: Crimson cuckold

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#19916252)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:09 PM
Author: abnormal racy masturbator fortuitous meteor

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:48 PM
Author: Rose School Cafeteria French Chef

(no homily)

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:14 PM
Author: Ultramarine titillating center new version

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#19916234)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:15 PM
Author: Laughsome Office

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#19916239)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: Insanely creepy principal's office psychic

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#44713874)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:10 PM
Author: Crimson cuckold

Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: Laughsome Office

EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:15 PM
Author: Crimson cuckold

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#19916242)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:17 PM
Author: Laughsome Office

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#19916249)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: Crimson cuckold

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#19916258)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:30 PM
Author: sepia lodge community account

lol MagicEye noob

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: thriller cruel-hearted piazza

Well that was uninformed

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:17 PM
Author: umber deep mental disorder

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#19916248)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:47 PM
Author: Charcoal zombie-like chad juggernaut

wow cr

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: Dark slimy mad-dog skullcap

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#19916256)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:20 PM
Author: Laughsome Office

TITCR

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:21 PM
Author: Appetizing Base Tattoo

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

now thats art

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:24 PM
Author: Insanely creepy principal's office psychic

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#19916280)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:46 PM
Author: Appetizing Base Tattoo

banksy is the only artist who engages real people

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:30 PM
Author: translucent hairy legs institution

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#19916298)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:31 PM
Author: Crimson cuckold

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:34 PM
Author: Laughsome Office

LOL, just LOL.

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:41 PM
Author: translucent hairy legs institution

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#19916344)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:44 PM
Author: Concupiscible out-of-control wrinkle immigrant

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#19919110)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:06 PM
Author: abnormal racy masturbator fortuitous meteor

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#19919331)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:11 PM
Author: chartreuse flirting public bath

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#19919353)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:00 PM
Author: fishy stead sandwich

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#44713666)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:41 PM
Author: violet lascivious dilemma deer antler

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#19919089)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:44 PM
Author: misunderstood toilet seat theater stage

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#19919114)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:46 PM
Author: Appetizing Base Tattoo

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#19919139)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:49 PM
Author: Concupiscible out-of-control wrinkle immigrant

somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:07 PM
Author: abnormal racy masturbator fortuitous meteor

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#19919333)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:42 PM
Author: Rose School Cafeteria French Chef

Oh What a Painter!

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:12 PM
Author: abnormal racy masturbator fortuitous meteor

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#19919361)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:43 PM
Author: Rose School Cafeteria French Chef

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#19919600)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:03 PM
Author: fishy stead sandwich

link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:07 PM
Author: Excitant frozen antidepressant drug

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#44713691)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:41 PM
Author: fishy stead sandwich

lol. I was being serious

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: Ruby Theatre

big fan

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: overrated supple international law enforcement agency



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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:13 PM
Author: Buff church building hominid

movie on him on netflix

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 3:23 PM
Author: slap-happy mad cow disease

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#44713016)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:48 PM
Author: Puce Cruise Ship Lettuce

Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?

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