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Jackson Pollock: great artist or flame?

Anyone can throw paint on a canvas. A five year old could do...
Razzle-dazzle corner
  02/07/12
Typical Jackson Pollock painting: http://www.ibiblio.org/...
Razzle-dazzle corner
  02/07/12
that's pretty dope
Internet-worthy gay wizard
  02/07/12
he painted in like the 40s dood, most people had never even ...
lascivious domesticated organic girlfriend corn cake
  02/07/12
...
Filthy theater stage
  05/03/26
great cuzzz his art broke the bonds of figurative art, relea...
Sienna low-t halford
  02/07/12
LOL @ throwing random colors at a canvas and calling it figu...
Razzle-dazzle corner
  02/07/12
dcpoast can go fuck the wrong end of a tiger shark, but lol ...
lascivious domesticated organic girlfriend corn cake
  02/07/12
u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity
Sienna low-t halford
  02/07/12
actually i'm just expressing my highly informed opinion that...
lascivious domesticated organic girlfriend corn cake
  02/07/12
ur beautiful when ur hungry
Sienna low-t halford
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism is about a new birth of freedom in se...
Sienna low-t halford
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism and nearly all avant garde art is act...
180 voyeur
  02/07/12
Um, that hasn't been true for like 50 years.
floppy hall
  02/07/12
(no homily)
emerald demanding national security agency lodge
  02/07/12
Pollock could also have painted really well in a more tradit...
marvelous potus spot
  02/07/12
Sounds like a hack to me. I could paint like Pollock. The gu...
Razzle-dazzle corner
  02/07/12
Jackson Pollock heralded the death of painting, all that's l...
Sienna low-t halford
  06/20/22
Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.
180 voyeur
  02/07/12
EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual
Razzle-dazzle corner
  02/07/12
I didn't say he was...his art is. Academics took over the ...
180 voyeur
  02/07/12
Ok. How would you interpret this painting? http://thefron...
Razzle-dazzle corner
  02/07/12
I'm not an art critic. I'm a critic of art critics.
180 voyeur
  02/07/12
lol MagicEye noob
Nudist rehab ape
  02/07/12
Well that was uninformed
Charcoal Roast Beef Indirect Expression
  02/07/12
basically modern libs think intellectualism means whatever w...
electric frum roommate stage
  02/07/12
wow cr
dashing chapel pisswyrm
  02/07/12
he took a line of thinking to its logical extreme, and ended...
supple school idea he suggested
  02/07/12
TITCR
Razzle-dazzle corner
  02/07/12
weve moved on: http://i.imgur.com/P8OAw.jpg now thats a...
Chartreuse macaca
  02/07/12
conceptual art, truly, is art for the masses, if they could ...
Sienna low-t halford
  02/07/12
banksy is the only artist who engages real people
Chartreuse macaca
  02/07/12
I think Pollock paintings are beautiful. They're a sight to ...
Well-lubricated Place Of Business Scourge Upon The Earth
  02/07/12
It's a very spiritual place and you definitely should.
180 voyeur
  02/07/12
LOL, just LOL.
Razzle-dazzle corner
  02/07/12
If you choose to view art only in terms of its achievement a...
Well-lubricated Place Of Business Scourge Upon The Earth
  02/07/12
Separate the art from the artist = that looks like it was dr...
sadistic faggotry
  02/07/12
Rothkos are really impressive in person -- images like that ...
floppy hall
  02/07/12
Agree it's much different, many of these paintings are huge ...
trip spruce genital piercing nursing home
  02/07/12
I absolutely love Rothko too. What do you think about Mothe...
Lemon friendly grandma indian lodge
  06/20/22
great, but the post-war intellectual milieu from which his i...
Crusty crackhouse brethren
  02/07/12
If it doesn't have a shiny baby Jebus I ain't lookin'
Mustard Trailer Park Nibblets
  02/07/12
the credited summary if u mad about this: http://www.tom...
Chartreuse macaca
  02/07/12
somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash
sadistic faggotry
  02/07/12
Now THIS is painting: http://www.paintinghere.com/UploadPic...
floppy hall
  02/07/12
Oh What a Painter!
emerald demanding national security agency lodge
  02/07/12
IMO getting MAD in this day and age about Jackson fucking Po...
floppy hall
  02/07/12
one of the more credited poasts i've seen in 10 years on thi...
emerald demanding national security agency lodge
  02/07/12
link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?
Lemon friendly grandma indian lodge
  06/20/22
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/02/29/arts/00newartist1...
Ungodly Unholy Library Pocket Flask
  06/20/22
lol. I was being serious
Lemon friendly grandma indian lodge
  06/20/22
big fan
vivacious slippery messiness bbw
  06/20/22
...
Yellow Ticket Booth Doctorate
  06/20/22
movie on him on netflix
Fluffy sexy property
  02/07/12
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-...
mint heady cuckoldry
  06/20/22
Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?
maize hyperactive boistinker
  06/20/22
cia stooge
aggressive self-absorbed shrine
  05/03/26


