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Jackson Pollock: great artist or flame?

Anyone can throw paint on a canvas. A five year old could do...
floppy idiot
  02/07/12
Typical Jackson Pollock painting: http://www.ibiblio.org/...
floppy idiot
  02/07/12
that's pretty dope
Stimulating Gay Potus Brethren
  02/07/12
he painted in like the 40s dood, most people had never even ...
razzmatazz mischievous senate
  02/07/12
...
Bill Richmond
  05/03/26
great cuzzz his art broke the bonds of figurative art, relea...
Infuriating toilet seat
  02/07/12
LOL @ throwing random colors at a canvas and calling it figu...
floppy idiot
  02/07/12
dcpoast can go fuck the wrong end of a tiger shark, but lol ...
razzmatazz mischievous senate
  02/07/12
u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity
Infuriating toilet seat
  02/07/12
actually i'm just expressing my highly informed opinion that...
razzmatazz mischievous senate
  02/07/12
ur beautiful when ur hungry
Infuriating toilet seat
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism is about a new birth of freedom in se...
Infuriating toilet seat
  02/07/12
abstract expressionism and nearly all avant garde art is act...
Sooty racy giraffe nowag
  02/07/12
Um, that hasn't been true for like 50 years.
Emerald medicated travel guidebook
  02/07/12
(no homily)
Mentally impaired ultramarine den ratface
  02/07/12
Pollock could also have painted really well in a more tradit...
Pearly Menage Toaster
  02/07/12
Sounds like a hack to me. I could paint like Pollock. The gu...
floppy idiot
  02/07/12
Jackson Pollock heralded the death of painting, all that's l...
Infuriating toilet seat
  06/20/22
Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.
Sooty racy giraffe nowag
  02/07/12
EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual
floppy idiot
  02/07/12
I didn't say he was...his art is. Academics took over the ...
Sooty racy giraffe nowag
  02/07/12
Ok. How would you interpret this painting? http://thefron...
floppy idiot
  02/07/12
I'm not an art critic. I'm a critic of art critics.
Sooty racy giraffe nowag
  02/07/12
lol MagicEye noob
Orange Wonderful Rehab
  02/07/12
Well that was uninformed
bipolar roommate dragon
  02/07/12
basically modern libs think intellectualism means whatever w...
crystalline pervert coffee pot
  02/07/12
wow cr
Chartreuse stead
  02/07/12
he took a line of thinking to its logical extreme, and ended...
Domesticated french crackhouse
  02/07/12
TITCR
floppy idiot
  02/07/12
weve moved on: http://i.imgur.com/P8OAw.jpg now thats a...
beady-eyed at-the-ready rigpig spot
  02/07/12
conceptual art, truly, is art for the masses, if they could ...
Infuriating toilet seat
  02/07/12
banksy is the only artist who engages real people
beady-eyed at-the-ready rigpig spot
  02/07/12
I think Pollock paintings are beautiful. They're a sight to ...
ebony excitant locale sex offender
  02/07/12
It's a very spiritual place and you definitely should.
Sooty racy giraffe nowag
  02/07/12
LOL, just LOL.
floppy idiot
  02/07/12
If you choose to view art only in terms of its achievement a...
ebony excitant locale sex offender
  02/07/12
Separate the art from the artist = that looks like it was dr...
Bearded erotic antidepressant drug
  02/07/12
Rothkos are really impressive in person -- images like that ...
Emerald medicated travel guidebook
  02/07/12
Agree it's much different, many of these paintings are huge ...
Contagious disrespectful halford library
  02/07/12
I absolutely love Rothko too. What do you think about Mothe...
Underhanded impressive piazza black woman
  06/20/22
great, but the post-war intellectual milieu from which his i...
Razzle-dazzle cocky cumskin goyim
  02/07/12
If it doesn't have a shiny baby Jebus I ain't lookin'
Multi-colored chest-beating degenerate
  02/07/12
the credited summary if u mad about this: http://www.tom...
beady-eyed at-the-ready rigpig spot
  02/07/12
somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash
Bearded erotic antidepressant drug
  02/07/12
Now THIS is painting: http://www.paintinghere.com/UploadPic...
Emerald medicated travel guidebook
  02/07/12
Oh What a Painter!
Mentally impaired ultramarine den ratface
  02/07/12
IMO getting MAD in this day and age about Jackson fucking Po...
Emerald medicated travel guidebook
  02/07/12
one of the more credited poasts i've seen in 10 years on thi...
Mentally impaired ultramarine den ratface
  02/07/12
link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?
Underhanded impressive piazza black woman
  06/20/22
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/02/29/arts/00newartist1...
arrogant mewling coldplay fan
  06/20/22
lol. I was being serious
Underhanded impressive piazza black woman
  06/20/22
big fan
Cracking federal site
  06/20/22
...
Twinkling trailer park bbw
  06/20/22
movie on him on netflix
mind-boggling umber pocket flask
  02/07/12
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-...
Scarlet stage pozpig
  06/20/22
Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?
Cerebral Mauve Location Azn
  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: floppy idiot

