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Jackson Pollock: great artist or flame?

Anyone can throw paint on a canvas. A five year old could do...
doobsian boiling water elastic band
  02/07/12
Typical Jackson Pollock painting: http://www.ibiblio.org/...
doobsian boiling water elastic band
  02/07/12
that's pretty dope
Deranged Rehab
  02/07/12
he painted in like the 40s dood, most people had never even ...
stimulating gas station hominid
  02/07/12
...
Bill Richmond
  05/03/26
great cuzzz his art broke the bonds of figurative art, relea...
Mustard crawly senate
  02/07/12
LOL @ throwing random colors at a canvas and calling it figu...
doobsian boiling water elastic band
  02/07/12
dcpoast can go fuck the wrong end of a tiger shark, but lol ...
stimulating gas station hominid
  02/07/12
u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity
Mustard crawly senate
  02/07/12
actually i'm just expressing my highly informed opinion that...
stimulating gas station hominid
  02/07/12
ur beautiful when ur hungry
Mustard crawly senate
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism is about a new birth of freedom in se...
Mustard crawly senate
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism and nearly all avant garde art is act...
Sadistic cream pozpig messiness
  02/07/12
Um, that hasn't been true for like 50 years.
spectacular emerald mad-dog skullcap
  02/07/12
(no homily)
know-it-all diverse school antidepressant drug
  02/07/12
Pollock could also have painted really well in a more tradit...
dashing hall generalized bond
  02/07/12
Sounds like a hack to me. I could paint like Pollock. The gu...
doobsian boiling water elastic band
  02/07/12
Jackson Pollock heralded the death of painting, all that's l...
Mustard crawly senate
  06/20/22
Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.
Sadistic cream pozpig messiness
  02/07/12
EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual
doobsian boiling water elastic band
  02/07/12
I didn't say he was...his art is. Academics took over the ...
Sadistic cream pozpig messiness
  02/07/12
Ok. How would you interpret this painting? http://thefron...
doobsian boiling water elastic band
  02/07/12
I'm not an art critic. I'm a critic of art critics.
Sadistic cream pozpig messiness
  02/07/12
lol MagicEye noob
180 Box Office Coldplay Fan
  02/07/12
Well that was uninformed
Deep Vermilion Masturbator
  02/07/12
basically modern libs think intellectualism means whatever w...
Bateful heaven police squad
  02/07/12
wow cr
exhilarant associate
  02/07/12
he took a line of thinking to its logical extreme, and ended...
Flesh den
  02/07/12
TITCR
doobsian boiling water elastic band
  02/07/12
weve moved on: http://i.imgur.com/P8OAw.jpg now thats a...
Bronze Out-of-control Pervert School Cafeteria
  02/07/12
conceptual art, truly, is art for the masses, if they could ...
Mustard crawly senate
  02/07/12
banksy is the only artist who engages real people
Bronze Out-of-control Pervert School Cafeteria
  02/07/12
I think Pollock paintings are beautiful. They're a sight to ...
French chest-beating brunch circlehead
  02/07/12
It's a very spiritual place and you definitely should.
Sadistic cream pozpig messiness
  02/07/12
LOL, just LOL.
doobsian boiling water elastic band
  02/07/12
If you choose to view art only in terms of its achievement a...
French chest-beating brunch circlehead
  02/07/12
Separate the art from the artist = that looks like it was dr...
Shivering arousing house tattoo
  02/07/12
Rothkos are really impressive in person -- images like that ...
spectacular emerald mad-dog skullcap
  02/07/12
Agree it's much different, many of these paintings are huge ...
soul-stirring puce depressive kitty cat
  02/07/12
I absolutely love Rothko too. What do you think about Mothe...
spruce pea-brained turdskin nursing home
  06/20/22
great, but the post-war intellectual milieu from which his i...
soggy native potus
  02/07/12
If it doesn't have a shiny baby Jebus I ain't lookin'
Appetizing aquamarine jewess piazza
  02/07/12
the credited summary if u mad about this: http://www.tom...
Bronze Out-of-control Pervert School Cafeteria
  02/07/12
somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash
Shivering arousing house tattoo
  02/07/12
Now THIS is painting: http://www.paintinghere.com/UploadPic...
spectacular emerald mad-dog skullcap
  02/07/12
Oh What a Painter!
know-it-all diverse school antidepressant drug
  02/07/12
IMO getting MAD in this day and age about Jackson fucking Po...
spectacular emerald mad-dog skullcap
  02/07/12
one of the more credited poasts i've seen in 10 years on thi...
know-it-all diverse school antidepressant drug
  02/07/12
link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?
spruce pea-brained turdskin nursing home
  06/20/22
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/02/29/arts/00newartist1...
Motley azn institution
  06/20/22
lol. I was being serious
spruce pea-brained turdskin nursing home
  06/20/22
big fan
topaz maniacal legend stain
  06/20/22
...
heady ebony volcanic crater
  06/20/22
movie on him on netflix
drab coiffed milk ticket booth
  02/07/12
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-...
Carnelian Really Tough Guy Factory Reset Button
  06/20/22
Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?
pink low-t temple background story
  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: doobsian boiling water elastic band

