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Jackson Pollock: great artist or flame?

Anyone can throw paint on a canvas. A five year old could do...
cowardly copper regret
  02/07/12
Typical Jackson Pollock painting: http://www.ibiblio.org/...
cowardly copper regret
  02/07/12
that's pretty dope
histrionic indian lodge degenerate
  02/07/12
he painted in like the 40s dood, most people had never even ...
very tactful 180 home twinkling uncleanness
  02/07/12
...
Bill Richmond
  05/03/26
great cuzzz his art broke the bonds of figurative art, relea...
Crusty Curious Plaza Goal In Life
  02/07/12
LOL @ throwing random colors at a canvas and calling it figu...
cowardly copper regret
  02/07/12
dcpoast can go fuck the wrong end of a tiger shark, but lol ...
very tactful 180 home twinkling uncleanness
  02/07/12
u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity
Crusty Curious Plaza Goal In Life
  02/07/12
actually i'm just expressing my highly informed opinion that...
very tactful 180 home twinkling uncleanness
  02/07/12
ur beautiful when ur hungry
Crusty Curious Plaza Goal In Life
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism is about a new birth of freedom in se...
Crusty Curious Plaza Goal In Life
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism and nearly all avant garde art is act...
diverse chapel
  02/07/12
Um, that hasn't been true for like 50 years.
charcoal theater stage
  02/07/12
(no homily)
beady-eyed prole
  02/07/12
Pollock could also have painted really well in a more tradit...
bronze church building circlehead
  02/07/12
Sounds like a hack to me. I could paint like Pollock. The gu...
cowardly copper regret
  02/07/12
Jackson Pollock heralded the death of painting, all that's l...
Crusty Curious Plaza Goal In Life
  06/20/22
Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.
diverse chapel
  02/07/12
EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual
cowardly copper regret
  02/07/12
I didn't say he was...his art is. Academics took over the ...
diverse chapel
  02/07/12
Ok. How would you interpret this painting? http://thefron...
cowardly copper regret
  02/07/12
I'm not an art critic. I'm a critic of art critics.
diverse chapel
  02/07/12
lol MagicEye noob
Cream brethren
  02/07/12
Well that was uninformed
turquoise aromatic faggot firefighter
  02/07/12
basically modern libs think intellectualism means whatever w...
Tripping Set Masturbator
  02/07/12
wow cr
wonderful thirsty garrison
  02/07/12
he took a line of thinking to its logical extreme, and ended...
Misanthropic Filthpig
  02/07/12
TITCR
cowardly copper regret
  02/07/12
weve moved on: http://i.imgur.com/P8OAw.jpg now thats a...
Citrine Rebellious Public Bath Mediation
  02/07/12
conceptual art, truly, is art for the masses, if they could ...
Crusty Curious Plaza Goal In Life
  02/07/12
banksy is the only artist who engages real people
Citrine Rebellious Public Bath Mediation
  02/07/12
I think Pollock paintings are beautiful. They're a sight to ...
startled slippery becky roommate
  02/07/12
It's a very spiritual place and you definitely should.
diverse chapel
  02/07/12
LOL, just LOL.
cowardly copper regret
  02/07/12
If you choose to view art only in terms of its achievement a...
startled slippery becky roommate
  02/07/12
Separate the art from the artist = that looks like it was dr...
Translucent Know-it-all Mother Milk
  02/07/12
Rothkos are really impressive in person -- images like that ...
charcoal theater stage
  02/07/12
Agree it's much different, many of these paintings are huge ...
odious hall crotch
  02/07/12
I absolutely love Rothko too. What do you think about Mothe...
Soul-stirring bull headed heaven pozpig
  06/20/22
great, but the post-war intellectual milieu from which his i...
vengeful karate library
  02/07/12
If it doesn't have a shiny baby Jebus I ain't lookin'
cerebral sapphire base
  02/07/12
the credited summary if u mad about this: http://www.tom...
Citrine Rebellious Public Bath Mediation
  02/07/12
somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash
Translucent Know-it-all Mother Milk
  02/07/12
Now THIS is painting: http://www.paintinghere.com/UploadPic...
charcoal theater stage
  02/07/12
Oh What a Painter!
beady-eyed prole
  02/07/12
IMO getting MAD in this day and age about Jackson fucking Po...
charcoal theater stage
  02/07/12
one of the more credited poasts i've seen in 10 years on thi...
beady-eyed prole
  02/07/12
link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?
Soul-stirring bull headed heaven pozpig
  06/20/22
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/02/29/arts/00newartist1...
Swashbuckling free-loading mad cow disease
  06/20/22
lol. I was being serious
Soul-stirring bull headed heaven pozpig
  06/20/22
big fan
awkward walnut station patrolman
  06/20/22
...
vigorous rigor
  06/20/22
movie on him on netflix
carmine bearded tattoo
  02/07/12
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-...
demanding elastic band
  06/20/22
Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?
Amethyst Site Useless Brakes
  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: cowardly copper regret

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: cowardly copper regret

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: histrionic indian lodge degenerate

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: very tactful 180 home twinkling uncleanness

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: Crusty Curious Plaza Goal In Life

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: cowardly copper regret

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: very tactful 180 home twinkling uncleanness

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: Crusty Curious Plaza Goal In Life

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: very tactful 180 home twinkling uncleanness

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: Crusty Curious Plaza Goal In Life

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: Crusty Curious Plaza Goal In Life

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: diverse chapel

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: charcoal theater stage

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: beady-eyed prole

(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: bronze church building circlehead

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: cowardly copper regret

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: Crusty Curious Plaza Goal In Life

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: diverse chapel

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: cowardly copper regret

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: diverse chapel

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: cowardly copper regret

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: diverse chapel

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: Cream brethren

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: turquoise aromatic faggot firefighter

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: Tripping Set Masturbator

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: wonderful thirsty garrison

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: Misanthropic Filthpig

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: cowardly copper regret

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: Citrine Rebellious Public Bath Mediation

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: Crusty Curious Plaza Goal In Life

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: Citrine Rebellious Public Bath Mediation

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: startled slippery becky roommate

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: diverse chapel

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: cowardly copper regret

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: startled slippery becky roommate

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: Translucent Know-it-all Mother Milk

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: charcoal theater stage

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: odious hall crotch

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: Soul-stirring bull headed heaven pozpig

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: vengeful karate library

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: cerebral sapphire base

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: Citrine Rebellious Public Bath Mediation

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: Translucent Know-it-all Mother Milk

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: charcoal theater stage

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: beady-eyed prole

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: charcoal theater stage

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: beady-eyed prole

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: Soul-stirring bull headed heaven pozpig

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: Swashbuckling free-loading mad cow disease

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: Soul-stirring bull headed heaven pozpig

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: awkward walnut station patrolman

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: vigorous rigor



(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: carmine bearded tattoo

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: demanding elastic band

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: Amethyst Site Useless Brakes

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)