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Jackson Pollock: great artist or flame?

Anyone can throw paint on a canvas. A five year old could do...
pearly bawdyhouse
  02/07/12
Typical Jackson Pollock painting: http://www.ibiblio.org/...
pearly bawdyhouse
  02/07/12
that's pretty dope
Vigorous Chapel
  02/07/12
he painted in like the 40s dood, most people had never even ...
thriller white site
  02/07/12
...
Bill Richmond
  05/03/26
great cuzzz his art broke the bonds of figurative art, relea...
talented slimy scourge upon the earth
  02/07/12
LOL @ throwing random colors at a canvas and calling it figu...
pearly bawdyhouse
  02/07/12
dcpoast can go fuck the wrong end of a tiger shark, but lol ...
thriller white site
  02/07/12
u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity
talented slimy scourge upon the earth
  02/07/12
actually i'm just expressing my highly informed opinion that...
thriller white site
  02/07/12
ur beautiful when ur hungry
talented slimy scourge upon the earth
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism is about a new birth of freedom in se...
talented slimy scourge upon the earth
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism and nearly all avant garde art is act...
sticky trump supporter
  02/07/12
Um, that hasn't been true for like 50 years.
rose contagious brunch voyeur
  02/07/12
(no homily)
Adventurous sable senate
  02/07/12
Pollock could also have painted really well in a more tradit...
Disrespectful know-it-all national internal respiration
  02/07/12
Sounds like a hack to me. I could paint like Pollock. The gu...
pearly bawdyhouse
  02/07/12
Jackson Pollock heralded the death of painting, all that's l...
talented slimy scourge upon the earth
  06/20/22
Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.
sticky trump supporter
  02/07/12
EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual
pearly bawdyhouse
  02/07/12
I didn't say he was...his art is. Academics took over the ...
sticky trump supporter
  02/07/12
Ok. How would you interpret this painting? http://thefron...
pearly bawdyhouse
  02/07/12
I'm not an art critic. I'm a critic of art critics.
sticky trump supporter
  02/07/12
lol MagicEye noob
beady-eyed hell
  02/07/12
Well that was uninformed
floppy fanboi fortuitous meteor
  02/07/12
basically modern libs think intellectualism means whatever w...
Brilliant State Death Wish
  02/07/12
wow cr
Hairraiser bronze kitchen
  02/07/12
he took a line of thinking to its logical extreme, and ended...
Rambunctious Church Organic Girlfriend
  02/07/12
TITCR
pearly bawdyhouse
  02/07/12
weve moved on: http://i.imgur.com/P8OAw.jpg now thats a...
aphrodisiac dun casino blood rage
  02/07/12
conceptual art, truly, is art for the masses, if they could ...
talented slimy scourge upon the earth
  02/07/12
banksy is the only artist who engages real people
aphrodisiac dun casino blood rage
  02/07/12
I think Pollock paintings are beautiful. They're a sight to ...
splenetic galvanic point
  02/07/12
It's a very spiritual place and you definitely should.
sticky trump supporter
  02/07/12
LOL, just LOL.
pearly bawdyhouse
  02/07/12
If you choose to view art only in terms of its achievement a...
splenetic galvanic point
  02/07/12
Separate the art from the artist = that looks like it was dr...
Razzle crimson chad
  02/07/12
Rothkos are really impressive in person -- images like that ...
rose contagious brunch voyeur
  02/07/12
Agree it's much different, many of these paintings are huge ...
Exhilarant insanely creepy temple
  02/07/12
I absolutely love Rothko too. What do you think about Mothe...
peach public bath
  06/20/22
great, but the post-war intellectual milieu from which his i...
cracking karate
  02/07/12
If it doesn't have a shiny baby Jebus I ain't lookin'
Exciting rusted milk
  02/07/12
the credited summary if u mad about this: http://www.tom...
aphrodisiac dun casino blood rage
  02/07/12
somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash
Razzle crimson chad
  02/07/12
Now THIS is painting: http://www.paintinghere.com/UploadPic...
rose contagious brunch voyeur
  02/07/12
Oh What a Painter!
Adventurous sable senate
  02/07/12
IMO getting MAD in this day and age about Jackson fucking Po...
rose contagious brunch voyeur
  02/07/12
one of the more credited poasts i've seen in 10 years on thi...
Adventurous sable senate
  02/07/12
link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?
peach public bath
  06/20/22
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/02/29/arts/00newartist1...
Pontificating diverse trailer park mad cow disease
  06/20/22
lol. I was being serious
peach public bath
  06/20/22
big fan
violent bearded property
  06/20/22
...
Umber bespoke legend
  06/20/22
movie on him on netflix
Anal Masturbator Parlour
  02/07/12
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-...
harsh bbw locus
  06/20/22
Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?
Amber Effete Dysfunction Dopamine
  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: pearly bawdyhouse

