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Jackson Pollock: great artist or flame?

Anyone can throw paint on a canvas. A five year old could do...
Peach Razzle Sound Barrier Shrine
  02/07/12
Typical Jackson Pollock painting: http://www.ibiblio.org/...
Peach Razzle Sound Barrier Shrine
  02/07/12
that's pretty dope
ungodly big center
  02/07/12
he painted in like the 40s dood, most people had never even ...
Crimson hunting ground
  02/07/12
...
Bill Richmond
  05/03/26
great cuzzz his art broke the bonds of figurative art, relea...
glittery scarlet space keepsake machete
  02/07/12
LOL @ throwing random colors at a canvas and calling it figu...
Peach Razzle Sound Barrier Shrine
  02/07/12
dcpoast can go fuck the wrong end of a tiger shark, but lol ...
Crimson hunting ground
  02/07/12
u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity
glittery scarlet space keepsake machete
  02/07/12
actually i'm just expressing my highly informed opinion that...
Crimson hunting ground
  02/07/12
ur beautiful when ur hungry
glittery scarlet space keepsake machete
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism is about a new birth of freedom in se...
glittery scarlet space keepsake machete
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism and nearly all avant garde art is act...
crawly appetizing hairy legs roommate
  02/07/12
Um, that hasn't been true for like 50 years.
Flatulent Hairless Piazza
  02/07/12
(no homily)
Crusty thirsty meetinghouse gaming laptop
  02/07/12
Pollock could also have painted really well in a more tradit...
Aggressive volcanic crater
  02/07/12
Sounds like a hack to me. I could paint like Pollock. The gu...
Peach Razzle Sound Barrier Shrine
  02/07/12
Jackson Pollock heralded the death of painting, all that's l...
glittery scarlet space keepsake machete
  06/20/22
Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.
crawly appetizing hairy legs roommate
  02/07/12
EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual
Peach Razzle Sound Barrier Shrine
  02/07/12
I didn't say he was...his art is. Academics took over the ...
crawly appetizing hairy legs roommate
  02/07/12
Ok. How would you interpret this painting? http://thefron...
Peach Razzle Sound Barrier Shrine
  02/07/12
I'm not an art critic. I'm a critic of art critics.
crawly appetizing hairy legs roommate
  02/07/12
lol MagicEye noob
Puce halford azn
  02/07/12
Well that was uninformed
bright bearded ceo dragon
  02/07/12
basically modern libs think intellectualism means whatever w...
Fragrant temple filthpig
  02/07/12
wow cr
Concupiscible Sapphire Home
  02/07/12
he took a line of thinking to its logical extreme, and ended...
Pea-brained titillating theater stage kitty cat
  02/07/12
TITCR
Peach Razzle Sound Barrier Shrine
  02/07/12
weve moved on: http://i.imgur.com/P8OAw.jpg now thats a...
Startling pistol
  02/07/12
conceptual art, truly, is art for the masses, if they could ...
glittery scarlet space keepsake machete
  02/07/12
banksy is the only artist who engages real people
Startling pistol
  02/07/12
I think Pollock paintings are beautiful. They're a sight to ...
transparent greedy mental disorder regret
  02/07/12
It's a very spiritual place and you definitely should.
crawly appetizing hairy legs roommate
  02/07/12
LOL, just LOL.
Peach Razzle Sound Barrier Shrine
  02/07/12
If you choose to view art only in terms of its achievement a...
transparent greedy mental disorder regret
  02/07/12
Separate the art from the artist = that looks like it was dr...
bipolar place of business friendly grandma
  02/07/12
Rothkos are really impressive in person -- images like that ...
Flatulent Hairless Piazza
  02/07/12
Agree it's much different, many of these paintings are huge ...
nofapping aphrodisiac mother associate
  02/07/12
I absolutely love Rothko too. What do you think about Mothe...
Wonderful mexican useless brakes
  06/20/22
great, but the post-war intellectual milieu from which his i...
spruce site
  02/07/12
If it doesn't have a shiny baby Jebus I ain't lookin'
clear learning disabled market boiling water
  02/07/12
the credited summary if u mad about this: http://www.tom...
Startling pistol
  02/07/12
somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash
bipolar place of business friendly grandma
  02/07/12
Now THIS is painting: http://www.paintinghere.com/UploadPic...
Flatulent Hairless Piazza
  02/07/12
Oh What a Painter!
Crusty thirsty meetinghouse gaming laptop
  02/07/12
IMO getting MAD in this day and age about Jackson fucking Po...
Flatulent Hairless Piazza
  02/07/12
one of the more credited poasts i've seen in 10 years on thi...
Crusty thirsty meetinghouse gaming laptop
  02/07/12
link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?
Wonderful mexican useless brakes
  06/20/22
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/02/29/arts/00newartist1...
Vermilion roast beef trust fund
  06/20/22
lol. I was being serious
Wonderful mexican useless brakes
  06/20/22
big fan
coral thriller forum striped hyena
  06/20/22
...
Iridescent prole
  06/20/22
movie on him on netflix
Ivory sweet tailpipe fat ankles
  02/07/12
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-...
Confused Henna Affirmative Action Cuckoldry
  06/20/22
Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?
Supple faggotry
  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: Peach Razzle Sound Barrier Shrine

