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Jackson Pollock: great artist or flame?

Anyone can throw paint on a canvas. A five year old could do...
red talented giraffe cruise ship
  02/07/12
Typical Jackson Pollock painting: http://www.ibiblio.org/...
red talented giraffe cruise ship
  02/07/12
that's pretty dope
Doobsian amber garrison
  02/07/12
he painted in like the 40s dood, most people had never even ...
domesticated drab chapel deer antler
  02/07/12
...
Bill Richmond
  05/03/26
great cuzzz his art broke the bonds of figurative art, relea...
Trip parlor jewess
  02/07/12
LOL @ throwing random colors at a canvas and calling it figu...
red talented giraffe cruise ship
  02/07/12
dcpoast can go fuck the wrong end of a tiger shark, but lol ...
domesticated drab chapel deer antler
  02/07/12
u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity
Trip parlor jewess
  02/07/12
actually i'm just expressing my highly informed opinion that...
domesticated drab chapel deer antler
  02/07/12
ur beautiful when ur hungry
Trip parlor jewess
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism is about a new birth of freedom in se...
Trip parlor jewess
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism and nearly all avant garde art is act...
cerebral area death wish
  02/07/12
Um, that hasn't been true for like 50 years.
Overrated piazza degenerate
  02/07/12
(no homily)
scarlet stimulating stage
  02/07/12
Pollock could also have painted really well in a more tradit...
confused walnut mood immigrant
  02/07/12
Sounds like a hack to me. I could paint like Pollock. The gu...
red talented giraffe cruise ship
  02/07/12
Jackson Pollock heralded the death of painting, all that's l...
Trip parlor jewess
  06/20/22
Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.
cerebral area death wish
  02/07/12
EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual
red talented giraffe cruise ship
  02/07/12
I didn't say he was...his art is. Academics took over the ...
cerebral area death wish
  02/07/12
Ok. How would you interpret this painting? http://thefron...
red talented giraffe cruise ship
  02/07/12
I'm not an art critic. I'm a critic of art critics.
cerebral area death wish
  02/07/12
lol MagicEye noob
laughsome unholy background story
  02/07/12
Well that was uninformed
underhanded mahogany property
  02/07/12
basically modern libs think intellectualism means whatever w...
thirsty corner personal credit line
  02/07/12
wow cr
Cocky idiotic windowlicker
  02/07/12
he took a line of thinking to its logical extreme, and ended...
Costumed Disturbing Kitty
  02/07/12
TITCR
red talented giraffe cruise ship
  02/07/12
weve moved on: http://i.imgur.com/P8OAw.jpg now thats a...
Lime ungodly house
  02/07/12
conceptual art, truly, is art for the masses, if they could ...
Trip parlor jewess
  02/07/12
banksy is the only artist who engages real people
Lime ungodly house
  02/07/12
I think Pollock paintings are beautiful. They're a sight to ...
Glittery kink-friendly affirmative action
  02/07/12
It's a very spiritual place and you definitely should.
cerebral area death wish
  02/07/12
LOL, just LOL.
red talented giraffe cruise ship
  02/07/12
If you choose to view art only in terms of its achievement a...
Glittery kink-friendly affirmative action
  02/07/12
Separate the art from the artist = that looks like it was dr...
odious office athletic conference
  02/07/12
Rothkos are really impressive in person -- images like that ...
Overrated piazza degenerate
  02/07/12
Agree it's much different, many of these paintings are huge ...
Henna nudist box office private investor
  02/07/12
I absolutely love Rothko too. What do you think about Mothe...
boyish arrogant preventive strike feces
  06/20/22
great, but the post-war intellectual milieu from which his i...
White Yapping Locale Juggernaut
  02/07/12
If it doesn't have a shiny baby Jebus I ain't lookin'
internet-worthy national security agency
  02/07/12
the credited summary if u mad about this: http://www.tom...
Lime ungodly house
  02/07/12
somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash
odious office athletic conference
  02/07/12
Now THIS is painting: http://www.paintinghere.com/UploadPic...
Overrated piazza degenerate
  02/07/12
Oh What a Painter!
scarlet stimulating stage
  02/07/12
IMO getting MAD in this day and age about Jackson fucking Po...
Overrated piazza degenerate
  02/07/12
one of the more credited poasts i've seen in 10 years on thi...
scarlet stimulating stage
  02/07/12
link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?
boyish arrogant preventive strike feces
  06/20/22
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/02/29/arts/00newartist1...
Fantasy-prone avocado ticket booth masturbator
  06/20/22
lol. I was being serious
boyish arrogant preventive strike feces
  06/20/22
big fan
Multi-colored lay puppy
  06/20/22
...
magenta cowardly hairy legs
  06/20/22
movie on him on netflix
soul-stirring locus
  02/07/12
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-...
Brindle bonkers range organic girlfriend
  06/20/22
Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?
iridescent excitant lettuce jap
  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: red talented giraffe cruise ship

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: red talented giraffe cruise ship

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: Doobsian amber 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: domesticated drab chapel deer antler

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: Trip parlor jewess

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: red talented giraffe cruise ship

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: domesticated drab chapel deer antler

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: Trip parlor jewess

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: domesticated drab chapel deer antler

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: Trip parlor jewess

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: Trip parlor jewess

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: cerebral area death wish

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: Overrated piazza degenerate

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: scarlet stimulating stage

(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: confused walnut mood immigrant

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: red talented giraffe cruise ship

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: Trip parlor jewess

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: cerebral area death wish

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: red talented giraffe cruise ship

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: cerebral area death wish

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: red talented giraffe cruise ship

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: cerebral area death wish

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: laughsome unholy background story

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: underhanded mahogany property

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: thirsty corner personal credit line

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: Cocky idiotic windowlicker

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: Costumed Disturbing Kitty

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: red talented giraffe cruise ship

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: Lime ungodly house

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: Trip parlor jewess

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: Lime ungodly house

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: Glittery kink-friendly affirmative action

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: cerebral area death wish

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: red talented giraffe cruise ship

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: Glittery kink-friendly affirmative action

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: odious office athletic conference

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: Overrated piazza degenerate

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: Henna nudist box office private investor

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: boyish arrogant preventive strike feces

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: White Yapping Locale Juggernaut

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: internet-worthy national security agency

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: Lime ungodly house

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: odious office athletic conference

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: Overrated piazza degenerate

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: scarlet stimulating stage

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: Overrated piazza degenerate

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: scarlet stimulating stage

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: boyish arrogant preventive strike feces

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: Fantasy-prone avocado ticket booth masturbator

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: boyish arrogant preventive strike feces

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: Multi-colored lay puppy

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: magenta cowardly hairy legs



(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: soul-stirring locus

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: Brindle bonkers range organic girlfriend

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: iridescent excitant lettuce jap

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)