friendship ended with LITERARY TWITTER now ART TWITTER is my new friend

literary twitter feeds good and bad

^^^no (the paradise lost bot hasn't updated for 18 months ffs)

Falcon. Illustration for the epic "Volga", 1927 #bilibin #ivanbilibin pic.twitter.com/RF0oTdkBcJ

— Ivan Bilibin (@IvanBilibin) January 29, 2022

Illustration to "A Week of Kindness", 1934 #surrealism #maxernst pic.twitter.com/6dkTWPXcfE

— Max Ernst (@artisternst) January 28, 2022

Untitled, 1930 #escher #surrealism pic.twitter.com/jXGmbBQP9u

— M.C. Escher (@artistescher) January 28, 2022

Embroidering the Earth's mantle, 1961 #surrealism #varo pic.twitter.com/LIZr2AECjc

— Remedios Varo (@artistvaro) January 28, 2022

it began to spring up en masse maybe a year ago? they all busily retweet one another which is handy and also friendly. just as milton once did (grrrr) they calm yr TL down a LOT

the ernst sequence has powerful alice vibes, the escher is good at throwing up some of his straighter figurative work, bilibin i first encountered in the larousse mythology, the varo features in the crying of lost 49…

match seller, 1920 #ottodix #dix pic.twitter.com/RPeLUwDh8w

— Otto Dix (@artistottodix) January 23, 2022

BAG OF DIX :D

sometimes you do need a break from seeing stupid centrist hacks getting dunked on

Olga Tuleninova@olgatuleninova is good art account, they post a lot of art and much of it is bad but I like loads of bad art as well!

been following this Louise Bourgeois fan account for a while now, it's good

Louise Bourgeois, Plate 7 of 11, from the illustrated book, He Disappeared into Complete Silence, second edition, 1995-1999 https://t.co/98cGEluy47 #museumarchive #museumofmodernart pic.twitter.com/Eda2JbBhyH

— Louise Bourgeois (@artistbourgeois) January 29, 2022

i was looking at some works by miró b4 he was cap-m Miró and thinking "i wish we got to see more of this stuff also"

ditto early pollock which is cartoonier than its abstract and also grebt

the avant garde? always be posting

early Rothko before and after he fell out with surrealism is rather good

Philip Guston, Bad Times, 1970 https://t.co/OyPI1mEoE4 #artinstituteofchicago #philipguston pic.twitter.com/ahiYunJhGN

— Philip Guston (@PhilipGustonArt) January 19, 2022

this guy also had strong stuff in the larousse mythology book

Conceptio artis, 1894 #akseligallenkallela #symbolism pic.twitter.com/Hijo4E3F6X

— Akseli Gallen-Kallela (@AkseliGallenArt) January 26, 2022

I need to follow more of these; the only one I follow at the moment is Egon Schiele:

Boy with Hand to Face, 1910 #expressionism #schiele pic.twitter.com/R0iLT1z11U

— Egon Schiele (@artistschiele) January 29, 2022

Untitled, 1953 #twombly #cytwombly pic.twitter.com/E0v24mAFFa

— Cy Twombly (@artisttwombly) January 29, 2022

some more Dix

it me:

Portrait of himself in bed, 1894 #aubreybeardsley #artnouveau pic.twitter.com/aMX7bzyofC

— Aubrey Beardsley (@artistbeardsley) January 25, 2022

I do like a lot of the non-goth album covers of Munch and some of them as well tbf. Can't remember where I read or heard that he would sometimes leave canvases outside his studio and dogs would piss against them and any damage they suffered was part of his process. Although could just be making it up!

it's not art until the dogpiss arrives
— arthur c. danto

simpkin is one sinister fuck, we absolutely do not know the whole story here

Simpkin at the Tailor’s Bedside, 1902 #beatrixpotter #potter pic.twitter.com/Fl2lgXvcoD

— Beatrix Potter (@BtrixPotter) January 22, 2022

i feel like this is often the case w/beatrix potter tbrr

Thomas Pynchon needs to RT that Remedios Varo painting.

when my sister and i were kids we had a large set of those cards you turn face down and then try and turn up in pairs. this was one of the pictures:

The Goldfish, 1925 https://t.co/9V2OvyUC9d #klee #expressionism pic.twitter.com/dVwJSJLe2y

— Paul Klee (@artistklee) February 5, 2022

Klee was a marvel, can never get enough of his work on my feed.

https://twitter.com/rabihalameddine

museum bots are nice for this too

lately this stuff is just about the only bright spot on the site

i may or may not like the daggers for reasons other than the craftsmanship, who can say?

