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Jackson Pollock: great artist or flame?

Anyone can throw paint on a canvas. A five year old could do...
Lemon shitlib
  02/07/12
Typical Jackson Pollock painting: http://www.ibiblio.org/...
Lemon shitlib
  02/07/12
that's pretty dope
Mewling saffron nibblets
  02/07/12
he painted in like the 40s dood, most people had never even ...
Sable Striped Hyena Deer Antler
  02/07/12
...
Bill Richmond
  05/03/26
great cuzzz his art broke the bonds of figurative art, relea...
Godawful Potus
  02/07/12
LOL @ throwing random colors at a canvas and calling it figu...
Lemon shitlib
  02/07/12
dcpoast can go fuck the wrong end of a tiger shark, but lol ...
Sable Striped Hyena Deer Antler
  02/07/12
u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity
Godawful Potus
  02/07/12
actually i'm just expressing my highly informed opinion that...
Sable Striped Hyena Deer Antler
  02/07/12
ur beautiful when ur hungry
Godawful Potus
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism is about a new birth of freedom in se...
Godawful Potus
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism and nearly all avant garde art is act...
fragrant patrolman
  02/07/12
Um, that hasn't been true for like 50 years.
yellow sweet tailpipe
  02/07/12
(no homily)
boyish tan really tough guy goal in life
  02/07/12
Pollock could also have painted really well in a more tradit...
grizzly thriller boiling water
  02/07/12
Sounds like a hack to me. I could paint like Pollock. The gu...
Lemon shitlib
  02/07/12
Jackson Pollock heralded the death of painting, all that's l...
Godawful Potus
  06/20/22
Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.
fragrant patrolman
  02/07/12
EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual
Lemon shitlib
  02/07/12
I didn't say he was...his art is. Academics took over the ...
fragrant patrolman
  02/07/12
Ok. How would you interpret this painting? http://thefron...
Lemon shitlib
  02/07/12
I'm not an art critic. I'm a critic of art critics.
fragrant patrolman
  02/07/12
lol MagicEye noob
Naked Excitant Public Bath Juggernaut
  02/07/12
Well that was uninformed
adventurous state
  02/07/12
basically modern libs think intellectualism means whatever w...
Lake Exciting Dopamine
  02/07/12
wow cr
transparent stage genital piercing
  02/07/12
he took a line of thinking to its logical extreme, and ended...
Stimulating resort azn
  02/07/12
TITCR
Lemon shitlib
  02/07/12
weve moved on: http://i.imgur.com/P8OAw.jpg now thats a...
lime church building dog poop
  02/07/12
conceptual art, truly, is art for the masses, if they could ...
Godawful Potus
  02/07/12
banksy is the only artist who engages real people
lime church building dog poop
  02/07/12
I think Pollock paintings are beautiful. They're a sight to ...
chocolate half-breed
  02/07/12
It's a very spiritual place and you definitely should.
fragrant patrolman
  02/07/12
LOL, just LOL.
Lemon shitlib
  02/07/12
If you choose to view art only in terms of its achievement a...
chocolate half-breed
  02/07/12
Separate the art from the artist = that looks like it was dr...
Self-absorbed Topaz Water Buffalo
  02/07/12
Rothkos are really impressive in person -- images like that ...
yellow sweet tailpipe
  02/07/12
Agree it's much different, many of these paintings are huge ...
Mahogany queen of the night house
  02/07/12
I absolutely love Rothko too. What do you think about Mothe...
Violent anal turdskin
  06/20/22
great, but the post-war intellectual milieu from which his i...
curious immigrant
  02/07/12
If it doesn't have a shiny baby Jebus I ain't lookin'
Soggy box office jew
  02/07/12
the credited summary if u mad about this: http://www.tom...
lime church building dog poop
  02/07/12
somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash
Self-absorbed Topaz Water Buffalo
  02/07/12
Now THIS is painting: http://www.paintinghere.com/UploadPic...
yellow sweet tailpipe
  02/07/12
Oh What a Painter!
boyish tan really tough guy goal in life
  02/07/12
IMO getting MAD in this day and age about Jackson fucking Po...
yellow sweet tailpipe
  02/07/12
one of the more credited poasts i've seen in 10 years on thi...
boyish tan really tough guy goal in life
  02/07/12
link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?
Violent anal turdskin
  06/20/22
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/02/29/arts/00newartist1...
Titillating Pocket Flask
  06/20/22
lol. I was being serious
Violent anal turdskin
  06/20/22
big fan
ocher orchestra pit
  06/20/22
...
Khaki federal philosopher-king
  06/20/22
movie on him on netflix
Irradiated judgmental theater stage coldplay fan
  02/07/12
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-...
heady business firm becky
  06/20/22
Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?
Balding site scourge upon the earth
  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: Lemon shitlib

