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Jackson Pollock: great artist or flame?

Anyone can throw paint on a canvas. A five year old could do...
walnut soul-stirring hell
  02/07/12
Typical Jackson Pollock painting: http://www.ibiblio.org/...
walnut soul-stirring hell
  02/07/12
that's pretty dope
heady school cafeteria
  02/07/12
he painted in like the 40s dood, most people had never even ...
transparent electric roast beef kitchen
  02/07/12
...
Bill Richmond
  05/03/26
great cuzzz his art broke the bonds of figurative art, relea...
autistic preventive strike striped hyena
  02/07/12
LOL @ throwing random colors at a canvas and calling it figu...
walnut soul-stirring hell
  02/07/12
dcpoast can go fuck the wrong end of a tiger shark, but lol ...
transparent electric roast beef kitchen
  02/07/12
u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity
autistic preventive strike striped hyena
  02/07/12
actually i'm just expressing my highly informed opinion that...
transparent electric roast beef kitchen
  02/07/12
ur beautiful when ur hungry
autistic preventive strike striped hyena
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism is about a new birth of freedom in se...
autistic preventive strike striped hyena
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism and nearly all avant garde art is act...
stirring forum
  02/07/12
Um, that hasn't been true for like 50 years.
Cream turdskin
  02/07/12
(no homily)
ultramarine spectacular whorehouse voyeur
  02/07/12
Pollock could also have painted really well in a more tradit...
Misunderstood Self-absorbed Business Firm
  02/07/12
Sounds like a hack to me. I could paint like Pollock. The gu...
walnut soul-stirring hell
  02/07/12
Jackson Pollock heralded the death of painting, all that's l...
autistic preventive strike striped hyena
  06/20/22
Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.
stirring forum
  02/07/12
EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual
walnut soul-stirring hell
  02/07/12
I didn't say he was...his art is. Academics took over the ...
stirring forum
  02/07/12
Ok. How would you interpret this painting? http://thefron...
walnut soul-stirring hell
  02/07/12
I'm not an art critic. I'm a critic of art critics.
stirring forum
  02/07/12
lol MagicEye noob
Appetizing elite tanning salon international law enforcement agency
  02/07/12
Well that was uninformed
Motley elastic band spot
  02/07/12
basically modern libs think intellectualism means whatever w...
excitant windowlicker
  02/07/12
wow cr
Fragrant Geriatric Mother
  02/07/12
he took a line of thinking to its logical extreme, and ended...
rusted aggressive field
  02/07/12
TITCR
walnut soul-stirring hell
  02/07/12
weve moved on: http://i.imgur.com/P8OAw.jpg now thats a...
Mind-boggling federal theater
  02/07/12
conceptual art, truly, is art for the masses, if they could ...
autistic preventive strike striped hyena
  02/07/12
banksy is the only artist who engages real people
Mind-boggling federal theater
  02/07/12
I think Pollock paintings are beautiful. They're a sight to ...
nubile pisswyrm
  02/07/12
It's a very spiritual place and you definitely should.
stirring forum
  02/07/12
LOL, just LOL.
walnut soul-stirring hell
  02/07/12
If you choose to view art only in terms of its achievement a...
nubile pisswyrm
  02/07/12
Separate the art from the artist = that looks like it was dr...
hairraiser shivering lay
  02/07/12
Rothkos are really impressive in person -- images like that ...
Cream turdskin
  02/07/12
Agree it's much different, many of these paintings are huge ...
Light razzle-dazzle electric furnace shrine
  02/07/12
I absolutely love Rothko too. What do you think about Mothe...
Drunken gay wizard
  06/20/22
great, but the post-war intellectual milieu from which his i...
Galvanic pocket flask
  02/07/12
If it doesn't have a shiny baby Jebus I ain't lookin'
wine digit ratio
  02/07/12
the credited summary if u mad about this: http://www.tom...
Mind-boggling federal theater
  02/07/12
somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash
hairraiser shivering lay
  02/07/12
Now THIS is painting: http://www.paintinghere.com/UploadPic...
Cream turdskin
  02/07/12
Oh What a Painter!
ultramarine spectacular whorehouse voyeur
  02/07/12
IMO getting MAD in this day and age about Jackson fucking Po...
Cream turdskin
  02/07/12
one of the more credited poasts i've seen in 10 years on thi...
ultramarine spectacular whorehouse voyeur
  02/07/12
link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?
Drunken gay wizard
  06/20/22
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/02/29/arts/00newartist1...
jade institution round eye
  06/20/22
lol. I was being serious
Drunken gay wizard
  06/20/22
big fan
Fiercely-loyal Toilet Seat Plaza
  06/20/22
...
Boyish haunted graveyard
  06/20/22
movie on him on netflix
Sadistic Cuck Native
  02/07/12
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-...
cordovan depressive set
  06/20/22
Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?
chestnut concupiscible gas station
  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: walnut soul-stirring hell