Dagger (Khanjarli), 17th–18th century https://t.co/uPUbxaKcjP #metmuseum #themet pic.twitter.com/M7syoqRSo9

— The Met: Arms and Armor (@met_armsarmor) January 30, 2022

That’ll hurt

Cat and Kittens #sōsakuhanga #saito pic.twitter.com/VhpTzx3VIw

— Saitō Kiyoshi (@SaitoArtist) January 30, 2022

https://i.imgur.com/iIbSyWz.png

same

Unpleasant Surprise (Mauvaise surprise) by Henri Rousseau https://t.co/iRtKziQlC8 #henrirousseau #thebarnes pic.twitter.com/9v40CiRrTv

— Barnes Collection (@the_barnes_bot) February 1, 2022

Saturn Devouring His Son, 1823 #goya #romanticism pic.twitter.com/DwMRr4nKYE

— Francisco Goya (@artistgoya) February 6, 2022

this is what you need on a monday morning

i don't know what 'a week of kindness' is, and i don't intend to find out, but the ernst illustrations, which the bot posts often, are really something

i follow ernst, twombly, tate bot, a couple of moma ones (sculpture, drawings and prints), harvard sculpture bot, art institute of chicago, gerhard richter, frank stella, brice marden, agnes martin, elaine de kooning, sol lewitt, joan mitchell, maybe some others

breaks up the wordle, nft, starmer, joe rogan churn; and yeah i also now see less terrible articles in the white review being given courtesy RTs

Portrait of Uncle Dominique as a Monk, 1866 #paulcezanne #cezanne pic.twitter.com/k6ZMZsHcvq

— Paul Cezanne (@cezanneart) February 7, 2022

he had a very sludgy impasto style in his early works, but he got better as he got older - an inspiration to us all!

I love Cezanne's use of colour, the most vivid of the (post)impressionists for me

Manet up there as well

The Departure Of The Folkestone Boat, 1869 #edouardmanet #manet pic.twitter.com/Kg0RH26TDp

— Edouard Manet (@artistmanet) February 7, 2022

love the sculptural qualities of Cezanne's mont st victoire studies which frequently pop up in my feed.

I went to L'Estaque near Marseille a while back, another place that Cezanne obsessively studied, and you could understand why

i like all the qworks that are vmnic tbh

i call them qworks

Oh i follow so many of these twitter art bots, and it's a lovely experience to scroll through twitter of an evening. One notable discovery through them was this feller
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Vereshchagin

A Shy Peasant, 1877 #realism #repin pic.twitter.com/jUoMAdg5Kg

— Ilya Repin (@artistilyarepin) February 7, 2022

oh no:

Innfoedte Av Majoristammen, 1894 #theodorseverinkittelsen #kittelsen pic.twitter.com/SyAu5Dw4yV

— Theodor Kittelsen (@ArtistKittelsen) February 1, 2022

into this llama that looks kind of like a koons

Inka, Llama Figurine, 1476–1534 https://t.co/uaN4wxUxJQ #artmuseum #stlartmuseum pic.twitter.com/KiKYA3FGis

— SLAM: Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas (@slam_african) January 30, 2022

i am a sucker for quotidian / traditional paintings of american west landscapes. except charles russell he can go fuck himself.

Albert Bierstadt, Surveyor’s Wagon in the Rockies, c.1859 https://t.co/uWXCJFbtS9 #museumarchive #stlartmuseum pic.twitter.com/1GPPUdgFDl

— SLAM: American Art (@slam_american) January 17, 2022

Olga Tuleninova@olgatuleninova is good art account, they post a lot of art and much of it is bad but I like loads of bad art as well!

