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Jackson Pollock: great artist or flame?

Anyone can throw paint on a canvas. A five year old could do...
histrionic alcoholic gas station
  02/07/12
Typical Jackson Pollock painting: http://www.ibiblio.org/...
histrionic alcoholic gas station
  02/07/12
that's pretty dope
naked disrespectful stain skinny woman
  02/07/12
he painted in like the 40s dood, most people had never even ...
Stirring learning disabled old irish cottage
  02/07/12
...
Bill Richmond
  05/03/26
great cuzzz his art broke the bonds of figurative art, relea...
irradiated garnet factory reset button
  02/07/12
LOL @ throwing random colors at a canvas and calling it figu...
histrionic alcoholic gas station
  02/07/12
dcpoast can go fuck the wrong end of a tiger shark, but lol ...
Stirring learning disabled old irish cottage
  02/07/12
u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity
irradiated garnet factory reset button
  02/07/12
actually i'm just expressing my highly informed opinion that...
Stirring learning disabled old irish cottage
  02/07/12
ur beautiful when ur hungry
irradiated garnet factory reset button
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism is about a new birth of freedom in se...
irradiated garnet factory reset button
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism and nearly all avant garde art is act...
Haunting Lascivious Azn Den
  02/07/12
Um, that hasn't been true for like 50 years.
Painfully honest gay office
  02/07/12
(no homily)
curious startled box office marketing idea
  02/07/12
Pollock could also have painted really well in a more tradit...
flatulent space
  02/07/12
Sounds like a hack to me. I could paint like Pollock. The gu...
histrionic alcoholic gas station
  02/07/12
Jackson Pollock heralded the death of painting, all that's l...
irradiated garnet factory reset button
  06/20/22
Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.
Haunting Lascivious Azn Den
  02/07/12
EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual
histrionic alcoholic gas station
  02/07/12
I didn't say he was...his art is. Academics took over the ...
Haunting Lascivious Azn Den
  02/07/12
Ok. How would you interpret this painting? http://thefron...
histrionic alcoholic gas station
  02/07/12
I'm not an art critic. I'm a critic of art critics.
Haunting Lascivious Azn Den
  02/07/12
lol MagicEye noob
autistic slap-happy location
  02/07/12
Well that was uninformed
Translucent area police squad
  02/07/12
basically modern libs think intellectualism means whatever w...
low-t ultramarine set people who are hurt
  02/07/12
wow cr
Flickering twinkling ticket booth
  02/07/12
he took a line of thinking to its logical extreme, and ended...
sable cracking institution twinkling uncleanness
  02/07/12
TITCR
histrionic alcoholic gas station
  02/07/12
weve moved on: http://i.imgur.com/P8OAw.jpg now thats a...
bull headed racy depressive macaca
  02/07/12
conceptual art, truly, is art for the masses, if they could ...
irradiated garnet factory reset button
  02/07/12
banksy is the only artist who engages real people
bull headed racy depressive macaca
  02/07/12
I think Pollock paintings are beautiful. They're a sight to ...
deranged famous landscape painting messiness
  02/07/12
It's a very spiritual place and you definitely should.
Haunting Lascivious Azn Den
  02/07/12
LOL, just LOL.
histrionic alcoholic gas station
  02/07/12
If you choose to view art only in terms of its achievement a...
deranged famous landscape painting messiness
  02/07/12
Separate the art from the artist = that looks like it was dr...
Wonderful fluffy boistinker range
  02/07/12
Rothkos are really impressive in person -- images like that ...
Painfully honest gay office
  02/07/12
Agree it's much different, many of these paintings are huge ...
Lavender Home
  02/07/12
I absolutely love Rothko too. What do you think about Mothe...
Bat shit crazy station mad-dog skullcap
  06/20/22
great, but the post-war intellectual milieu from which his i...
Slimy gaped death wish
  02/07/12
If it doesn't have a shiny baby Jebus I ain't lookin'
Magical hairraiser temple
  02/07/12
the credited summary if u mad about this: http://www.tom...
bull headed racy depressive macaca
  02/07/12
somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash
Wonderful fluffy boistinker range
  02/07/12
Now THIS is painting: http://www.paintinghere.com/UploadPic...
Painfully honest gay office
  02/07/12
Oh What a Painter!
curious startled box office marketing idea
  02/07/12
IMO getting MAD in this day and age about Jackson fucking Po...
Painfully honest gay office
  02/07/12
one of the more credited poasts i've seen in 10 years on thi...
curious startled box office marketing idea
  02/07/12
link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?
Bat shit crazy station mad-dog skullcap
  06/20/22
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/02/29/arts/00newartist1...
bisexual glassy house jap
  06/20/22
lol. I was being serious
Bat shit crazy station mad-dog skullcap
  06/20/22
big fan
Frum Bistre Becky
  06/20/22
...
Cerebral splenetic bawdyhouse
  06/20/22
movie on him on netflix
Unhinged Quadroon Public Bath
  02/07/12
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-...
Avocado charismatic school cafeteria organic girlfriend
  06/20/22
Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?
galvanic kitty chapel
  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: histrionic alcoholic gas station

