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Jackson Pollock: great artist or flame?

Anyone can throw paint on a canvas. A five year old could do...
Dun cheese-eating liquid oxygen
  02/07/12
Typical Jackson Pollock painting: http://www.ibiblio.org/...
Dun cheese-eating liquid oxygen
  02/07/12
that's pretty dope
Magenta fanboi
  02/07/12
he painted in like the 40s dood, most people had never even ...
Hairraiser coral laser beams
  02/07/12
...
Bill Richmond
  05/03/26
great cuzzz his art broke the bonds of figurative art, relea...
salmon bespoke masturbator lettuce
  02/07/12
LOL @ throwing random colors at a canvas and calling it figu...
Dun cheese-eating liquid oxygen
  02/07/12
dcpoast can go fuck the wrong end of a tiger shark, but lol ...
Hairraiser coral laser beams
  02/07/12
u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity
salmon bespoke masturbator lettuce
  02/07/12
actually i'm just expressing my highly informed opinion that...
Hairraiser coral laser beams
  02/07/12
ur beautiful when ur hungry
salmon bespoke masturbator lettuce
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism is about a new birth of freedom in se...
salmon bespoke masturbator lettuce
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism and nearly all avant garde art is act...
fear-inspiring ocher roommate
  02/07/12
Um, that hasn't been true for like 50 years.
buff philosopher-king tanning salon
  02/07/12
(no homily)
thirsty main people turdskin
  02/07/12
Pollock could also have painted really well in a more tradit...
Charismatic bistre nursing home
  02/07/12
Sounds like a hack to me. I could paint like Pollock. The gu...
Dun cheese-eating liquid oxygen
  02/07/12
Jackson Pollock heralded the death of painting, all that's l...
salmon bespoke masturbator lettuce
  06/20/22
Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.
fear-inspiring ocher roommate
  02/07/12
EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual
Dun cheese-eating liquid oxygen
  02/07/12
I didn't say he was...his art is. Academics took over the ...
fear-inspiring ocher roommate
  02/07/12
Ok. How would you interpret this painting? http://thefron...
Dun cheese-eating liquid oxygen
  02/07/12
I'm not an art critic. I'm a critic of art critics.
fear-inspiring ocher roommate
  02/07/12
lol MagicEye noob
orange persian dysfunction
  02/07/12
Well that was uninformed
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  02/07/12
basically modern libs think intellectualism means whatever w...
talented embarrassed to the bone faggotry trump supporter
  02/07/12
wow cr
Haunting Step-uncle's House Double Fault
  02/07/12
he took a line of thinking to its logical extreme, and ended...
Fantasy-prone stage
  02/07/12
TITCR
Dun cheese-eating liquid oxygen
  02/07/12
weve moved on: http://i.imgur.com/P8OAw.jpg now thats a...
supple swollen clown public bath
  02/07/12
conceptual art, truly, is art for the masses, if they could ...
salmon bespoke masturbator lettuce
  02/07/12
banksy is the only artist who engages real people
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  02/07/12
I think Pollock paintings are beautiful. They're a sight to ...
Lemon nighttime office
  02/07/12
It's a very spiritual place and you definitely should.
fear-inspiring ocher roommate
  02/07/12
LOL, just LOL.
Dun cheese-eating liquid oxygen
  02/07/12
If you choose to view art only in terms of its achievement a...
Lemon nighttime office
  02/07/12
Separate the art from the artist = that looks like it was dr...
glittery hell
  02/07/12
Rothkos are really impressive in person -- images like that ...
buff philosopher-king tanning salon
  02/07/12
Agree it's much different, many of these paintings are huge ...
brass electric corner
  02/07/12
I absolutely love Rothko too. What do you think about Mothe...
Drunken Halford Center
  06/20/22
great, but the post-war intellectual milieu from which his i...
Shaky flushed circlehead
  02/07/12
If it doesn't have a shiny baby Jebus I ain't lookin'
Outnumbered provocative crackhouse
  02/07/12
the credited summary if u mad about this: http://www.tom...
supple swollen clown public bath
  02/07/12
somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash
glittery hell
  02/07/12
Now THIS is painting: http://www.paintinghere.com/UploadPic...
buff philosopher-king tanning salon
  02/07/12
Oh What a Painter!
thirsty main people turdskin
  02/07/12
IMO getting MAD in this day and age about Jackson fucking Po...
buff philosopher-king tanning salon
  02/07/12
one of the more credited poasts i've seen in 10 years on thi...
thirsty main people turdskin
  02/07/12
link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?
Drunken Halford Center
  06/20/22
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/02/29/arts/00newartist1...
Vermilion racy brethren address
  06/20/22
lol. I was being serious
Drunken Halford Center
  06/20/22
big fan
Lascivious theatre
  06/20/22
...
Carnelian histrionic boistinker
  06/20/22
movie on him on netflix
house-broken ape
  02/07/12
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-...
Submissive Curious State
  06/20/22
Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?
Chocolate Station Haunted Graveyard
  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: Dun cheese-eating liquid oxygen