― calzino, Saturday, January 29, 2022 1:50 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

indeed, i love accounts that go between the two, i'm in a facebook one i can't remember the name of.

uh oh

The Inferno, Canto 19 #gustavedore #dore pic.twitter.com/yzQUGgO3WX

— Gustave Doré (@artistdore) January 25, 2022

Dante is saying "sucks to be you" iirc

the edwardian imaginary:

Dreamer of Dreams by the Queen of Romania #artnouveau #edmunddulac pic.twitter.com/RoU4UyRJtN

— Edmund Dulac (@Edmund_Dulac) February 12, 2022

Arthur Rackham, Snowdrop and Other Tales by the Brothers Grimm, 1920 https://t.co/zgVwvgcE9S #minneapolisinstituteofart #arthurrackham pic.twitter.com/2AKFkQ9AOU

— Arthur Rackham (@ArthurRackham) February 10, 2022

Painter in Bed, 1973 https://t.co/9LmhSCBruP #philipguston #neoexpressionism pic.twitter.com/80U91Ci0Pw

— Philip Guston (@PhilipGustonArt) February 26, 2022

a thing i guess i'd like to write up one day is how much some modern art reminds me of illustrated children's books from when i was very small

The Poetess, 1940 #surrealism #joanmiro pic.twitter.com/DXVIDc6wG6

— Joan Miró (@artist_miro) February 21, 2022

arnolfini and his heckin smol pupperino

Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami (The Arnolfini Marriage) (detail), 1434 #janvaneyck #northernrenaissance pic.twitter.com/KEH35piLIg

— Jan van Eyck (@artistvaneyck) February 28, 2022

a thing i guess i'd like to write up one day is how much some modern art reminds me of illustrated children's books from when i was very small

I did a Twitter thread about this several years ago (I've deleted my socials since). It showed "post-painterly" abstractions by Helen Frankenthaler which are strikingly visually similar to Leo Lionni's illustrations for 'Little Blue and Yellow'.

https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/art-talk/helen-frankenthaler/Parade-RobMcKeever.jpg/@@images/5a742276-18c5-45da-9ef1-4d0924ff1397.jpeg

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b7/e8/3c/b7e83c93f7fe8c9677267a8fde236cd2.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDoPRD4QnEk

What impressed me was that taken on their own, Lionni's illustrations are fully abstract; a biomorphic reading is drawn from the text. IIRC 'Little Blue and Yellow' actually predates the Frankenthalers by several years. Kids' books were avant garde af.

Anyway, he doesn't have a Twitter afaik, but follow Stephen Ellcock if you're on facebook.

Recreating Hieronymus Bosch pic.twitter.com/FtkuWJ5TlU

— Adrian Black (@MsAdrianBlack) March 5, 2022

mark, this thread has massively improved my timeline, thanking u

Courteous Passivity, 1935 #romanianart #surrealism pic.twitter.com/ldVCmE0AcG

— Victor Brauner (@artistbrauner) March 6, 2022

ooooh, I like that one a lot.

and yes, I've been enjoying this thread as well. I don't like to have too many bots/non-people on my feed, but i did add cy twombly and egon schiele and a couple other megafaves

I'm realizing there are lots of surrealists I like and have never heard of

My friend Agustin Lazo, 1945 #varo #remediosvaro pic.twitter.com/eP8NdzbJsw

— Remedios Varo (@artistvaro) February 27, 2022

yes it seems to get off-canon pretty quickly, which is an aspect of it that i really like -- just scads of material and of artists that you don't ordinarily see much of

also to deflatormouse: the "little blue little yellow" book looks great and is exactly the jind of thing i had in mind

Remedios Varo is one of my all-timers, top5 probably

It's hard not to notice these more obscure surrealists that keep popping up are much better artists than some of the obvious brand name celeb ones like Dali and Magritte. I get quite annoyed when my other art accounts RT anything by those two pretenders!

I think Varo, Carrington, Fini and others were actually huge in mexico, south america but they're only getting their due in the rest of the world recently. There's one whose name I keep forgetting who was married to a prime minister, shot him and turned herself in immediately, can never remember her name but she doesn't have a huge amount online.

Actually he wasn't a prime minister
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sof%C3%ADa_Bassi

oh boy I love Varos

Abut https://t.co/JrwETC5cwr #varo #surrealism pic.twitter.com/Bn5fublncR

— Remedios Varo (@artistvaro) March 14, 2022

i followed a tintoretto account because of the new destroyer song, and now i learn that, in the song, it's his term for his pretentious younger self lol. can't say i've been impressed with what i see from the tintoretto account but then i'm a bit bewildered by renaissance era painting generally.

varo, i'm not sure about tbh, feel like it might take seeing some of these canvases in person since there are inlays and such?

the accounts i'm most taken with are like post-impressionist realists (i keep seeing ivan shishkin paintings i really like), making me think that maybe my tastes are more basic and aligned with thomas kinkade ism than i might care to admit.

i.e. that landscape is so pretty and look at that cozy cottage omg

Mother and Eva, 1935 #verism #dix pic.twitter.com/jAC4RjiwWu

— Otto Dix (@artistottodix) March 14, 2022

I like Otto Dix a lot, not just the savage war stuff. Like here where he mixes a bit of real German gothic with some overdone Renoir style twee.

