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Jackson Pollock: great artist or flame?

Anyone can throw paint on a canvas. A five year old could do...
Chest-beating Step-uncle's House
  02/07/12
Typical Jackson Pollock painting: http://www.ibiblio.org/...
Chest-beating Step-uncle's House
  02/07/12
that's pretty dope
Overrated amethyst windowlicker
  02/07/12
he painted in like the 40s dood, most people had never even ...
beta kitty senate
  02/07/12
...
Bill Richmond
  05/03/26
great cuzzz his art broke the bonds of figurative art, relea...
mischievous yarmulke
  02/07/12
LOL @ throwing random colors at a canvas and calling it figu...
Chest-beating Step-uncle's House
  02/07/12
dcpoast can go fuck the wrong end of a tiger shark, but lol ...
beta kitty senate
  02/07/12
u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity
mischievous yarmulke
  02/07/12
actually i'm just expressing my highly informed opinion that...
beta kitty senate
  02/07/12
ur beautiful when ur hungry
mischievous yarmulke
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism is about a new birth of freedom in se...
mischievous yarmulke
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism and nearly all avant garde art is act...
Excitant partner selfie
  02/07/12
Um, that hasn't been true for like 50 years.
Maize base
  02/07/12
(no homily)
passionate aqua lettuce
  02/07/12
Pollock could also have painted really well in a more tradit...
blathering gold preventive strike
  02/07/12
Sounds like a hack to me. I could paint like Pollock. The gu...
Chest-beating Step-uncle's House
  02/07/12
Jackson Pollock heralded the death of painting, all that's l...
mischievous yarmulke
  06/20/22
Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.
Excitant partner selfie
  02/07/12
EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual
Chest-beating Step-uncle's House
  02/07/12
I didn't say he was...his art is. Academics took over the ...
Excitant partner selfie
  02/07/12
Ok. How would you interpret this painting? http://thefron...
Chest-beating Step-uncle's House
  02/07/12
I'm not an art critic. I'm a critic of art critics.
Excitant partner selfie
  02/07/12
lol MagicEye noob
Irradiated Lime Juggernaut
  02/07/12
Well that was uninformed
Trip pontificating space jewess
  02/07/12
basically modern libs think intellectualism means whatever w...
Mildly autistic sneaky criminal
  02/07/12
wow cr
Chestnut Appetizing Quadroon
  02/07/12
he took a line of thinking to its logical extreme, and ended...
Wonderful Bat Shit Crazy Hairy Legs
  02/07/12
TITCR
Chest-beating Step-uncle's House
  02/07/12
weve moved on: http://i.imgur.com/P8OAw.jpg now thats a...
Demanding deep potus
  02/07/12
conceptual art, truly, is art for the masses, if they could ...
mischievous yarmulke
  02/07/12
banksy is the only artist who engages real people
Demanding deep potus
  02/07/12
I think Pollock paintings are beautiful. They're a sight to ...
unholy opaque dopamine hunting ground
  02/07/12
It's a very spiritual place and you definitely should.
Excitant partner selfie
  02/07/12
LOL, just LOL.
Chest-beating Step-uncle's House
  02/07/12
If you choose to view art only in terms of its achievement a...
unholy opaque dopamine hunting ground
  02/07/12
Separate the art from the artist = that looks like it was dr...
Contagious area ceo
  02/07/12
Rothkos are really impressive in person -- images like that ...
Maize base
  02/07/12
Agree it's much different, many of these paintings are huge ...
Beady-eyed bbw
  02/07/12
I absolutely love Rothko too. What do you think about Mothe...
stimulating sanctuary stock car
  06/20/22
great, but the post-war intellectual milieu from which his i...
180 house milk
  02/07/12
If it doesn't have a shiny baby Jebus I ain't lookin'
Mint codepig multi-billionaire
  02/07/12
the credited summary if u mad about this: http://www.tom...
Demanding deep potus
  02/07/12
somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash
Contagious area ceo
  02/07/12
Now THIS is painting: http://www.paintinghere.com/UploadPic...
Maize base
  02/07/12
Oh What a Painter!
passionate aqua lettuce
  02/07/12
IMO getting MAD in this day and age about Jackson fucking Po...
Maize base
  02/07/12
one of the more credited poasts i've seen in 10 years on thi...
passionate aqua lettuce
  02/07/12
link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?
stimulating sanctuary stock car
  06/20/22
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/02/29/arts/00newartist1...
irate sandwich property
  06/20/22
lol. I was being serious
stimulating sanctuary stock car
  06/20/22
big fan
offensive twinkling uncleanness haunted graveyard
  06/20/22
...
Motley Honey-headed Marketing Idea
  06/20/22
movie on him on netflix
razzmatazz meetinghouse
  02/07/12
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-...
coral aromatic athletic conference
  06/20/22
Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?
Mentally impaired tattoo tanning salon
  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: Chest-beating Step-uncle's House

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: Chest-beating Step-uncle's House

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: Overrated amethyst windowlicker

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: beta kitty senate

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: mischievous yarmulke

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: Chest-beating Step-uncle's House

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: beta kitty senate

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: mischievous yarmulke

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: beta kitty senate

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: mischievous yarmulke

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: mischievous yarmulke

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: Excitant partner selfie

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: Maize base

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: passionate aqua lettuce

(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: blathering gold preventive strike

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: Chest-beating Step-uncle's House

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: mischievous yarmulke

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: Excitant partner selfie

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: Chest-beating Step-uncle's House

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: Excitant partner selfie

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: Chest-beating Step-uncle's House

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: Excitant partner selfie

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: Irradiated Lime Juggernaut

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: Trip pontificating space jewess

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: Mildly autistic sneaky criminal

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: Chestnut Appetizing Quadroon

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: Wonderful Bat Shit Crazy Hairy Legs

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: Chest-beating Step-uncle's House

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: Demanding deep potus

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: mischievous yarmulke

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: Demanding deep potus

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: unholy opaque dopamine hunting ground

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: Excitant partner selfie

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: Chest-beating Step-uncle's House

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: unholy opaque dopamine hunting ground

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: Contagious area ceo

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: Maize base

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: Beady-eyed bbw

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: stimulating sanctuary stock car

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: 180 house milk

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: Mint codepig multi-billionaire

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: Demanding deep potus

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: Contagious area ceo

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: Maize base

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: passionate aqua lettuce

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: Maize base

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: passionate aqua lettuce

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: stimulating sanctuary stock car

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: irate sandwich property

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: stimulating sanctuary stock car

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: offensive twinkling uncleanness haunted graveyard

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: Motley Honey-headed Marketing Idea



(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: razzmatazz meetinghouse

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: coral aromatic athletic conference

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: Mentally impaired tattoo tanning salon

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)