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=2Reputation#19916184)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:05 PM
Author: Dun cheese-eating liquid oxygen

Typical Jackson Pollock painting:

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/pollock/pollock.number-8.jpg

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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: Magenta fanboi

that's pretty dope

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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:07 PM
Author: Hairraiser coral laser beams

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=2Reputation#19916201)



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Date: May 3rd, 2026 5:30 PM
Author: Bill Richmond ((zurich is stained))



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:07 PM
Author: salmon bespoke masturbator lettuce

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=2Reputation#19916202)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:08 PM
Author: Dun cheese-eating liquid oxygen

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=2Reputation#19916206)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:11 PM
Author: Hairraiser coral laser beams

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=2Reputation#19916216)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:14 PM
Author: salmon bespoke masturbator lettuce

u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:24 PM
Author: Hairraiser coral laser beams

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=2Reputation#19916279)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:26 PM
Author: salmon bespoke masturbator lettuce

ur beautiful when ur hungry

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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: salmon bespoke masturbator lettuce

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=2Reputation#19916221)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:18 PM
Author: fear-inspiring ocher roommate

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=2Reputation#19916252)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:09 PM
Author: buff philosopher-king tanning salon

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:48 PM
Author: thirsty main people turdskin

(no homily)

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:14 PM
Author: Charismatic bistre nursing home

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=2Reputation#19916234)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:15 PM
Author: Dun cheese-eating liquid oxygen

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=2Reputation#19916239)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: salmon bespoke masturbator lettuce

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=2Reputation#44713874)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:10 PM
Author: fear-inspiring ocher roommate

Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: Dun cheese-eating liquid oxygen

EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:15 PM
Author: fear-inspiring ocher roommate

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=2Reputation#19916242)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:17 PM
Author: Dun cheese-eating liquid oxygen

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=2Reputation#19916249)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: fear-inspiring ocher roommate

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:30 PM
Author: orange persian dysfunction

lol MagicEye noob

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: 180 yapping gay wizard casino

Well that was uninformed

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:17 PM
Author: talented embarrassed to the bone faggotry trump supporter

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=2Reputation#19916248)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:47 PM
Author: Haunting Step-uncle's House Double Fault

wow cr

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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: Fantasy-prone stage

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=2Reputation#19916256)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:20 PM
Author: Dun cheese-eating liquid oxygen

TITCR

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:21 PM
Author: supple swollen clown public bath

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

now thats art

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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:24 PM
Author: salmon bespoke masturbator lettuce

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:46 PM
Author: supple swollen clown public bath

banksy is the only artist who engages real people

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:30 PM
Author: Lemon nighttime office

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=2Reputation#19916298)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:31 PM
Author: fear-inspiring ocher roommate

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:34 PM
Author: Dun cheese-eating liquid oxygen

LOL, just LOL.

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:41 PM
Author: Lemon nighttime office

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=2Reputation#19916344)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:44 PM
Author: glittery hell

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=2Reputation#19919110)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:06 PM
Author: buff philosopher-king tanning salon

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=2Reputation#19919331)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:11 PM
Author: brass electric corner

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=2Reputation#19919353)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:00 PM
Author: Drunken Halford Center

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=2Reputation#44713666)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:41 PM
Author: Shaky flushed circlehead

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=2Reputation#19919089)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:44 PM
Author: Outnumbered provocative crackhouse

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

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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:46 PM
Author: supple swollen clown public bath

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=2Reputation#19919139)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:49 PM
Author: glittery hell

somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:07 PM
Author: buff philosopher-king tanning salon

Now THIS is painting:

http://www.paintinghere.com/UploadPic/Thomas%20Kinkade/big/NASCAR%20THUNDER.JPG

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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:42 PM
Author: thirsty main people turdskin

Oh What a Painter!

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:12 PM
Author: buff philosopher-king tanning salon

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=2Reputation#19919361)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:43 PM
Author: thirsty main people turdskin

one of the more credited poasts i've seen in 10 years on this tweetblawg

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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:03 PM
Author: Drunken Halford Center

link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?

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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:07 PM
Author: Vermilion racy brethren address

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

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:41 PM
Author: Drunken Halford Center

lol. I was being serious

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: Lascivious theatre

big fan

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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: Carnelian histrionic boistinker



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:13 PM
Author: house-broken ape

movie on him on netflix

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Date: June 20th, 2022 3:23 PM
Author: Submissive Curious State

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html

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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:48 PM
Author: Chocolate Station Haunted Graveyard

Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?

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Date: May 3rd, 2026 5:30 PM
Author: i gave my cousin head

cia stooge

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