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...id..#19916184)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:05 PM
Author: walnut soul-stirring hell

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...id..#19916191)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: heady school cafeteria

that's pretty dope

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:07 PM
Author: transparent electric roast beef kitchen

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...id..#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...id..#49862225)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:07 PM
Author: autistic preventive strike striped hyena

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...id..#19916202)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:08 PM
Author: walnut soul-stirring hell

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...id..#19916206)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:11 PM
Author: transparent electric roast beef kitchen

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...id..#19916216)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:14 PM
Author: autistic preventive strike striped hyena

u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:24 PM
Author: transparent electric roast beef kitchen

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...id..#19916279)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:26 PM
Author: autistic preventive strike striped hyena

ur beautiful when ur hungry

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: autistic preventive strike striped hyena

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...id..#19916221)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:18 PM
Author: stirring forum

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...id..#19916252)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:09 PM
Author: Cream turdskin

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:48 PM
Author: ultramarine spectacular whorehouse voyeur

(no homily)

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:14 PM
Author: Misunderstood Self-absorbed Business Firm

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...id..#19916234)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:15 PM
Author: walnut soul-stirring hell

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...id..#19916239)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: autistic preventive strike striped hyena

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...id..#44713874)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:10 PM
Author: stirring forum

Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: walnut soul-stirring hell

EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:15 PM
Author: stirring forum

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...id..#19916242)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:17 PM
Author: walnut soul-stirring hell

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...id..#19916249)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: stirring forum

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...id..#19916258)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:30 PM
Author: Appetizing elite tanning salon international law enforcement agency

lol MagicEye noob

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: Motley elastic band spot

Well that was uninformed

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:17 PM
Author: excitant windowlicker

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...id..#19916248)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:47 PM
Author: Fragrant Geriatric Mother

wow cr

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: rusted aggressive field

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...id..#19916256)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:20 PM
Author: walnut soul-stirring hell

TITCR

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:21 PM
Author: Mind-boggling federal theater

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

now thats art

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:24 PM
Author: autistic preventive strike striped hyena

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...id..#19916280)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:46 PM
Author: Mind-boggling federal theater

banksy is the only artist who engages real people

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:30 PM
Author: nubile pisswyrm

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...id..#19916298)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:31 PM
Author: stirring forum

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:34 PM
Author: walnut soul-stirring hell

LOL, just LOL.

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:41 PM
Author: nubile pisswyrm

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...id..#19916344)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:44 PM
Author: hairraiser shivering lay

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...id..#19919110)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:06 PM
Author: Cream turdskin

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...id..#19919331)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:11 PM
Author: Light razzle-dazzle electric furnace shrine

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...id..#19919353)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:00 PM
Author: Drunken gay wizard

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...id..#44713666)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:41 PM
Author: Galvanic pocket flask

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...id..#19919089)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:44 PM
Author: wine digit ratio

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...id..#19919114)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:46 PM
Author: Mind-boggling federal theater

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...id..#19919139)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:49 PM
Author: hairraiser shivering lay

somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:07 PM
Author: Cream turdskin

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...id..#19919333)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:42 PM
Author: ultramarine spectacular whorehouse voyeur

Oh What a Painter!

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:12 PM
Author: Cream turdskin

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...id..#19919361)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:43 PM
Author: ultramarine spectacular whorehouse voyeur

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...id..#19919600)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:03 PM
Author: Drunken gay wizard

link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:07 PM
Author: jade institution round eye

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...id..#44713691)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:41 PM
Author: Drunken gay wizard

lol. I was being serious

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: Fiercely-loyal Toilet Seat Plaza

big fan

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: Boyish haunted graveyard



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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:13 PM
Author: Sadistic Cuck Native

movie on him on netflix

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 3:23 PM
Author: cordovan depressive set

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...id..#44713016)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:48 PM
Author: chestnut concupiscible gas station

Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?

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