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Jackson Pollock: great artist or flame?

Anyone can throw paint on a canvas. A five year old could do...
diverse snowy dysfunction
  02/07/12
Typical Jackson Pollock painting: http://www.ibiblio.org/...
diverse snowy dysfunction
  02/07/12
that's pretty dope
green deranged telephone community account
  02/07/12
he painted in like the 40s dood, most people had never even ...
seedy mental disorder
  02/07/12
...
Bill Richmond
  05/03/26
great cuzzz his art broke the bonds of figurative art, relea...
Vibrant crusty school
  02/07/12
LOL @ throwing random colors at a canvas and calling it figu...
diverse snowy dysfunction
  02/07/12
dcpoast can go fuck the wrong end of a tiger shark, but lol ...
seedy mental disorder
  02/07/12
u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity
Vibrant crusty school
  02/07/12
actually i'm just expressing my highly informed opinion that...
seedy mental disorder
  02/07/12
ur beautiful when ur hungry
Vibrant crusty school
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism is about a new birth of freedom in se...
Vibrant crusty school
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism and nearly all avant garde art is act...
Nofapping library quadroon
  02/07/12
Um, that hasn't been true for like 50 years.
know-it-all opaque legal warrant cuckold
  02/07/12
(no homily)
appetizing big-titted orchestra pit new version
  02/07/12
Pollock could also have painted really well in a more tradit...
bat-shit-crazy hospital
  02/07/12
Sounds like a hack to me. I could paint like Pollock. The gu...
diverse snowy dysfunction
  02/07/12
Jackson Pollock heralded the death of painting, all that's l...
Vibrant crusty school
  06/20/22
Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.
Nofapping library quadroon
  02/07/12
EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual
diverse snowy dysfunction
  02/07/12
I didn't say he was...his art is. Academics took over the ...
Nofapping library quadroon
  02/07/12
Ok. How would you interpret this painting? http://thefron...
diverse snowy dysfunction
  02/07/12
I'm not an art critic. I'm a critic of art critics.
Nofapping library quadroon
  02/07/12
lol MagicEye noob
fragrant charcoal resort puppy
  02/07/12
Well that was uninformed
Abnormal deer antler
  02/07/12
basically modern libs think intellectualism means whatever w...
aromatic splenetic coldplay fan
  02/07/12
wow cr
Mint principal's office dopamine
  02/07/12
he took a line of thinking to its logical extreme, and ended...
Ungodly set organic girlfriend
  02/07/12
TITCR
diverse snowy dysfunction
  02/07/12
weve moved on: http://i.imgur.com/P8OAw.jpg now thats a...
Razzle alpha roast beef
  02/07/12
conceptual art, truly, is art for the masses, if they could ...
Vibrant crusty school
  02/07/12
banksy is the only artist who engages real people
Razzle alpha roast beef
  02/07/12
I think Pollock paintings are beautiful. They're a sight to ...
Wild School Cafeteria Boltzmann
  02/07/12
It's a very spiritual place and you definitely should.
Nofapping library quadroon
  02/07/12
LOL, just LOL.
diverse snowy dysfunction
  02/07/12
If you choose to view art only in terms of its achievement a...
Wild School Cafeteria Boltzmann
  02/07/12
Separate the art from the artist = that looks like it was dr...
Racy mustard circlehead
  02/07/12
Rothkos are really impressive in person -- images like that ...
know-it-all opaque legal warrant cuckold
  02/07/12
Agree it's much different, many of these paintings are huge ...
Aquamarine spectacular plaza
  02/07/12
I absolutely love Rothko too. What do you think about Mothe...
sepia razzmatazz garrison jap
  06/20/22
great, but the post-war intellectual milieu from which his i...
adventurous sooty pozpig chapel
  02/07/12
If it doesn't have a shiny baby Jebus I ain't lookin'
Chocolate Home Roommate
  02/07/12
the credited summary if u mad about this: http://www.tom...
Razzle alpha roast beef
  02/07/12
somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash
Racy mustard circlehead
  02/07/12
Now THIS is painting: http://www.paintinghere.com/UploadPic...
know-it-all opaque legal warrant cuckold
  02/07/12
Oh What a Painter!
appetizing big-titted orchestra pit new version
  02/07/12
IMO getting MAD in this day and age about Jackson fucking Po...
know-it-all opaque legal warrant cuckold
  02/07/12
one of the more credited poasts i've seen in 10 years on thi...
appetizing big-titted orchestra pit new version
  02/07/12
link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?
sepia razzmatazz garrison jap
  06/20/22
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/02/29/arts/00newartist1...
Sapphire mildly autistic menage place of business
  06/20/22
lol. I was being serious
sepia razzmatazz garrison jap
  06/20/22
big fan
mischievous fat ankles
  06/20/22
...
hilarious vigorous meetinghouse idea he suggested
  06/20/22
movie on him on netflix
poppy cruise ship sex offender
  02/07/12
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-...
Low-t Piazza
  06/20/22
Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?
floppy dilemma rigpig
  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: diverse snowy dysfunction

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: diverse snowy dysfunction

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: green deranged telephone community account

that's pretty dope

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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:07 PM
Author: seedy mental disorder

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))



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:07 PM
Author: Vibrant crusty school

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: diverse snowy dysfunction

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: seedy mental disorder

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: Vibrant crusty school

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: seedy mental disorder

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: Vibrant crusty school

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: Vibrant crusty school

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: Nofapping library quadroon

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: know-it-all opaque legal warrant cuckold

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: appetizing big-titted orchestra pit new version

(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: bat-shit-crazy hospital

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: diverse snowy dysfunction

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: Vibrant crusty school

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: Nofapping library quadroon

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: diverse snowy dysfunction

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: Nofapping library quadroon

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: diverse snowy dysfunction

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: Nofapping library quadroon

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: fragrant charcoal resort puppy

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: Abnormal deer antler

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: aromatic splenetic coldplay fan

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: Mint principal's office dopamine

wow cr

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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: Ungodly set organic girlfriend

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: diverse snowy dysfunction

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: Razzle alpha roast beef

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: Vibrant crusty school

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: Razzle alpha roast beef

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: Wild School Cafeteria Boltzmann

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: Nofapping library quadroon

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: diverse snowy dysfunction

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: Wild School Cafeteria Boltzmann

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: Racy mustard circlehead

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: know-it-all opaque legal warrant cuckold

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: Aquamarine spectacular plaza

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: sepia razzmatazz garrison jap

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: adventurous sooty pozpig chapel

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: Chocolate Home Roommate

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: Razzle alpha roast beef

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: Racy mustard circlehead

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: know-it-all opaque legal warrant cuckold

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: appetizing big-titted orchestra pit new version

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: know-it-all opaque legal warrant cuckold

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: appetizing big-titted orchestra pit new version

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: sepia razzmatazz garrison jap

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: Sapphire mildly autistic menage place of business

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: sepia razzmatazz garrison jap

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: mischievous fat ankles

big fan

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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: hilarious vigorous meetinghouse idea he suggested



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:13 PM
Author: poppy cruise ship sex offender

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: Low-t Piazza

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: floppy dilemma rigpig

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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