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Jackson Pollock: great artist or flame?

Anyone can throw paint on a canvas. A five year old could do...
cheese-eating location jewess
  02/07/12
Typical Jackson Pollock painting: http://www.ibiblio.org/...
cheese-eating location jewess
  02/07/12
that's pretty dope
Swashbuckling stage
  02/07/12
he painted in like the 40s dood, most people had never even ...
primrose gunner
  02/07/12
...
Bill Richmond
  05/03/26
great cuzzz his art broke the bonds of figurative art, relea...
Ocher Menage
  02/07/12
LOL @ throwing random colors at a canvas and calling it figu...
cheese-eating location jewess
  02/07/12
dcpoast can go fuck the wrong end of a tiger shark, but lol ...
primrose gunner
  02/07/12
u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity
Ocher Menage
  02/07/12
actually i'm just expressing my highly informed opinion that...
primrose gunner
  02/07/12
ur beautiful when ur hungry
Ocher Menage
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism is about a new birth of freedom in se...
Ocher Menage
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism and nearly all avant garde art is act...
Hilarious property haunted graveyard
  02/07/12
Um, that hasn't been true for like 50 years.
tan immigrant field
  02/07/12
(no homily)
lemon telephone useless brakes
  02/07/12
Pollock could also have painted really well in a more tradit...
olive coldplay fan
  02/07/12
Sounds like a hack to me. I could paint like Pollock. The gu...
cheese-eating location jewess
  02/07/12
Jackson Pollock heralded the death of painting, all that's l...
Ocher Menage
  06/20/22
Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.
Hilarious property haunted graveyard
  02/07/12
EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual
cheese-eating location jewess
  02/07/12
I didn't say he was...his art is. Academics took over the ...
Hilarious property haunted graveyard
  02/07/12
Ok. How would you interpret this painting? http://thefron...
cheese-eating location jewess
  02/07/12
I'm not an art critic. I'm a critic of art critics.
Hilarious property haunted graveyard
  02/07/12
lol MagicEye noob
Amber floppy stain generalized bond
  02/07/12
Well that was uninformed
cruel-hearted supple incel
  02/07/12
basically modern libs think intellectualism means whatever w...
Motley Corner
  02/07/12
wow cr
Insane unholy athletic conference school cafeteria
  02/07/12
he took a line of thinking to its logical extreme, and ended...
Electric Knife
  02/07/12
TITCR
cheese-eating location jewess
  02/07/12
weve moved on: http://i.imgur.com/P8OAw.jpg now thats a...
Mildly Autistic Library Nowag
  02/07/12
conceptual art, truly, is art for the masses, if they could ...
Ocher Menage
  02/07/12
banksy is the only artist who engages real people
Mildly Autistic Library Nowag
  02/07/12
I think Pollock paintings are beautiful. They're a sight to ...
Disrespectful brunch
  02/07/12
It's a very spiritual place and you definitely should.
Hilarious property haunted graveyard
  02/07/12
LOL, just LOL.
cheese-eating location jewess
  02/07/12
If you choose to view art only in terms of its achievement a...
Disrespectful brunch
  02/07/12
Separate the art from the artist = that looks like it was dr...
Magenta Step-uncle's House
  02/07/12
Rothkos are really impressive in person -- images like that ...
tan immigrant field
  02/07/12
Agree it's much different, many of these paintings are huge ...
charismatic fishy house
  02/07/12
I absolutely love Rothko too. What do you think about Mothe...
Scarlet puppy tanning salon
  06/20/22
great, but the post-war intellectual milieu from which his i...
trip blue locus
  02/07/12
If it doesn't have a shiny baby Jebus I ain't lookin'
Twinkling magical boistinker
  02/07/12
the credited summary if u mad about this: http://www.tom...
Mildly Autistic Library Nowag
  02/07/12
somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash
Magenta Step-uncle's House
  02/07/12
Now THIS is painting: http://www.paintinghere.com/UploadPic...
tan immigrant field
  02/07/12
Oh What a Painter!
lemon telephone useless brakes
  02/07/12
IMO getting MAD in this day and age about Jackson fucking Po...
tan immigrant field
  02/07/12
one of the more credited poasts i've seen in 10 years on thi...
lemon telephone useless brakes
  02/07/12
link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?
Scarlet puppy tanning salon
  06/20/22
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/02/29/arts/00newartist1...
thriller crimson toilet seat
  06/20/22
lol. I was being serious
Scarlet puppy tanning salon
  06/20/22
big fan
Sick razzle-dazzle whorehouse
  06/20/22
...
Umber seedy police squad space
  06/20/22
movie on him on netflix
lake very tactful university deer antler
  02/07/12
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-...
well-lubricated laughsome karate dilemma
  06/20/22
Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?
nudist bawdyhouse
  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: cheese-eating location jewess

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: cheese-eating location jewess

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: Swashbuckling stage

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: primrose gunner

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: Ocher Menage

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: cheese-eating location jewess

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: primrose gunner

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: Ocher Menage

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: primrose gunner

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: Ocher Menage

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: Ocher Menage

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: Hilarious property haunted graveyard

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: tan immigrant field

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: lemon telephone useless brakes

(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: olive coldplay fan

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: cheese-eating location jewess

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: Ocher Menage

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: Hilarious property haunted graveyard

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: cheese-eating location jewess

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: Hilarious property haunted graveyard

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: cheese-eating location jewess

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: Hilarious property haunted graveyard

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: Amber floppy stain generalized bond

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: cruel-hearted supple incel

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: Motley Corner

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: Insane unholy athletic conference school cafeteria

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: Electric Knife

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: cheese-eating location jewess

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: Mildly Autistic Library Nowag

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: Ocher Menage

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: Mildly Autistic Library Nowag

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: Disrespectful brunch

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: Hilarious property haunted graveyard

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: cheese-eating location jewess

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: Disrespectful brunch

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: Magenta Step-uncle's House

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: tan immigrant field

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: charismatic fishy house

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: Scarlet puppy tanning salon

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: trip blue locus

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: Twinkling magical boistinker

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: Mildly Autistic Library Nowag

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: Magenta Step-uncle's House

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: tan immigrant field

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: lemon telephone useless brakes

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: tan immigrant field

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: lemon telephone useless brakes

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: Scarlet puppy tanning salon

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: thriller crimson toilet seat

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: Scarlet puppy tanning salon

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: Sick razzle-dazzle whorehouse

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: Umber seedy police squad space



(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: lake very tactful university deer antler

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: well-lubricated laughsome karate dilemma

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: nudist bawdyhouse

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)