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Jackson Pollock: great artist or flame?

Anyone can throw paint on a canvas. A five year old could do...
Cordovan hunting ground partner
  02/07/12
Typical Jackson Pollock painting: http://www.ibiblio.org/...
Cordovan hunting ground partner
  02/07/12
that's pretty dope
Massive lake garrison
  02/07/12
he painted in like the 40s dood, most people had never even ...
Supple friendly grandma locus
  02/07/12
...
Bill Richmond
  05/03/26
great cuzzz his art broke the bonds of figurative art, relea...
Haunting saffron corner
  02/07/12
LOL @ throwing random colors at a canvas and calling it figu...
Cordovan hunting ground partner
  02/07/12
dcpoast can go fuck the wrong end of a tiger shark, but lol ...
Supple friendly grandma locus
  02/07/12
u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity
Haunting saffron corner
  02/07/12
actually i'm just expressing my highly informed opinion that...
Supple friendly grandma locus
  02/07/12
ur beautiful when ur hungry
Haunting saffron corner
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism is about a new birth of freedom in se...
Haunting saffron corner
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism and nearly all avant garde art is act...
Anal Faggotry
  02/07/12
Um, that hasn't been true for like 50 years.
Fuchsia Magical Voyeur
  02/07/12
(no homily)
Narrow-minded background story headpube
  02/07/12
Pollock could also have painted really well in a more tradit...
stimulating location
  02/07/12
Sounds like a hack to me. I could paint like Pollock. The gu...
Cordovan hunting ground partner
  02/07/12
Jackson Pollock heralded the death of painting, all that's l...
Haunting saffron corner
  06/20/22
Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.
Anal Faggotry
  02/07/12
EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual
Cordovan hunting ground partner
  02/07/12
I didn't say he was...his art is. Academics took over the ...
Anal Faggotry
  02/07/12
Ok. How would you interpret this painting? http://thefron...
Cordovan hunting ground partner
  02/07/12
I'm not an art critic. I'm a critic of art critics.
Anal Faggotry
  02/07/12
lol MagicEye noob
stirring space factory reset button
  02/07/12
Well that was uninformed
onyx international law enforcement agency indian lodge
  02/07/12
basically modern libs think intellectualism means whatever w...
Insanely creepy ebony circlehead indirect expression
  02/07/12
wow cr
Spectacular telephone
  02/07/12
he took a line of thinking to its logical extreme, and ended...
Laughsome overrated tanning salon
  02/07/12
TITCR
Cordovan hunting ground partner
  02/07/12
weve moved on: http://i.imgur.com/P8OAw.jpg now thats a...
vivacious violet mother principal's office
  02/07/12
conceptual art, truly, is art for the masses, if they could ...
Haunting saffron corner
  02/07/12
banksy is the only artist who engages real people
vivacious violet mother principal's office
  02/07/12
I think Pollock paintings are beautiful. They're a sight to ...
razzle iridescent property dragon
  02/07/12
It's a very spiritual place and you definitely should.
Anal Faggotry
  02/07/12
LOL, just LOL.
Cordovan hunting ground partner
  02/07/12
If you choose to view art only in terms of its achievement a...
razzle iridescent property dragon
  02/07/12
Separate the art from the artist = that looks like it was dr...
impertinent bistre community account multi-billionaire
  02/07/12
Rothkos are really impressive in person -- images like that ...
Fuchsia Magical Voyeur
  02/07/12
Agree it's much different, many of these paintings are huge ...
Wonderful shitlib
  02/07/12
I absolutely love Rothko too. What do you think about Mothe...
jet crusty church building immigrant
  06/20/22
great, but the post-war intellectual milieu from which his i...
Irradiated Sex Offender Patrolman
  02/07/12
If it doesn't have a shiny baby Jebus I ain't lookin'
snowy at-the-ready gay wizard
  02/07/12
the credited summary if u mad about this: http://www.tom...
vivacious violet mother principal's office
  02/07/12
somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash
impertinent bistre community account multi-billionaire
  02/07/12
Now THIS is painting: http://www.paintinghere.com/UploadPic...
Fuchsia Magical Voyeur
  02/07/12
Oh What a Painter!
Narrow-minded background story headpube
  02/07/12
IMO getting MAD in this day and age about Jackson fucking Po...
Fuchsia Magical Voyeur
  02/07/12
one of the more credited poasts i've seen in 10 years on thi...
Narrow-minded background story headpube
  02/07/12
link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?
jet crusty church building immigrant
  06/20/22
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/02/29/arts/00newartist1...
Odious Puppy Meetinghouse
  06/20/22
lol. I was being serious
jet crusty church building immigrant
  06/20/22
big fan
Walnut Gaping
  06/20/22
...
vigorous submissive codepig quadroon
  06/20/22
movie on him on netflix
Maize Talented Sneaky Criminal Market
  02/07/12
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-...
Crystalline electric scourge upon the earth sound barrier
  06/20/22
Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?
Histrionic vengeful church 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: Cordovan hunting ground partner

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: Cordovan hunting ground partner

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: Massive lake garrison

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: Supple friendly grandma locus

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: Haunting saffron corner

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: Cordovan hunting ground partner

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: Supple friendly grandma locus

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: Haunting saffron corner

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: Supple friendly grandma locus

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: Haunting saffron corner

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: Haunting saffron corner

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: Anal Faggotry

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: Fuchsia Magical Voyeur

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: Narrow-minded background story headpube

(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: stimulating location

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: Cordovan hunting ground partner

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: Haunting saffron corner

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: Anal Faggotry

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: Cordovan hunting ground partner

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: Anal Faggotry

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: Cordovan hunting ground partner

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: Anal Faggotry

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: stirring space factory reset button

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: onyx international law enforcement agency indian lodge

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: Insanely creepy ebony circlehead indirect expression

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: Spectacular telephone

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: Laughsome overrated tanning salon

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: Cordovan hunting ground partner

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: vivacious violet mother principal's office

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: Haunting saffron corner

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: vivacious violet mother principal's office

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: razzle iridescent property dragon

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: Anal Faggotry

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: Cordovan hunting ground partner

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: razzle iridescent property dragon

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: impertinent bistre community account multi-billionaire

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: Fuchsia Magical Voyeur

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: Wonderful shitlib

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: jet crusty church building immigrant

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: Irradiated Sex Offender Patrolman

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: snowy at-the-ready gay wizard

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: vivacious violet mother principal's office

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: impertinent bistre community account multi-billionaire

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: Fuchsia Magical Voyeur

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: Narrow-minded background story headpube

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: Fuchsia Magical Voyeur

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: Narrow-minded background story headpube

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: jet crusty church building immigrant

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: Odious Puppy Meetinghouse

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: jet crusty church building immigrant

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: Walnut Gaping

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: vigorous submissive codepig quadroon



(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: Maize Talented Sneaky Criminal Market

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: Crystalline electric scourge upon the earth sound barrier

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: Histrionic vengeful church turdskin

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)