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Jackson Pollock: great artist or flame?

Anyone can throw paint on a canvas. A five year old could do...
Frozen green ticket booth
  02/07/12
Typical Jackson Pollock painting: http://www.ibiblio.org/...
Frozen green ticket booth
  02/07/12
that's pretty dope
angry jet school
  02/07/12
he painted in like the 40s dood, most people had never even ...
Insecure poppy immigrant
  02/07/12
...
Bill Richmond
  05/03/26
great cuzzz his art broke the bonds of figurative art, relea...
Lime hairless prole
  02/07/12
LOL @ throwing random colors at a canvas and calling it figu...
Frozen green ticket booth
  02/07/12
dcpoast can go fuck the wrong end of a tiger shark, but lol ...
Insecure poppy immigrant
  02/07/12
u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity
Lime hairless prole
  02/07/12
actually i'm just expressing my highly informed opinion that...
Insecure poppy immigrant
  02/07/12
ur beautiful when ur hungry
Lime hairless prole
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism is about a new birth of freedom in se...
Lime hairless prole
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism and nearly all avant garde art is act...
painfully honest house sandwich
  02/07/12
Um, that hasn't been true for like 50 years.
bisexual provocative dilemma halford
  02/07/12
(no homily)
adventurous maroon site yarmulke
  02/07/12
Pollock could also have painted really well in a more tradit...
talented onyx senate
  02/07/12
Sounds like a hack to me. I could paint like Pollock. The gu...
Frozen green ticket booth
  02/07/12
Jackson Pollock heralded the death of painting, all that's l...
Lime hairless prole
  06/20/22
Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.
painfully honest house sandwich
  02/07/12
EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual
Frozen green ticket booth
  02/07/12
I didn't say he was...his art is. Academics took over the ...
painfully honest house sandwich
  02/07/12
Ok. How would you interpret this painting? http://thefron...
Frozen green ticket booth
  02/07/12
I'm not an art critic. I'm a critic of art critics.
painfully honest house sandwich
  02/07/12
lol MagicEye noob
Chocolate den
  02/07/12
Well that was uninformed
sadistic area
  02/07/12
basically modern libs think intellectualism means whatever w...
yellow location dog poop
  02/07/12
wow cr
Gaped police squad box office
  02/07/12
he took a line of thinking to its logical extreme, and ended...
Wonderful henna field hissy fit
  02/07/12
TITCR
Frozen green ticket booth
  02/07/12
weve moved on: http://i.imgur.com/P8OAw.jpg now thats a...
Appetizing cream resort pozpig
  02/07/12
conceptual art, truly, is art for the masses, if they could ...
Lime hairless prole
  02/07/12
banksy is the only artist who engages real people
Appetizing cream resort pozpig
  02/07/12
I think Pollock paintings are beautiful. They're a sight to ...
comical snowy background story telephone
  02/07/12
It's a very spiritual place and you definitely should.
painfully honest house sandwich
  02/07/12
LOL, just LOL.
Frozen green ticket booth
  02/07/12
If you choose to view art only in terms of its achievement a...
comical snowy background story telephone
  02/07/12
Separate the art from the artist = that looks like it was dr...
orange vibrant volcanic crater lay
  02/07/12
Rothkos are really impressive in person -- images like that ...
bisexual provocative dilemma halford
  02/07/12
Agree it's much different, many of these paintings are huge ...
Dull community account institution
  02/07/12
I absolutely love Rothko too. What do you think about Mothe...
trip cerise ratface milk
  06/20/22
great, but the post-war intellectual milieu from which his i...
thriller son of senegal shrine
  02/07/12
If it doesn't have a shiny baby Jebus I ain't lookin'
Confused Big Crackhouse Party Of The First Part
  02/07/12
the credited summary if u mad about this: http://www.tom...
Appetizing cream resort pozpig
  02/07/12
somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash
orange vibrant volcanic crater lay
  02/07/12
Now THIS is painting: http://www.paintinghere.com/UploadPic...
bisexual provocative dilemma halford
  02/07/12
Oh What a Painter!
adventurous maroon site yarmulke
  02/07/12
IMO getting MAD in this day and age about Jackson fucking Po...
bisexual provocative dilemma halford
  02/07/12
one of the more credited poasts i've seen in 10 years on thi...
adventurous maroon site yarmulke
  02/07/12
link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?
trip cerise ratface milk
  06/20/22
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/02/29/arts/00newartist1...
zombie-like bateful gas station becky
  06/20/22
lol. I was being serious
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  06/20/22
big fan
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  06/20/22
...
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  06/20/22
movie on him on netflix
dashing menage
  02/07/12
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-...
Glassy Vigorous Office Generalized Bond
  06/20/22
Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?
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  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: Frozen green ticket booth

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: Frozen green ticket booth

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: angry jet school

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: Insecure poppy immigrant

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: Lime hairless prole

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: Frozen green ticket booth

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: Insecure poppy immigrant

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: Lime hairless prole

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: Insecure poppy immigrant

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: Lime hairless prole

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: Lime hairless prole

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: painfully honest house sandwich

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: bisexual provocative dilemma halford

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: adventurous maroon site yarmulke

(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: talented onyx senate

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: Frozen green ticket booth

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: Lime hairless prole

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: painfully honest house sandwich

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: Frozen green ticket booth

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: painfully honest house sandwich

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: Frozen green ticket booth

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: painfully honest house sandwich

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: Chocolate den

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: sadistic area

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: yellow location dog poop

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: Gaped police squad box office

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: Wonderful henna field hissy fit

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: Frozen green ticket booth

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: Appetizing cream resort pozpig

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: Lime hairless prole

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: Appetizing cream resort pozpig

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: comical snowy background story telephone

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: painfully honest house sandwich

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: Frozen green ticket booth

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: comical snowy background story telephone

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: orange vibrant volcanic crater lay

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: bisexual provocative dilemma halford

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: Dull community account institution

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: trip cerise ratface milk

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: thriller son of senegal shrine

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: Confused Big Crackhouse Party Of The First Part

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: Appetizing cream resort pozpig

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: orange vibrant volcanic crater lay

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: bisexual provocative dilemma halford

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: adventurous maroon site yarmulke

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: bisexual provocative dilemma halford

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: adventurous maroon site yarmulke

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: trip cerise ratface milk

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: zombie-like bateful gas station becky

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: trip cerise ratface milk

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: honey-headed idiotic heaven

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: soul-stirring carmine coffee pot



(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: dashing menage

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: Glassy Vigorous Office Generalized Bond

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: overrated organic girlfriend athletic conference

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)