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Jackson Pollock: great artist or flame?

Anyone can throw paint on a canvas. A five year old could do...
Talented whorehouse
  02/07/12
Typical Jackson Pollock painting: http://www.ibiblio.org/...
Talented whorehouse
  02/07/12
that's pretty dope
Curious Box Office Stain
  02/07/12
he painted in like the 40s dood, most people had never even ...
Excitant Temple Hairy Legs
  02/07/12
...
Bill Richmond
  05/03/26
great cuzzz his art broke the bonds of figurative art, relea...
cobalt electric furnace
  02/07/12
LOL @ throwing random colors at a canvas and calling it figu...
Talented whorehouse
  02/07/12
dcpoast can go fuck the wrong end of a tiger shark, but lol ...
Excitant Temple Hairy Legs
  02/07/12
u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity
cobalt electric furnace
  02/07/12
actually i'm just expressing my highly informed opinion that...
Excitant Temple Hairy Legs
  02/07/12
ur beautiful when ur hungry
cobalt electric furnace
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism is about a new birth of freedom in se...
cobalt electric furnace
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism and nearly all avant garde art is act...
boyish bronze ticket booth
  02/07/12
Um, that hasn't been true for like 50 years.
fragrant brunch
  02/07/12
(no homily)
vigorous sex offender
  02/07/12
Pollock could also have painted really well in a more tradit...
Mind-boggling Church Building People Who Are Hurt
  02/07/12
Sounds like a hack to me. I could paint like Pollock. The gu...
Talented whorehouse
  02/07/12
Jackson Pollock heralded the death of painting, all that's l...
cobalt electric furnace
  06/20/22
Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.
boyish bronze ticket booth
  02/07/12
EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual
Talented whorehouse
  02/07/12
I didn't say he was...his art is. Academics took over the ...
boyish bronze ticket booth
  02/07/12
Ok. How would you interpret this painting? http://thefron...
Talented whorehouse
  02/07/12
I'm not an art critic. I'm a critic of art critics.
boyish bronze ticket booth
  02/07/12
lol MagicEye noob
bespoke rigor
  02/07/12
Well that was uninformed
stimulating factory reset button
  02/07/12
basically modern libs think intellectualism means whatever w...
Odious magical quadroon
  02/07/12
wow cr
charismatic dun tank cuck
  02/07/12
he took a line of thinking to its logical extreme, and ended...
galvanic double fault tattoo
  02/07/12
TITCR
Talented whorehouse
  02/07/12
weve moved on: http://i.imgur.com/P8OAw.jpg now thats a...
Shimmering Duck-like Orchestra Pit
  02/07/12
conceptual art, truly, is art for the masses, if they could ...
cobalt electric furnace
  02/07/12
banksy is the only artist who engages real people
Shimmering Duck-like Orchestra Pit
  02/07/12
I think Pollock paintings are beautiful. They're a sight to ...
Razzle-dazzle emerald stage laser beams
  02/07/12
It's a very spiritual place and you definitely should.
boyish bronze ticket booth
  02/07/12
LOL, just LOL.
Talented whorehouse
  02/07/12
If you choose to view art only in terms of its achievement a...
Razzle-dazzle emerald stage laser beams
  02/07/12
Separate the art from the artist = that looks like it was dr...
Overrated exhilarant immigrant
  02/07/12
Rothkos are really impressive in person -- images like that ...
fragrant brunch
  02/07/12
Agree it's much different, many of these paintings are huge ...
Beady-eyed indian lodge goyim
  02/07/12
I absolutely love Rothko too. What do you think about Mothe...
opaque massive stead wrinkle
  06/20/22
great, but the post-war intellectual milieu from which his i...
chocolate balding state
  02/07/12
If it doesn't have a shiny baby Jebus I ain't lookin'
indigo church
  02/07/12
the credited summary if u mad about this: http://www.tom...
Shimmering Duck-like Orchestra Pit
  02/07/12
somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash
Overrated exhilarant immigrant
  02/07/12
Now THIS is painting: http://www.paintinghere.com/UploadPic...
fragrant brunch
  02/07/12
Oh What a Painter!
vigorous sex offender
  02/07/12
IMO getting MAD in this day and age about Jackson fucking Po...
fragrant brunch
  02/07/12
one of the more credited poasts i've seen in 10 years on thi...
vigorous sex offender
  02/07/12
link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?
opaque massive stead wrinkle
  06/20/22
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/02/29/arts/00newartist1...
Passionate legend
  06/20/22
lol. I was being serious
opaque massive stead wrinkle
  06/20/22
big fan
cerebral nursing home ladyboy
  06/20/22
...
violet voyeur coffee pot
  06/20/22
movie on him on netflix
Violent Elastic Band
  02/07/12
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-...
appetizing station chad
  06/20/22
Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?
spruce stirring house
  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: Talented whorehouse

