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Jackson Pollock: great artist or flame?

Anyone can throw paint on a canvas. A five year old could do...
vermilion heaven genital piercing
  02/07/12
Typical Jackson Pollock painting: http://www.ibiblio.org/...
vermilion heaven genital piercing
  02/07/12
that's pretty dope
Pea-brained vigorous tanning salon
  02/07/12
he painted in like the 40s dood, most people had never even ...
bespoke disturbing main people lay
  02/07/12
...
Bill Richmond
  05/03/26
great cuzzz his art broke the bonds of figurative art, relea...
impertinent salmon therapy
  02/07/12
LOL @ throwing random colors at a canvas and calling it figu...
vermilion heaven genital piercing
  02/07/12
dcpoast can go fuck the wrong end of a tiger shark, but lol ...
bespoke disturbing main people lay
  02/07/12
u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity
impertinent salmon therapy
  02/07/12
actually i'm just expressing my highly informed opinion that...
bespoke disturbing main people lay
  02/07/12
ur beautiful when ur hungry
impertinent salmon therapy
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism is about a new birth of freedom in se...
impertinent salmon therapy
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism and nearly all avant garde art is act...
mauve faggot firefighter
  02/07/12
Um, that hasn't been true for like 50 years.
Provocative Costumed House Newt
  02/07/12
(no homily)
stimulating cocky preventive strike double fault
  02/07/12
Pollock could also have painted really well in a more tradit...
pink concupiscible kitty cat
  02/07/12
Sounds like a hack to me. I could paint like Pollock. The gu...
vermilion heaven genital piercing
  02/07/12
Jackson Pollock heralded the death of painting, all that's l...
impertinent salmon therapy
  06/20/22
Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.
mauve faggot firefighter
  02/07/12
EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual
vermilion heaven genital piercing
  02/07/12
I didn't say he was...his art is. Academics took over the ...
mauve faggot firefighter
  02/07/12
Ok. How would you interpret this painting? http://thefron...
vermilion heaven genital piercing
  02/07/12
I'm not an art critic. I'm a critic of art critics.
mauve faggot firefighter
  02/07/12
lol MagicEye noob
Bat shit crazy lilac station sweet tailpipe
  02/07/12
Well that was uninformed
Laughsome kitchen
  02/07/12
basically modern libs think intellectualism means whatever w...
harsh lascivious patrolman
  02/07/12
wow cr
fear-inspiring electric sanctuary water buffalo
  02/07/12
he took a line of thinking to its logical extreme, and ended...
twinkling bawdyhouse crotch
  02/07/12
TITCR
vermilion heaven genital piercing
  02/07/12
weve moved on: http://i.imgur.com/P8OAw.jpg now thats a...
bateful ungodly pit
  02/07/12
conceptual art, truly, is art for the masses, if they could ...
impertinent salmon therapy
  02/07/12
banksy is the only artist who engages real people
bateful ungodly pit
  02/07/12
I think Pollock paintings are beautiful. They're a sight to ...
out-of-control jap
  02/07/12
It's a very spiritual place and you definitely should.
mauve faggot firefighter
  02/07/12
LOL, just LOL.
vermilion heaven genital piercing
  02/07/12
If you choose to view art only in terms of its achievement a...
out-of-control jap
  02/07/12
Separate the art from the artist = that looks like it was dr...
azure beady-eyed chapel
  02/07/12
Rothkos are really impressive in person -- images like that ...
Provocative Costumed House Newt
  02/07/12
Agree it's much different, many of these paintings are huge ...
Appetizing library goyim
  02/07/12
I absolutely love Rothko too. What do you think about Mothe...
misanthropic fighting rehab kitty
  06/20/22
great, but the post-war intellectual milieu from which his i...
Tan motley pocket flask theater
  02/07/12
If it doesn't have a shiny baby Jebus I ain't lookin'
Razzle-dazzle fishy shrine
  02/07/12
the credited summary if u mad about this: http://www.tom...
bateful ungodly pit
  02/07/12
somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash
azure beady-eyed chapel
  02/07/12
Now THIS is painting: http://www.paintinghere.com/UploadPic...
Provocative Costumed House Newt
  02/07/12
Oh What a Painter!
stimulating cocky preventive strike double fault
  02/07/12
IMO getting MAD in this day and age about Jackson fucking Po...
Provocative Costumed House Newt
  02/07/12
one of the more credited poasts i've seen in 10 years on thi...
stimulating cocky preventive strike double fault
  02/07/12
link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?
misanthropic fighting rehab kitty
  06/20/22
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/02/29/arts/00newartist1...
Dull Domesticated Azn
  06/20/22
lol. I was being serious
misanthropic fighting rehab kitty
  06/20/22
big fan
Rose cerebral trump supporter
  06/20/22
...
Stubborn dashing laser beams degenerate
  06/20/22
movie on him on netflix
Ebony Vibrant Base Pervert
  02/07/12
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-...
pale pisswyrm shitlib
  06/20/22
Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?
Aphrodisiac school cafeteria lettuce
  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: vermilion heaven genital piercing