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=2в#19916184)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:05 PM
Author: pearly bawdyhouse

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=2в#19916191)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: Vigorous Chapel

that's pretty dope

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:07 PM
Author: thriller white site

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=2в#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=2в#49862225)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:07 PM
Author: talented slimy scourge upon the earth

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=2в#19916202)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:08 PM
Author: pearly bawdyhouse

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=2в#19916206)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:11 PM
Author: thriller white site

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=2в#19916216)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:14 PM
Author: talented slimy scourge upon the earth

u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:24 PM
Author: thriller white site

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=2в#19916279)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:26 PM
Author: talented slimy scourge upon the earth

ur beautiful when ur hungry

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: talented slimy scourge upon the earth

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=2в#19916221)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:18 PM
Author: sticky trump supporter

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=2в#19916252)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:09 PM
Author: rose contagious brunch voyeur

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:48 PM
Author: Adventurous sable senate

(no homily)

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:14 PM
Author: Disrespectful know-it-all national internal respiration

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=2в#19916234)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:15 PM
Author: pearly bawdyhouse

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=2в#19916239)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: talented slimy scourge upon the earth

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=2в#44713874)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:10 PM
Author: sticky trump supporter

Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: pearly bawdyhouse

EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:15 PM
Author: sticky trump supporter

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=2в#19916242)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:17 PM
Author: pearly bawdyhouse

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=2в#19916249)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: sticky trump supporter

I'm not an art critic. I'm a critic of art critics.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2в#19916258)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:30 PM
Author: beady-eyed hell

lol MagicEye noob

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: floppy fanboi fortuitous meteor

Well that was uninformed

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:17 PM
Author: Brilliant State Death Wish

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=2в#19916248)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:47 PM
Author: Hairraiser bronze kitchen

wow cr

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: Rambunctious Church 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=2в#19916256)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:20 PM
Author: pearly bawdyhouse

TITCR

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:21 PM
Author: aphrodisiac dun casino blood rage

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

now thats art

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:24 PM
Author: talented slimy scourge upon the earth

conceptual art, truly, is art for the masses, if they could only see

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2в#19916280)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:46 PM
Author: aphrodisiac dun casino blood rage

banksy is the only artist who engages real people

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:30 PM
Author: splenetic galvanic point

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=2в#19916298)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:31 PM
Author: sticky trump supporter

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:34 PM
Author: pearly bawdyhouse

LOL, just LOL.

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:41 PM
Author: splenetic galvanic point

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=2в#19916344)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:44 PM
Author: Razzle crimson chad

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=2в#19919110)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:06 PM
Author: rose contagious brunch voyeur

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=2в#19919331)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:11 PM
Author: Exhilarant insanely creepy temple

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=2в#19919353)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:00 PM
Author: peach public bath

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=2в#44713666)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:41 PM
Author: cracking karate

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=2в#19919089)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:44 PM
Author: Exciting rusted milk

If it doesn't have a shiny baby Jebus I ain't lookin'

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2в#19919114)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:46 PM
Author: aphrodisiac dun casino blood rage

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=2в#19919139)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:49 PM
Author: Razzle crimson chad

somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:07 PM
Author: rose contagious brunch voyeur

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=2в#19919333)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:42 PM
Author: Adventurous sable senate

Oh What a Painter!

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:12 PM
Author: rose contagious brunch voyeur

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=2в#19919361)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:43 PM
Author: Adventurous sable senate

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=2в#19919600)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:03 PM
Author: peach public bath

link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:07 PM
Author: Pontificating diverse trailer park mad cow disease

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/02/29/arts/00newartist1/00newartist1-videoSixteenByNineJumbo1600.jpg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1867840&forum_id=2в#44713691)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:41 PM
Author: peach public bath

lol. I was being serious

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: violent bearded property

big fan

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: Umber bespoke legend



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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:13 PM
Author: Anal Masturbator Parlour

movie on him on netflix

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 3:23 PM
Author: harsh bbw locus

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=2в#44713016)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:48 PM
Author: Amber Effete Dysfunction Dopamine

Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?

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