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/en-en/#19916184)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:05 PM
Author: Peach Razzle Sound Barrier Shrine

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/en-en/#19916191)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: ungodly big center

that's pretty dope

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:07 PM
Author: Crimson hunting ground

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/en-en/#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/en-en/#49862225)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:07 PM
Author: glittery scarlet space keepsake machete

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/en-en/#19916202)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:08 PM
Author: Peach Razzle Sound Barrier Shrine

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/en-en/#19916206)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:11 PM
Author: Crimson hunting ground

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/en-en/#19916216)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:14 PM
Author: glittery scarlet space keepsake machete

u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:24 PM
Author: Crimson hunting ground

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/en-en/#19916279)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:26 PM
Author: glittery scarlet space keepsake machete

ur beautiful when ur hungry

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: glittery scarlet space keepsake machete

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/en-en/#19916221)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:18 PM
Author: crawly appetizing hairy legs 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=2/en-en/#19916252)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:09 PM
Author: Flatulent Hairless Piazza

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:48 PM
Author: Crusty thirsty meetinghouse gaming laptop

(no homily)

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:14 PM
Author: Aggressive volcanic crater

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/en-en/#19916234)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:15 PM
Author: Peach Razzle Sound Barrier Shrine

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/en-en/#19916239)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: glittery scarlet space keepsake machete

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/en-en/#44713874)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:10 PM
Author: crawly appetizing hairy legs roommate

Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: Peach Razzle Sound Barrier Shrine

EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:15 PM
Author: crawly appetizing hairy legs 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=2/en-en/#19916242)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:17 PM
Author: Peach Razzle Sound Barrier Shrine

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/en-en/#19916249)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: crawly appetizing hairy legs 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=2/en-en/#19916258)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:30 PM
Author: Puce halford azn

lol MagicEye noob

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: bright bearded ceo dragon

Well that was uninformed

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:17 PM
Author: Fragrant temple filthpig

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/en-en/#19916248)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:47 PM
Author: Concupiscible Sapphire Home

wow cr

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: Pea-brained titillating theater stage kitty cat

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/en-en/#19916256)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:20 PM
Author: Peach Razzle Sound Barrier Shrine

TITCR

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:21 PM
Author: Startling pistol

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

now thats art

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:24 PM
Author: glittery scarlet space keepsake machete

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/en-en/#19916280)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:46 PM
Author: Startling pistol

banksy is the only artist who engages real people

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:30 PM
Author: transparent greedy mental disorder regret

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/en-en/#19916298)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:31 PM
Author: crawly appetizing hairy legs roommate

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:34 PM
Author: Peach Razzle Sound Barrier Shrine

LOL, just LOL.

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:41 PM
Author: transparent greedy mental disorder regret

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/en-en/#19916344)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:44 PM
Author: bipolar place of business friendly grandma

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/en-en/#19919110)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:06 PM
Author: Flatulent Hairless Piazza

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/en-en/#19919331)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:11 PM
Author: nofapping aphrodisiac mother associate

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/en-en/#19919353)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:00 PM
Author: Wonderful mexican useless brakes

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/en-en/#44713666)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:41 PM
Author: spruce site

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/en-en/#19919089)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:44 PM
Author: clear learning disabled market boiling water

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/en-en/#19919114)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:46 PM
Author: Startling pistol

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/en-en/#19919139)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:49 PM
Author: bipolar place of business friendly grandma

somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:07 PM
Author: Flatulent Hairless Piazza

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/en-en/#19919333)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:42 PM
Author: Crusty thirsty meetinghouse gaming laptop

Oh What a Painter!

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:12 PM
Author: Flatulent Hairless Piazza

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/en-en/#19919361)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:43 PM
Author: Crusty thirsty meetinghouse gaming laptop

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/en-en/#19919600)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:03 PM
Author: Wonderful mexican useless brakes

link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:07 PM
Author: Vermilion roast beef trust fund

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/en-en/#44713691)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:41 PM
Author: Wonderful mexican useless brakes

lol. I was being serious

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: coral thriller forum striped hyena

big fan

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: Iridescent prole



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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:13 PM
Author: Ivory sweet tailpipe fat ankles

movie on him on netflix

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 3:23 PM
Author: Confused Henna Affirmative Action 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=2/en-en/#44713016)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:48 PM
Author: Supple faggotry

Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?

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