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Jackson Pollock: great artist or flame?

Anyone can throw paint on a canvas. A five year old could do...
Bonkers Supple Cruise Ship Headpube
  02/07/12
Typical Jackson Pollock painting: http://www.ibiblio.org/...
Bonkers Supple Cruise Ship Headpube
  02/07/12
that's pretty dope
Concupiscible gas station toaster
  02/07/12
he painted in like the 40s dood, most people had never even ...
Awkward fantasy-prone tank
  02/07/12
...
Bill Richmond
  05/03/26
great cuzzz his art broke the bonds of figurative art, relea...
Mentally impaired therapy range
  02/07/12
LOL @ throwing random colors at a canvas and calling it figu...
Bonkers Supple Cruise Ship Headpube
  02/07/12
dcpoast can go fuck the wrong end of a tiger shark, but lol ...
Awkward fantasy-prone tank
  02/07/12
u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity
Mentally impaired therapy range
  02/07/12
actually i'm just expressing my highly informed opinion that...
Awkward fantasy-prone tank
  02/07/12
ur beautiful when ur hungry
Mentally impaired therapy range
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism is about a new birth of freedom in se...
Mentally impaired therapy range
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism and nearly all avant garde art is act...
maniacal skinny woman locus
  02/07/12
Um, that hasn't been true for like 50 years.
rusted rehab puppy
  02/07/12
(no homily)
Vivacious stead genital piercing
  02/07/12
Pollock could also have painted really well in a more tradit...
Gay Stirring State
  02/07/12
Sounds like a hack to me. I could paint like Pollock. The gu...
Bonkers Supple Cruise Ship Headpube
  02/07/12
Jackson Pollock heralded the death of painting, all that's l...
Mentally impaired therapy range
  06/20/22
Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.
maniacal skinny woman locus
  02/07/12
EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual
Bonkers Supple Cruise Ship Headpube
  02/07/12
I didn't say he was...his art is. Academics took over the ...
maniacal skinny woman locus
  02/07/12
Ok. How would you interpret this painting? http://thefron...
Bonkers Supple Cruise Ship Headpube
  02/07/12
I'm not an art critic. I'm a critic of art critics.
maniacal skinny woman locus
  02/07/12
lol MagicEye noob
duck-like vigorous idea he suggested antidepressant drug
  02/07/12
Well that was uninformed
Opaque quadroon
  02/07/12
basically modern libs think intellectualism means whatever w...
Rose crackhouse
  02/07/12
wow cr
Blathering hyperactive son of senegal kitty cat
  02/07/12
he took a line of thinking to its logical extreme, and ended...
Crystalline mind-boggling potus chapel
  02/07/12
TITCR
Bonkers Supple Cruise Ship Headpube
  02/07/12
weve moved on: http://i.imgur.com/P8OAw.jpg now thats a...
French Glittery Half-breed
  02/07/12
conceptual art, truly, is art for the masses, if they could ...
Mentally impaired therapy range
  02/07/12
banksy is the only artist who engages real people
French Glittery Half-breed
  02/07/12
I think Pollock paintings are beautiful. They're a sight to ...
olive sticky box office
  02/07/12
It's a very spiritual place and you definitely should.
maniacal skinny woman locus
  02/07/12
LOL, just LOL.
Bonkers Supple Cruise Ship Headpube
  02/07/12
If you choose to view art only in terms of its achievement a...
olive sticky box office
  02/07/12
Separate the art from the artist = that looks like it was dr...
Bull Headed Aphrodisiac Indirect Expression
  02/07/12
Rothkos are really impressive in person -- images like that ...
rusted rehab puppy
  02/07/12
Agree it's much different, many of these paintings are huge ...
adventurous love of her life church building
  02/07/12
I absolutely love Rothko too. What do you think about Mothe...
Disturbing Institution
  06/20/22
great, but the post-war intellectual milieu from which his i...
aggressive rebellious stock car
  02/07/12
If it doesn't have a shiny baby Jebus I ain't lookin'
dun bearded pozpig
  02/07/12
the credited summary if u mad about this: http://www.tom...
French Glittery Half-breed
  02/07/12
somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash
Bull Headed Aphrodisiac Indirect Expression
  02/07/12
Now THIS is painting: http://www.paintinghere.com/UploadPic...
rusted rehab puppy
  02/07/12
Oh What a Painter!
Vivacious stead genital piercing
  02/07/12
IMO getting MAD in this day and age about Jackson fucking Po...
rusted rehab puppy
  02/07/12
one of the more credited poasts i've seen in 10 years on thi...
Vivacious stead genital piercing
  02/07/12
link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?
Disturbing Institution
  06/20/22
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/02/29/arts/00newartist1...
Wonderful Den
  06/20/22
lol. I was being serious
Disturbing Institution
  06/20/22
big fan
seedy casino
  06/20/22
...
charismatic stubborn site pervert
  06/20/22
movie on him on netflix
Diverse Insane Double Fault Azn
  02/07/12
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-...
180 useless legal warrant
  06/20/22
Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?
at-the-ready jet french chef parlour
  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: Bonkers Supple Cruise Ship Headpube

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: Bonkers Supple Cruise Ship Headpube

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: Concupiscible gas station toaster

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: Awkward fantasy-prone tank

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: Mentally impaired therapy range

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: Bonkers Supple Cruise Ship Headpube

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: Awkward fantasy-prone tank

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: Mentally impaired therapy range

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: Awkward fantasy-prone tank

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: Mentally impaired therapy range

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: Mentally impaired therapy range

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: maniacal skinny woman locus

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: rusted rehab puppy

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: Vivacious stead genital piercing

(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: Gay Stirring State

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: Bonkers Supple Cruise Ship Headpube

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: Mentally impaired therapy range

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: maniacal skinny woman locus

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: Bonkers Supple Cruise Ship Headpube

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: maniacal skinny woman locus

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: Bonkers Supple Cruise Ship Headpube

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: maniacal skinny woman locus

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: duck-like vigorous idea he suggested antidepressant drug

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: Opaque quadroon

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: Rose crackhouse

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: Blathering hyperactive son of senegal kitty cat

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: Crystalline mind-boggling potus chapel

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: Bonkers Supple Cruise Ship Headpube

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: French Glittery Half-breed

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: Mentally impaired therapy range

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: French Glittery Half-breed

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: olive sticky box office

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: maniacal skinny woman locus

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: Bonkers Supple Cruise Ship Headpube

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: olive sticky box office

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: Bull Headed Aphrodisiac Indirect Expression

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: rusted rehab puppy

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: adventurous love of her life church building

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: Disturbing Institution

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: aggressive rebellious stock car

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: dun bearded pozpig

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: French Glittery Half-breed

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: Bull Headed Aphrodisiac Indirect Expression

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: rusted rehab puppy

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: Vivacious stead genital piercing

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: rusted rehab puppy

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: Vivacious stead genital piercing

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: Disturbing Institution

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: Wonderful Den

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: Disturbing Institution

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: seedy casino

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: charismatic stubborn site pervert



(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: Diverse Insane Double Fault Azn

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: 180 useless legal warrant

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: at-the-ready jet french chef parlour

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)