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...id#19916184)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:05 PM
Author: floppy idiot

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...id#19916191)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: Stimulating Gay Potus Brethren

that's pretty dope

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:07 PM
Author: razzmatazz mischievous senate

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...id#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...id#49862225)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:07 PM
Author: Infuriating toilet seat

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...id#19916202)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:08 PM
Author: floppy idiot

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...id#19916206)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:11 PM
Author: razzmatazz mischievous senate

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...id#19916216)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:14 PM
Author: Infuriating toilet seat

u r showing ur ignorance, tis a pity

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:24 PM
Author: razzmatazz mischievous senate

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...id#19916279)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:26 PM
Author: Infuriating toilet seat

ur beautiful when ur hungry

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: Infuriating toilet seat

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...id#19916221)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:18 PM
Author: Sooty racy giraffe nowag

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...id#19916252)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:09 PM
Author: Emerald medicated travel guidebook

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:48 PM
Author: Mentally impaired ultramarine den ratface

(no homily)

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:14 PM
Author: Pearly Menage Toaster

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...id#19916234)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:15 PM
Author: floppy idiot

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...id#19916239)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: Infuriating toilet seat

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...id#44713874)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:10 PM
Author: Sooty racy giraffe nowag

Triumph of intellectualism over aesthetic.

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:12 PM
Author: floppy idiot

EXPLAIN how Pollock is intellectual

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:15 PM
Author: Sooty racy giraffe nowag

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...id#19916242)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:17 PM
Author: floppy idiot

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...id#19916249)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: Sooty racy giraffe nowag

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...id#19916258)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:30 PM
Author: Orange Wonderful Rehab

lol MagicEye noob

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: bipolar roommate dragon

Well that was uninformed

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:17 PM
Author: crystalline pervert coffee pot

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...id#19916248)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:47 PM
Author: Chartreuse stead

wow cr

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:19 PM
Author: Domesticated french crackhouse

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...id#19916256)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:20 PM
Author: floppy idiot

TITCR

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:21 PM
Author: beady-eyed at-the-ready rigpig spot

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

now thats art

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:24 PM
Author: Infuriating toilet seat

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...id#19916280)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:46 PM
Author: beady-eyed at-the-ready rigpig spot

banksy is the only artist who engages real people

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:30 PM
Author: ebony excitant locale sex offender

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...id#19916298)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:31 PM
Author: Sooty racy giraffe nowag

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

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:34 PM
Author: floppy idiot

LOL, just LOL.

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 3:41 PM
Author: ebony excitant locale sex offender

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...id#19916344)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:44 PM
Author: Bearded erotic antidepressant drug

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...id#19919110)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:06 PM
Author: Emerald medicated travel guidebook

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...id#19919331)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:11 PM
Author: Contagious disrespectful halford library

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...id#19919353)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:00 PM
Author: Underhanded impressive piazza black woman

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...id#44713666)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:41 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle cocky cumskin goyim

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...id#19919089)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:44 PM
Author: Multi-colored chest-beating degenerate

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...id#19919114)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:46 PM
Author: beady-eyed at-the-ready rigpig spot

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...id#19919139)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 10:49 PM
Author: Bearded erotic antidepressant drug

somebody teach this fucker about the em-dash

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:07 PM
Author: Emerald medicated travel guidebook

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...id#19919333)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:42 PM
Author: Mentally impaired ultramarine den ratface

Oh What a Painter!

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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:12 PM
Author: Emerald medicated travel guidebook

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...id#19919361)



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:43 PM
Author: Mentally impaired ultramarine den ratface

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...id#19919600)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:03 PM
Author: Underhanded impressive piazza black woman

link to some of the awesomely awesome contemporary painters?

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:07 PM
Author: arrogant mewling coldplay fan

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...id#44713691)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:41 PM
Author: Underhanded impressive piazza black woman

lol. I was being serious

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: Cracking federal site

big fan

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:44 PM
Author: Twinkling trailer park bbw



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



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Date: February 7th, 2012 11:13 PM
Author: mind-boggling umber pocket flask

movie on him on netflix

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



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Date: June 20th, 2022 3:23 PM
Author: Scarlet stage pozpig

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...id#44713016)



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Date: June 20th, 2022 5:48 PM
Author: Cerebral Mauve Location Azn

Anybody ever been to the Clyfford Still museum in Denver?

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