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=2id.#19916184)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:05 PM
Author: Lemon shitlib

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=2id.#19916191)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: Mewling saffron nibblets

that's pretty dope

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:07 PM
Author: Sable Striped Hyena Deer Antler

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=2id.#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=2id.#49862225)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:07 PM
Author: Godawful Potus

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=2id.#19916202)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:08 PM
Author: Lemon shitlib

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=2id.#19916206)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:11 PM
Author: Sable Striped Hyena Deer Antler

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=2id.#19916216)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:14 PM
Author: Godawful Potus

u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:24 PM
Author: Sable Striped Hyena Deer Antler

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=2id.#19916279)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:26 PM
Author: Godawful Potus

ur beautiful when ur hungry

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: Godawful Potus

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=2id.#19916221)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:18 PM
Author: fragrant patrolman

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=2id.#19916252)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:09 PM
Author: yellow sweet tailpipe

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:48 PM
Author: boyish tan really tough guy goal in life

(no homily)

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:14 PM
Author: grizzly thriller boiling water

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=2id.#19916234)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:15 PM
Author: Lemon shitlib

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=2id.#19916239)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: Godawful Potus

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=2id.#44713874)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:10 PM
Author: fragrant patrolman

Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: Lemon shitlib

EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:15 PM
Author: fragrant patrolman

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=2id.#19916242)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:17 PM
Author: Lemon shitlib

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=2id.#19916249)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: fragrant patrolman

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:30 PM
Author: Naked Excitant Public Bath Juggernaut

lol MagicEye noob

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: adventurous state

Well that was uninformed

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:17 PM
Author: Lake Exciting Dopamine

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=2id.#19916248)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:47 PM
Author: transparent stage genital piercing

wow cr

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: Stimulating resort azn

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=2id.#19916256)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:20 PM
Author: Lemon shitlib

TITCR

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:21 PM
Author: lime church building dog poop

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

now thats art

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:24 PM
Author: Godawful Potus

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:46 PM
Author: lime church building dog poop

banksy is the only artist who engages real people

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:30 PM
Author: chocolate half-breed

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=2id.#19916298)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:31 PM
Author: fragrant patrolman

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:34 PM
Author: Lemon shitlib

LOL, just LOL.

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:41 PM
Author: chocolate half-breed

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=2id.#19916344)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:44 PM
Author: Self-absorbed Topaz Water Buffalo

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=2id.#19919110)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:06 PM
Author: yellow sweet tailpipe

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=2id.#19919331)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:11 PM
Author: Mahogany queen of the night house

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=2id.#19919353)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:00 PM
Author: Violent anal turdskin

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=2id.#44713666)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:41 PM
Author: curious immigrant

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=2id.#19919089)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:44 PM
Author: Soggy box office jew

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:46 PM
Author: lime church building dog poop

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=2id.#19919139)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:49 PM
Author: Self-absorbed Topaz Water Buffalo

somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:07 PM
Author: yellow sweet tailpipe

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=2id.#19919333)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:42 PM
Author: boyish tan really tough guy goal in life

Oh What a Painter!

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:12 PM
Author: yellow sweet tailpipe

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=2id.#19919361)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:43 PM
Author: boyish tan really tough guy goal in life

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=2id.#19919600)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:03 PM
Author: Violent anal turdskin

link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:07 PM
Author: Titillating Pocket Flask

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

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:41 PM
Author: Violent anal turdskin

lol. I was being serious

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: ocher orchestra pit

big fan

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: Khaki federal philosopher-king



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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:13 PM
Author: Irradiated judgmental theater stage coldplay fan

movie on him on netflix

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 3:23 PM
Author: heady business firm becky

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=2id.#44713016)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:48 PM
Author: Balding site scourge upon the earth

Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?

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