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=2Vannesa#19916184)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:05 PM
Author: Talented whorehouse

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=2Vannesa#19916191)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: Curious Box Office Stain

that's pretty dope

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:07 PM
Author: Excitant Temple Hairy Legs

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=2Vannesa#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=2Vannesa#49862225)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:07 PM
Author: cobalt electric furnace

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=2Vannesa#19916202)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:08 PM
Author: Talented whorehouse

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=2Vannesa#19916206)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:11 PM
Author: Excitant Temple Hairy Legs

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=2Vannesa#19916216)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:14 PM
Author: cobalt electric furnace

u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:24 PM
Author: Excitant Temple Hairy Legs

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=2Vannesa#19916279)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:26 PM
Author: cobalt electric furnace

ur beautiful when ur hungry

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: cobalt electric furnace

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=2Vannesa#19916221)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:18 PM
Author: boyish bronze ticket booth

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=2Vannesa#19916252)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:09 PM
Author: fragrant brunch

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:48 PM
Author: vigorous sex offender

(no homily)

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:14 PM
Author: Mind-boggling Church Building People Who Are Hurt

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=2Vannesa#19916234)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:15 PM
Author: Talented whorehouse

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=2Vannesa#19916239)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: cobalt electric furnace

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=2Vannesa#44713874)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:10 PM
Author: boyish bronze ticket booth

Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: Talented whorehouse

EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:15 PM
Author: boyish bronze ticket booth

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=2Vannesa#19916242)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:17 PM
Author: Talented whorehouse

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=2Vannesa#19916249)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: boyish bronze ticket booth

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:30 PM
Author: bespoke rigor

lol MagicEye noob

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: stimulating factory reset button

Well that was uninformed

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:17 PM
Author: Odious magical quadroon

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=2Vannesa#19916248)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:47 PM
Author: charismatic dun tank cuck

wow cr

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: galvanic double fault tattoo

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=2Vannesa#19916256)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:20 PM
Author: Talented whorehouse

TITCR

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:21 PM
Author: Shimmering Duck-like Orchestra Pit

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

now thats art

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:24 PM
Author: cobalt electric furnace

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:46 PM
Author: Shimmering Duck-like Orchestra Pit

banksy is the only artist who engages real people

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:30 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle emerald stage laser beams

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=2Vannesa#19916298)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:31 PM
Author: boyish bronze ticket booth

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:34 PM
Author: Talented whorehouse

LOL, just LOL.

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:41 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle emerald stage laser beams

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=2Vannesa#19916344)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:44 PM
Author: Overrated exhilarant immigrant

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=2Vannesa#19919110)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:06 PM
Author: fragrant brunch

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=2Vannesa#19919331)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:11 PM
Author: Beady-eyed indian lodge 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=2Vannesa#19919353)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:00 PM
Author: opaque massive stead wrinkle

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=2Vannesa#44713666)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:41 PM
Author: chocolate balding state

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=2Vannesa#19919089)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:44 PM
Author: indigo church

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:46 PM
Author: Shimmering Duck-like Orchestra 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=2Vannesa#19919139)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:49 PM
Author: Overrated exhilarant immigrant

somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:07 PM
Author: fragrant brunch

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=2Vannesa#19919333)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:42 PM
Author: vigorous sex offender

Oh What a Painter!

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:12 PM
Author: fragrant brunch

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=2Vannesa#19919361)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:43 PM
Author: vigorous sex offender

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=2Vannesa#19919600)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:03 PM
Author: opaque massive stead wrinkle

link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:07 PM
Author: Passionate legend

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

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:41 PM
Author: opaque massive stead wrinkle

lol. I was being serious

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: cerebral nursing home ladyboy

big fan

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: violet voyeur coffee pot



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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:13 PM
Author: Violent Elastic Band

movie on him on netflix

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 3:23 PM
Author: appetizing station chad

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=2Vannesa#44713016)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:48 PM
Author: spruce stirring house

Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?

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