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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:04 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle corner

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=2most#19916184)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:05 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle corner

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=2most#19916191)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: Internet-worthy gay wizard

that's pretty dope

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:07 PM
Author: lascivious domesticated organic girlfriend corn cake

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=2most#19916201)



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Date: May 3rd, 2026 5:30 PM
Author: Filthy theater stage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2most#49862225)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:07 PM
Author: Sienna low-t halford

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=2most#19916202)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:08 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle corner

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=2most#19916206)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:11 PM
Author: lascivious domesticated organic girlfriend corn cake

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=2most#19916216)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:14 PM
Author: Sienna low-t halford

u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:24 PM
Author: lascivious domesticated organic girlfriend corn cake

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=2most#19916279)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:26 PM
Author: Sienna low-t halford

ur beautiful when ur hungry

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: Sienna low-t halford

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=2most#19916221)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:18 PM
Author: 180 voyeur

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=2most#19916252)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:09 PM
Author: floppy hall

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:48 PM
Author: emerald demanding national security agency lodge

(no homily)

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:14 PM
Author: marvelous potus spot

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=2most#19916234)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:15 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle corner

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=2most#19916239)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: Sienna low-t halford

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=2most#44713874)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:10 PM
Author: 180 voyeur

Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle corner

EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:15 PM
Author: 180 voyeur

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=2most#19916242)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:17 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle corner

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=2most#19916249)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: 180 voyeur

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:30 PM
Author: Nudist rehab ape

lol MagicEye noob

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: Charcoal Roast Beef Indirect Expression

Well that was uninformed

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:17 PM
Author: electric frum roommate stage

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=2most#19916248)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:47 PM
Author: dashing chapel pisswyrm

wow cr

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: supple school idea he suggested

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=2most#19916256)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:20 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle corner

TITCR

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:21 PM
Author: Chartreuse macaca

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

now thats art

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:24 PM
Author: Sienna low-t halford

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:46 PM
Author: Chartreuse macaca

banksy is the only artist who engages real people

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:30 PM
Author: Well-lubricated Place Of Business Scourge Upon The Earth

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=2most#19916298)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:31 PM
Author: 180 voyeur

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:34 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle corner

LOL, just LOL.

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:41 PM
Author: Well-lubricated Place Of Business Scourge Upon The Earth

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=2most#19916344)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:44 PM
Author: sadistic faggotry

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=2most#19919110)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:06 PM
Author: floppy hall

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=2most#19919331)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:11 PM
Author: trip spruce genital piercing nursing home

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=2most#19919353)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:00 PM
Author: Lemon friendly grandma indian lodge

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=2most#44713666)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:41 PM
Author: Crusty crackhouse brethren

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=2most#19919089)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:44 PM
Author: Mustard Trailer Park Nibblets

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:46 PM
Author: Chartreuse macaca

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=2most#19919139)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:49 PM
Author: sadistic faggotry

somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:07 PM
Author: floppy hall

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=2most#19919333)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:42 PM
Author: emerald demanding national security agency lodge

Oh What a Painter!

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:12 PM
Author: floppy hall

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=2most#19919361)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:43 PM
Author: emerald demanding national security agency lodge

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=2most#19919600)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:03 PM
Author: Lemon friendly grandma indian lodge

link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:07 PM
Author: Ungodly Unholy Library Pocket Flask

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

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:41 PM
Author: Lemon friendly grandma indian lodge

lol. I was being serious

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: vivacious slippery messiness bbw

big fan

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: Yellow Ticket Booth Doctorate



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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:13 PM
Author: Fluffy sexy property

movie on him on netflix

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 3:23 PM
Author: mint heady cuckoldry

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=2most#44713016)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:48 PM
Author: maize hyperactive boistinker

Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2most#44713897)



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Date: May 3rd, 2026 5:30 PM
Author: aggressive self-absorbed shrine

cia stooge

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