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Jackson Pollock: great artist or flame?

Anyone can throw paint on a canvas. A five year old could do...
charcoal orchestra pit volcanic crater
  02/07/12
Typical Jackson Pollock painting: http://www.ibiblio.org/...
charcoal orchestra pit volcanic crater
  02/07/12
that's pretty dope
misunderstood chartreuse lodge affirmative action
  02/07/12
he painted in like the 40s dood, most people had never even ...
Cruel-hearted double fault
  02/07/12
...
Bill Richmond
  05/03/26
great cuzzz his art broke the bonds of figurative art, relea...
dun area blood rage
  02/07/12
LOL @ throwing random colors at a canvas and calling it figu...
charcoal orchestra pit volcanic crater
  02/07/12
dcpoast can go fuck the wrong end of a tiger shark, but lol ...
Cruel-hearted double fault
  02/07/12
u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity
dun area blood rage
  02/07/12
actually i'm just expressing my highly informed opinion that...
Cruel-hearted double fault
  02/07/12
ur beautiful when ur hungry
dun area blood rage
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism is about a new birth of freedom in se...
dun area blood rage
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism and nearly all avant garde art is act...
Odious toaster
  02/07/12
Um, that hasn't been true for like 50 years.
know-it-all mustard tanning salon trust fund
  02/07/12
(no homily)
lascivious gay theater stage
  02/07/12
Pollock could also have painted really well in a more tradit...
galvanic point immigrant
  02/07/12
Sounds like a hack to me. I could paint like Pollock. The gu...
charcoal orchestra pit volcanic crater
  02/07/12
Jackson Pollock heralded the death of painting, all that's l...
dun area blood rage
  06/20/22
Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.
Odious toaster
  02/07/12
EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual
charcoal orchestra pit volcanic crater
  02/07/12
I didn't say he was...his art is. Academics took over the ...
Odious toaster
  02/07/12
Ok. How would you interpret this painting? http://thefron...
charcoal orchestra pit volcanic crater
  02/07/12
I'm not an art critic. I'm a critic of art critics.
Odious toaster
  02/07/12
lol MagicEye noob
Bearded Mood
  02/07/12
Well that was uninformed
Talented Wild Incel
  02/07/12
basically modern libs think intellectualism means whatever w...
Bisexual Multi-colored Doctorate
  02/07/12
wow cr
jet stage macaca
  02/07/12
he took a line of thinking to its logical extreme, and ended...
aggressive cuckoldry
  02/07/12
TITCR
charcoal orchestra pit volcanic crater
  02/07/12
weve moved on: http://i.imgur.com/P8OAw.jpg now thats a...
mauve thriller idea he suggested
  02/07/12
conceptual art, truly, is art for the masses, if they could ...
dun area blood rage
  02/07/12
banksy is the only artist who engages real people
mauve thriller idea he suggested
  02/07/12
I think Pollock paintings are beautiful. They're a sight to ...
titillating set place of business
  02/07/12
It's a very spiritual place and you definitely should.
Odious toaster
  02/07/12
LOL, just LOL.
charcoal orchestra pit volcanic crater
  02/07/12
If you choose to view art only in terms of its achievement a...
titillating set place of business
  02/07/12
Separate the art from the artist = that looks like it was dr...
Arousing soggy den
  02/07/12
Rothkos are really impressive in person -- images like that ...
know-it-all mustard tanning salon trust fund
  02/07/12
Agree it's much different, many of these paintings are huge ...
fantasy-prone hilarious hospital deer antler
  02/07/12
I absolutely love Rothko too. What do you think about Mothe...
chrome step-uncle's house
  06/20/22
great, but the post-war intellectual milieu from which his i...
appetizing hunting ground
  02/07/12
If it doesn't have a shiny baby Jebus I ain't lookin'
razzle-dazzle lake organic girlfriend
  02/07/12
the credited summary if u mad about this: http://www.tom...
mauve thriller idea he suggested
  02/07/12
somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash
Arousing soggy den
  02/07/12
Now THIS is painting: http://www.paintinghere.com/UploadPic...
know-it-all mustard tanning salon trust fund
  02/07/12
Oh What a Painter!
lascivious gay theater stage
  02/07/12
IMO getting MAD in this day and age about Jackson fucking Po...
know-it-all mustard tanning salon trust fund
  02/07/12
one of the more credited poasts i've seen in 10 years on thi...
lascivious gay theater stage
  02/07/12
link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?
chrome step-uncle's house
  06/20/22
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/02/29/arts/00newartist1...
rusted racy state
  06/20/22
lol. I was being serious
chrome step-uncle's house
  06/20/22
big fan
Exciting Submissive Clown Friendly Grandma
  06/20/22
...
Poppy stead
  06/20/22
movie on him on netflix
out-of-control bipolar new version
  02/07/12
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-...
at-the-ready high-end locus black woman
  06/20/22
Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?
histrionic apoplectic prole
  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: charcoal orchestra pit volcanic crater

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: charcoal orchestra pit volcanic crater

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: misunderstood chartreuse lodge affirmative action

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: Cruel-hearted double fault

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: dun area blood rage

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: charcoal orchestra pit volcanic crater

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: Cruel-hearted double fault

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: dun area blood rage

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: Cruel-hearted double fault

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: dun area blood rage

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: dun area blood rage

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: Odious toaster

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: know-it-all mustard tanning salon trust fund

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: lascivious gay theater stage

(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: galvanic point immigrant

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: charcoal orchestra pit volcanic crater

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: dun area blood rage

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: Odious toaster

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: charcoal orchestra pit volcanic crater

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: Odious toaster

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: charcoal orchestra pit volcanic crater

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: Odious toaster

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: Bearded Mood

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: Talented Wild Incel

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: Bisexual Multi-colored Doctorate

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: jet stage macaca

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: aggressive cuckoldry

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: charcoal orchestra pit volcanic crater

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: mauve thriller idea he suggested

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: dun area blood rage

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: mauve thriller idea he suggested

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: titillating set place of business

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: Odious toaster

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: charcoal orchestra pit volcanic crater

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: titillating set place of business

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: Arousing soggy den

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: know-it-all mustard tanning salon trust fund

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: fantasy-prone hilarious hospital deer antler

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: chrome step-uncle's house

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: appetizing hunting ground

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: razzle-dazzle lake organic girlfriend

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: mauve thriller idea he suggested

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: Arousing soggy den

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: know-it-all mustard tanning salon trust fund

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: lascivious gay theater stage

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: know-it-all mustard tanning salon trust fund

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: lascivious gay theater stage

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: chrome step-uncle's house

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: rusted racy state

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: chrome step-uncle's house

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: Exciting Submissive Clown Friendly Grandma

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: Poppy stead



(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: out-of-control bipolar new version

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: at-the-ready high-end locus black woman

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: histrionic apoplectic prole

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)