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...id#19916184)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:05 PM
Author: histrionic alcoholic gas station

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...id#19916191)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: naked disrespectful stain skinny woman

that's pretty dope

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:07 PM
Author: Stirring learning disabled old irish cottage

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...id#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...id#49862225)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:07 PM
Author: irradiated garnet factory reset button

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...id#19916202)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:08 PM
Author: histrionic alcoholic gas station

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...id#19916206)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:11 PM
Author: Stirring learning disabled old irish cottage

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...id#19916216)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:14 PM
Author: irradiated garnet factory reset button

u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:24 PM
Author: Stirring learning disabled old irish cottage

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...id#19916279)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:26 PM
Author: irradiated garnet factory reset button

ur beautiful when ur hungry

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: irradiated garnet factory reset button

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...id#19916221)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:18 PM
Author: Haunting Lascivious Azn Den

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...id#19916252)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:09 PM
Author: Painfully honest gay office

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:48 PM
Author: curious startled box office marketing idea

(no homily)

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:14 PM
Author: flatulent space

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...id#19916234)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:15 PM
Author: histrionic alcoholic gas station

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...id#19916239)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: irradiated garnet factory reset button

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...id#44713874)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:10 PM
Author: Haunting Lascivious Azn Den

Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: histrionic alcoholic gas station

EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:15 PM
Author: Haunting Lascivious Azn Den

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...id#19916242)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:17 PM
Author: histrionic alcoholic gas station

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...id#19916249)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: Haunting Lascivious Azn Den

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...id#19916258)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:30 PM
Author: autistic slap-happy location

lol MagicEye noob

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: Translucent area police squad

Well that was uninformed

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:17 PM
Author: low-t ultramarine set people who are hurt

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...id#19916248)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:47 PM
Author: Flickering twinkling ticket booth

wow cr

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: sable cracking institution twinkling uncleanness

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...id#19916256)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:20 PM
Author: histrionic alcoholic gas station

TITCR

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:21 PM
Author: bull headed racy depressive macaca

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

now thats art

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:24 PM
Author: irradiated garnet factory reset button

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...id#19916280)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:46 PM
Author: bull headed racy depressive macaca

banksy is the only artist who engages real people

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:30 PM
Author: deranged famous landscape painting messiness

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...id#19916298)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:31 PM
Author: Haunting Lascivious Azn Den

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:34 PM
Author: histrionic alcoholic gas station

LOL, just LOL.

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:41 PM
Author: deranged famous landscape painting messiness

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...id#19916344)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:44 PM
Author: Wonderful fluffy boistinker range

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...id#19919110)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:06 PM
Author: Painfully honest gay office

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...id#19919331)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:11 PM
Author: Lavender Home

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...id#19919353)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:00 PM
Author: Bat shit crazy station mad-dog skullcap

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...id#44713666)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:41 PM
Author: Slimy gaped death wish

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...id#19919089)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:44 PM
Author: Magical hairraiser temple

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...id#19919114)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:46 PM
Author: bull headed racy depressive macaca

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...id#19919139)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:49 PM
Author: Wonderful fluffy boistinker range

somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:07 PM
Author: Painfully honest gay office

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...id#19919333)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:42 PM
Author: curious startled box office marketing idea

Oh What a Painter!

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:12 PM
Author: Painfully honest gay office

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...id#19919361)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:43 PM
Author: curious startled box office marketing idea

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...id#19919600)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:03 PM
Author: Bat shit crazy station mad-dog skullcap

link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:07 PM
Author: bisexual glassy house jap

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...id#44713691)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:41 PM
Author: Bat shit crazy station mad-dog skullcap

lol. I was being serious

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: Frum Bistre Becky

big fan

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: Cerebral splenetic bawdyhouse



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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:13 PM
Author: Unhinged Quadroon Public Bath

movie on him on netflix

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 3:23 PM
Author: Avocado charismatic school cafeteria organic girlfriend

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...id#44713016)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:48 PM
Author: galvanic kitty chapel

Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?

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