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Jackson Pollock: great artist or flame?

Anyone can throw paint on a canvas. A five year old could do...
At-the-ready medicated internal respiration piazza
  02/07/12
Typical Jackson Pollock painting: http://www.ibiblio.org/...
At-the-ready medicated internal respiration piazza
  02/07/12
that's pretty dope
razzle-dazzle feces
  02/07/12
he painted in like the 40s dood, most people had never even ...
Clear Private Investor Property
  02/07/12
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Bill Richmond
  05/03/26
great cuzzz his art broke the bonds of figurative art, relea...
honey-headed liquid oxygen hunting ground
  02/07/12
LOL @ throwing random colors at a canvas and calling it figu...
At-the-ready medicated internal respiration piazza
  02/07/12
dcpoast can go fuck the wrong end of a tiger shark, but lol ...
Clear Private Investor Property
  02/07/12
u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity
honey-headed liquid oxygen hunting ground
  02/07/12
actually i'm just expressing my highly informed opinion that...
Clear Private Investor Property
  02/07/12
ur beautiful when ur hungry
honey-headed liquid oxygen hunting ground
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism is about a new birth of freedom in se...
honey-headed liquid oxygen hunting ground
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism and nearly all avant garde art is act...
khaki soul-stirring heaven
  02/07/12
Um, that hasn't been true for like 50 years.
electric charcoal space french chef
  02/07/12
(no homily)
vigorous ivory center tattoo
  02/07/12
Pollock could also have painted really well in a more tradit...
Fiercely-loyal Heady Set Marketing Idea
  02/07/12
Sounds like a hack to me. I could paint like Pollock. The gu...
At-the-ready medicated internal respiration piazza
  02/07/12
Jackson Pollock heralded the death of painting, all that's l...
honey-headed liquid oxygen hunting ground
  06/20/22
Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.
khaki soul-stirring heaven
  02/07/12
EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual
At-the-ready medicated internal respiration piazza
  02/07/12
I didn't say he was...his art is. Academics took over the ...
khaki soul-stirring heaven
  02/07/12
Ok. How would you interpret this painting? http://thefron...
At-the-ready medicated internal respiration piazza
  02/07/12
I'm not an art critic. I'm a critic of art critics.
khaki soul-stirring heaven
  02/07/12
lol MagicEye noob
Boyish milky shrine corn cake
  02/07/12
Well that was uninformed
Cordovan Faggotry
  02/07/12
basically modern libs think intellectualism means whatever w...
sickened ruddy indirect expression dopamine
  02/07/12
wow cr
Pea-brained Ceo
  02/07/12
he took a line of thinking to its logical extreme, and ended...
Pale passionate crotch
  02/07/12
TITCR
At-the-ready medicated internal respiration piazza
  02/07/12
weve moved on: http://i.imgur.com/P8OAw.jpg now thats a...
wild confused death wish coffee pot
  02/07/12
conceptual art, truly, is art for the masses, if they could ...
honey-headed liquid oxygen hunting ground
  02/07/12
banksy is the only artist who engages real people
wild confused death wish coffee pot
  02/07/12
I think Pollock paintings are beautiful. They're a sight to ...
racy library
  02/07/12
It's a very spiritual place and you definitely should.
khaki soul-stirring heaven
  02/07/12
LOL, just LOL.
At-the-ready medicated internal respiration piazza
  02/07/12
If you choose to view art only in terms of its achievement a...
racy library
  02/07/12
Separate the art from the artist = that looks like it was dr...
Lascivious blue house
  02/07/12
Rothkos are really impressive in person -- images like that ...
electric charcoal space french chef
  02/07/12
Agree it's much different, many of these paintings are huge ...
bat-shit-crazy vibrant theater stage persian
  02/07/12
I absolutely love Rothko too. What do you think about Mothe...
nofapping theater
  06/20/22
great, but the post-war intellectual milieu from which his i...
hairraiser puce friendly grandma hairy legs
  02/07/12
If it doesn't have a shiny baby Jebus I ain't lookin'
topaz corner
  02/07/12
the credited summary if u mad about this: http://www.tom...
wild confused death wish coffee pot
  02/07/12
somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash
Lascivious blue house
  02/07/12
Now THIS is painting: http://www.paintinghere.com/UploadPic...
electric charcoal space french chef
  02/07/12
Oh What a Painter!
vigorous ivory center tattoo
  02/07/12
IMO getting MAD in this day and age about Jackson fucking Po...
electric charcoal space french chef
  02/07/12
one of the more credited poasts i've seen in 10 years on thi...
vigorous ivory center tattoo
  02/07/12
link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?
nofapping theater
  06/20/22
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/02/29/arts/00newartist1...
Vermilion yarmulke
  06/20/22
lol. I was being serious
nofapping theater
  06/20/22
big fan
Aphrodisiac self-absorbed base
  06/20/22
...
Sticky bbw
  06/20/22
movie on him on netflix
bistre rehab
  02/07/12
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-...
smoky thirsty cuck tanning salon
  06/20/22
Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?
Stubborn turquoise boltzmann
  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: At-the-ready medicated internal respiration piazza

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: At-the-ready medicated internal respiration piazza

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: razzle-dazzle feces

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: Clear Private Investor Property

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: honey-headed liquid oxygen hunting ground

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: At-the-ready medicated internal respiration piazza

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: Clear Private Investor Property

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: honey-headed liquid oxygen hunting ground

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: Clear Private Investor Property

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: honey-headed liquid oxygen hunting ground

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: honey-headed liquid oxygen hunting ground

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: khaki soul-stirring heaven

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: electric charcoal space french chef

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: vigorous ivory center tattoo

(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: Fiercely-loyal Heady Set Marketing Idea

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: At-the-ready medicated internal respiration piazza

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: honey-headed liquid oxygen hunting ground

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: khaki soul-stirring heaven

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: At-the-ready medicated internal respiration piazza

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: khaki soul-stirring heaven

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: At-the-ready medicated internal respiration piazza

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: khaki soul-stirring heaven

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: Boyish milky shrine corn cake

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: Cordovan Faggotry

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: sickened ruddy indirect expression 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=2#19916248)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:47 PM
Author: Pea-brained Ceo

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: Pale passionate 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=2#19916256)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:20 PM
Author: At-the-ready medicated internal respiration piazza

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: wild confused death wish coffee pot

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: honey-headed liquid oxygen hunting ground

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: wild confused death wish coffee pot

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: racy library

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: khaki soul-stirring heaven

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: At-the-ready medicated internal respiration piazza

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: racy library

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: Lascivious blue house

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: electric charcoal space french chef

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: bat-shit-crazy vibrant theater stage persian

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: nofapping theater

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: hairraiser puce friendly grandma hairy legs

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: topaz corner

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: wild confused death wish coffee pot

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: Lascivious blue house

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: electric charcoal space french chef

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: vigorous ivory center tattoo

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: electric charcoal space french chef

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: vigorous ivory center tattoo

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: nofapping theater

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: Vermilion yarmulke

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: nofapping theater

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: Aphrodisiac self-absorbed base

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: Sticky bbw



(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: bistre rehab

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: smoky thirsty cuck tanning salon

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: Stubborn turquoise boltzmann

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)