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...#19916184)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:05 PM
Author: doobsian boiling water elastic band

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...#19916191)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: Deranged Rehab

that's pretty dope

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:07 PM
Author: stimulating gas station hominid

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...#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...#49862225)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:07 PM
Author: Mustard crawly senate

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...#19916202)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:08 PM
Author: doobsian boiling water elastic band

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...#19916206)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:11 PM
Author: stimulating gas station hominid

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...#19916216)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:14 PM
Author: Mustard crawly senate

u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:24 PM
Author: stimulating gas station hominid

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...#19916279)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:26 PM
Author: Mustard crawly senate

ur beautiful when ur hungry

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: Mustard crawly senate

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...#19916221)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:18 PM
Author: Sadistic cream pozpig messiness

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...#19916252)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:09 PM
Author: spectacular emerald mad-dog skullcap

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:48 PM
Author: know-it-all diverse school antidepressant drug

(no homily)

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:14 PM
Author: dashing hall generalized bond

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...#19916234)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:15 PM
Author: doobsian boiling water elastic band

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...#19916239)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: Mustard crawly senate

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...#44713874)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:10 PM
Author: Sadistic cream pozpig messiness

Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: doobsian boiling water elastic band

EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:15 PM
Author: Sadistic cream pozpig messiness

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...#19916242)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:17 PM
Author: doobsian boiling water elastic band

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...#19916249)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: Sadistic cream pozpig messiness

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...#19916258)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:30 PM
Author: 180 Box Office Coldplay Fan

lol MagicEye noob

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: Deep Vermilion Masturbator

Well that was uninformed

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:17 PM
Author: Bateful heaven police squad

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...#19916248)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:47 PM
Author: exhilarant associate

wow cr

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: Flesh den

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...#19916256)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:20 PM
Author: doobsian boiling water elastic band

TITCR

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:21 PM
Author: Bronze Out-of-control Pervert School Cafeteria

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

now thats art

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:24 PM
Author: Mustard crawly senate

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...#19916280)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:46 PM
Author: Bronze Out-of-control Pervert School Cafeteria

banksy is the only artist who engages real people

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:30 PM
Author: French chest-beating brunch circlehead

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...#19916298)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:31 PM
Author: Sadistic cream pozpig messiness

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:34 PM
Author: doobsian boiling water elastic band

LOL, just LOL.

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:41 PM
Author: French chest-beating brunch circlehead

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...#19916344)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:44 PM
Author: Shivering arousing house tattoo

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...#19919110)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:06 PM
Author: spectacular emerald mad-dog skullcap

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...#19919331)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:11 PM
Author: soul-stirring puce depressive kitty cat

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...#19919353)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:00 PM
Author: spruce pea-brained turdskin nursing home

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...#44713666)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:41 PM
Author: soggy native potus

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...#19919089)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:44 PM
Author: Appetizing aquamarine jewess piazza

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...#19919114)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:46 PM
Author: Bronze Out-of-control Pervert School Cafeteria

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...#19919139)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:49 PM
Author: Shivering arousing house tattoo

somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:07 PM
Author: spectacular emerald mad-dog skullcap

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...#19919333)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:42 PM
Author: know-it-all diverse school antidepressant drug

Oh What a Painter!

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:12 PM
Author: spectacular emerald mad-dog skullcap

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...#19919361)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:43 PM
Author: know-it-all diverse school antidepressant drug

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...#19919600)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:03 PM
Author: spruce pea-brained turdskin nursing home

link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:07 PM
Author: Motley azn institution

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...#44713691)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:41 PM
Author: spruce pea-brained turdskin nursing home

lol. I was being serious

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: topaz maniacal legend stain

big fan

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: heady ebony volcanic crater



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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:13 PM
Author: drab coiffed milk ticket booth

movie on him on netflix

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 3:23 PM
Author: Carnelian Really Tough Guy Factory Reset Button

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...#44713016)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:48 PM
Author: pink low-t temple background story

Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?

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