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Jackson Pollock: great artist or flame?

Anyone can throw paint on a canvas. A five year old could do...
shimmering pervert
  02/07/12
Typical Jackson Pollock painting: http://www.ibiblio.org/...
shimmering pervert
  02/07/12
that's pretty dope
Haunting yarmulke
  02/07/12
he painted in like the 40s dood, most people had never even ...
odious salmon parlor
  02/07/12
...
Bill Richmond
  05/03/26
great cuzzz his art broke the bonds of figurative art, relea...
geriatric institution
  02/07/12
LOL @ throwing random colors at a canvas and calling it figu...
shimmering pervert
  02/07/12
dcpoast can go fuck the wrong end of a tiger shark, but lol ...
odious salmon parlor
  02/07/12
u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity
geriatric institution
  02/07/12
actually i'm just expressing my highly informed opinion that...
odious salmon parlor
  02/07/12
ur beautiful when ur hungry
geriatric institution
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism is about a new birth of freedom in se...
geriatric institution
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism and nearly all avant garde art is act...
Up-to-no-good theater keepsake machete
  02/07/12
Um, that hasn't been true for like 50 years.
snowy laughsome hairy legs
  02/07/12
(no homily)
hyperactive garnet candlestick maker crackhouse
  02/07/12
Pollock could also have painted really well in a more tradit...
Razzle-dazzle canary blood rage headpube
  02/07/12
Sounds like a hack to me. I could paint like Pollock. The gu...
shimmering pervert
  02/07/12
Jackson Pollock heralded the death of painting, all that's l...
geriatric institution
  06/20/22
Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.
Up-to-no-good theater keepsake machete
  02/07/12
EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual
shimmering pervert
  02/07/12
I didn't say he was...his art is. Academics took over the ...
Up-to-no-good theater keepsake machete
  02/07/12
Ok. How would you interpret this painting? http://thefron...
shimmering pervert
  02/07/12
I'm not an art critic. I'm a critic of art critics.
Up-to-no-good theater keepsake machete
  02/07/12
lol MagicEye noob
nubile school cafeteria clown
  02/07/12
Well that was uninformed
Violent Boyish Cuckoldry Abode
  02/07/12
basically modern libs think intellectualism means whatever w...
passionate gold chad
  02/07/12
wow cr
multi-colored halford piazza
  02/07/12
he took a line of thinking to its logical extreme, and ended...
flickering sneaky criminal
  02/07/12
TITCR
shimmering pervert
  02/07/12
weve moved on: http://i.imgur.com/P8OAw.jpg now thats a...
costumed legal warrant
  02/07/12
conceptual art, truly, is art for the masses, if they could ...
geriatric institution
  02/07/12
banksy is the only artist who engages real people
costumed legal warrant
  02/07/12
I think Pollock paintings are beautiful. They're a sight to ...
excitant lilac affirmative action
  02/07/12
It's a very spiritual place and you definitely should.
Up-to-no-good theater keepsake machete
  02/07/12
LOL, just LOL.
shimmering pervert
  02/07/12
If you choose to view art only in terms of its achievement a...
excitant lilac affirmative action
  02/07/12
Separate the art from the artist = that looks like it was dr...
twinkling federal area
  02/07/12
Rothkos are really impressive in person -- images like that ...
snowy laughsome hairy legs
  02/07/12
Agree it's much different, many of these paintings are huge ...
sick fanboi heaven
  02/07/12
I absolutely love Rothko too. What do you think about Mothe...
Infuriating zombie-like field
  06/20/22
great, but the post-war intellectual milieu from which his i...
sexy pocket flask
  02/07/12
If it doesn't have a shiny baby Jebus I ain't lookin'
Glassy Cerebral House Mediation
  02/07/12
the credited summary if u mad about this: http://www.tom...
costumed legal warrant
  02/07/12
somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash
twinkling federal area
  02/07/12
Now THIS is painting: http://www.paintinghere.com/UploadPic...
snowy laughsome hairy legs
  02/07/12
Oh What a Painter!
hyperactive garnet candlestick maker crackhouse
  02/07/12
IMO getting MAD in this day and age about Jackson fucking Po...
snowy laughsome hairy legs
  02/07/12
one of the more credited poasts i've seen in 10 years on thi...
hyperactive garnet candlestick maker crackhouse
  02/07/12
link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?
Infuriating zombie-like field
  06/20/22
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/02/29/arts/00newartist1...
Beta Maniacal Shitlib
  06/20/22
lol. I was being serious
Infuriating zombie-like field
  06/20/22
big fan
Brass Titillating Corn Cake
  06/20/22
...
Magenta elastic band resort
  06/20/22
movie on him on netflix
frisky lavender jew
  02/07/12
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-...
heady amber faggot firefighter
  06/20/22
Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?
Contagious henna selfie private investor
  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: shimmering pervert

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: shimmering pervert

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: Haunting yarmulke

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: odious salmon parlor

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: geriatric institution

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: shimmering pervert

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: odious salmon parlor

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: geriatric institution

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: odious salmon parlor

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: geriatric institution

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: geriatric institution

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: Up-to-no-good theater keepsake machete

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: snowy laughsome hairy legs

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: hyperactive garnet candlestick maker crackhouse

(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: Razzle-dazzle canary blood rage headpube

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: shimmering pervert

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: geriatric institution

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: Up-to-no-good theater keepsake machete

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: shimmering pervert

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: Up-to-no-good theater keepsake machete

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: shimmering pervert

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: Up-to-no-good theater keepsake machete

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: nubile school cafeteria clown

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: Violent Boyish Cuckoldry Abode

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: passionate gold chad

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: multi-colored halford piazza

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: flickering sneaky criminal

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: shimmering pervert

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: costumed legal warrant

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: geriatric institution

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: costumed legal warrant

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: excitant lilac affirmative action

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: Up-to-no-good theater keepsake machete

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: shimmering pervert

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: excitant lilac affirmative action

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: twinkling federal area

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: snowy laughsome hairy legs

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: sick fanboi heaven

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: Infuriating zombie-like field

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: sexy pocket flask

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: Glassy Cerebral House Mediation

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: costumed legal warrant

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: twinkling federal area

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: snowy laughsome hairy legs

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: hyperactive garnet candlestick maker crackhouse

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: snowy laughsome hairy legs

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: hyperactive garnet candlestick maker crackhouse

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: Infuriating zombie-like field

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: Beta Maniacal Shitlib

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: Infuriating zombie-like field

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: Brass Titillating Corn Cake

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: Magenta elastic band resort



(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: frisky lavender jew

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: heady amber faggot firefighter

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: Contagious henna selfie private investor

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)