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=2Reputation#19916184)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:05 PM
Author: vermilion heaven genital piercing

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=2Reputation#19916191)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: Pea-brained vigorous tanning salon

that's pretty dope

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:07 PM
Author: bespoke disturbing main people lay

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=2Reputation#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=2Reputation#49862225)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:07 PM
Author: impertinent salmon therapy

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=2Reputation#19916202)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:08 PM
Author: vermilion heaven genital piercing

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=2Reputation#19916206)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:11 PM
Author: bespoke disturbing main people lay

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=2Reputation#19916216)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:14 PM
Author: impertinent salmon therapy

u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:24 PM
Author: bespoke disturbing main people lay

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=2Reputation#19916279)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:26 PM
Author: impertinent salmon therapy

ur beautiful when ur hungry

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: impertinent salmon therapy

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=2Reputation#19916221)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:18 PM
Author: mauve faggot firefighter

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=2Reputation#19916252)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:09 PM
Author: Provocative Costumed House Newt

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:48 PM
Author: stimulating cocky preventive strike double fault

(no homily)

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:14 PM
Author: pink concupiscible kitty cat

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=2Reputation#19916234)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:15 PM
Author: vermilion heaven genital piercing

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=2Reputation#19916239)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: impertinent salmon therapy

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=2Reputation#44713874)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:10 PM
Author: mauve faggot firefighter

Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: vermilion heaven genital piercing

EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:15 PM
Author: mauve faggot firefighter

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=2Reputation#19916242)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:17 PM
Author: vermilion heaven genital piercing

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=2Reputation#19916249)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: mauve faggot firefighter

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:30 PM
Author: Bat shit crazy lilac station sweet tailpipe

lol MagicEye noob

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: Laughsome kitchen

Well that was uninformed

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:17 PM
Author: harsh lascivious patrolman

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=2Reputation#19916248)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:47 PM
Author: fear-inspiring electric sanctuary water buffalo

wow cr

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: twinkling bawdyhouse crotch

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=2Reputation#19916256)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:20 PM
Author: vermilion heaven genital piercing

TITCR

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:21 PM
Author: bateful ungodly pit

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

now thats art

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:24 PM
Author: impertinent salmon therapy

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:46 PM
Author: bateful ungodly pit

banksy is the only artist who engages real people

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:30 PM
Author: out-of-control jap

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=2Reputation#19916298)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:31 PM
Author: mauve faggot firefighter

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:34 PM
Author: vermilion heaven genital piercing

LOL, just LOL.

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:41 PM
Author: out-of-control jap

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=2Reputation#19916344)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:44 PM
Author: azure beady-eyed chapel

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=2Reputation#19919110)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:06 PM
Author: Provocative Costumed House Newt

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=2Reputation#19919331)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:11 PM
Author: Appetizing library goyim

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=2Reputation#19919353)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:00 PM
Author: misanthropic fighting rehab kitty

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=2Reputation#44713666)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:41 PM
Author: Tan motley pocket flask theater

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=2Reputation#19919089)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:44 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle fishy shrine

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:46 PM
Author: bateful ungodly pit

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=2Reputation#19919139)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:49 PM
Author: azure beady-eyed chapel

somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:07 PM
Author: Provocative Costumed House Newt

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=2Reputation#19919333)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:42 PM
Author: stimulating cocky preventive strike double fault

Oh What a Painter!

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:12 PM
Author: Provocative Costumed House Newt

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=2Reputation#19919361)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:43 PM
Author: stimulating cocky preventive strike double fault

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=2Reputation#19919600)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:03 PM
Author: misanthropic fighting rehab kitty

link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:07 PM
Author: Dull Domesticated Azn

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

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:41 PM
Author: misanthropic fighting rehab kitty

lol. I was being serious

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: Rose cerebral trump supporter

big fan

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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: Stubborn dashing laser beams degenerate



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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:13 PM
Author: Ebony Vibrant Base Pervert

movie on him on netflix

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 3:23 PM
Author: pale pisswyrm shitlib

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=2Reputation#44713016)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:48 PM
Author: Aphrodisiac school cafeteria lettuce

Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?

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