Varos hits some personal sweet spot I can't quite put into words, but I would def like to see some in person too

good landscape painting is underrated in 2022 imho. I think my basic follow is a Caspar David Friedrich bot, like I know all the reasons to be suspect but I cannot help but liking moody forests and sublime sunsets

that Dix is nauseating in a v powerful way (not a bad thing)

one sort of in vogue inscrutable artist i am totally blown away by though is philip guston, those are some mean-ass paintings, i didn't know painting could be so mean.

liking that otto dix account, some wild stuff

relatable

Illustration to "A Week of Kindness", 1934 #ernst #maxernst pic.twitter.com/eOw7t3o9z1

— Max Ernst (@artisternst) March 15, 2022

i take it back re tintoretto this is hot

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FN6MdrDXwAUikvZ?format=jpg&name=large

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FN6MdrDXwAUikvZ?format=jpg&name=large

I really like Varo (and have seen some in person!) but sometimes she's a bit too smooth in her work, imo. A little too "fantasy illustration". The stuff I like I do adore, though.

I'm assuming the Varo fans itt would either know or be interested in Carrington also?

Operation Wednesday, 1969 #carrington #leonoracarrington pic.twitter.com/u7KskNOxWX

— Leonora Carrington (@LCarrington_Art) February 13, 2022

sorry for sharing my own tweet but it's funny i swear

"you wake up at 2 am for a whey protein shake don't you fuccboi" https://t.co/HI2PZxPDdf

— Matt Pierce (@manthonyslc) March 15, 2022

Not quite but this is top tier art tweet critic

damn they was on Julius ass for real pic.twitter.com/Xw1jb4Vcqz

— Hanif Abdurraqib (@NifMuhammad) March 15, 2021

this is the only day yr allowed to derail my nice thread with ides of march memes

Beware the Ides of March! #IdesOfMarch pic.twitter.com/kzgDEOYiug

— Classical Studies Memɘs for Hellenistic Teens (@CSMFHT) March 15, 2022

Thank you for being nice to me

this guy's great (the peeking fellow with the beard and mustache is a portrait of the artist, and his self-portraits are worth looking out for)

intermezzo #polishart #malczewski pic.twitter.com/wgjfwG5AIw

— Jacek Malczewski (@art_malczewski) March 13, 2022

grebt polish feet pix

Death of Ellenai #polishart #jacekmalczewski pic.twitter.com/8pfUOtKpki

— Jacek Malczewski (@art_malczewski) March 17, 2022

oh no

Locked in Ice, 1882 #romanticism #bradford pic.twitter.com/Gufo88U1Zp

— William Bradford (@ArtistWBradford) March 16, 2022

these lads loved the franklin expedition

relatable

Little Girl With Cat, 1889 https://t.co/FcuU5fES0t #theophilesteinlen #steinlen pic.twitter.com/pbgIqFFQp8

— Theophile Steinlen (@artist_steinlen) February 19, 2022

TÊTE DE CLOWN, 9×11in, Sold for $20,000 USD #georgesrouault https://t.co/s3LIVSb1dq pic.twitter.com/flroz8A7SU

— Georges Rouault (@rouaultgeorges) July 19, 2016

you can pick up a Georges Rouault painting for the price of half a Tesla these days. I know which I'd prefer (the Tesla obv lol). No I like his stuff that is obv influenced by his early career in stained glass windows. I recall a quote in a book I was browsing in the college library 30 years ago where he says something like he's not interested in being a famous artist and quite content to plug away at his thing in "sweet obscurity".

might be too basic for you all, but the Bosch bot that posts details is fun and the most bot-y of the bots I follow (in that sometimes the details are not interesting at all):

pic.twitter.com/DBqltLOOye

— BoschBot (@boschbot) March 18, 2022

funnel-hat rabbit be like —<|:O

the breughel bot is also good IF YOU LOVE TWIGS AGAINST THE BLEAK GREY SKY

does this count:

My son has just finished a painting that is called, "The Consequences of Showing Watership Down to Your Young Children".

I am both proud and ashamed. pic.twitter.com/ZxfLfHUKL4

— Guy Walters 🇺🇦 (@guywalters) March 16, 2022

bosch bot is all time imo

the wikipedia entry on bosch scholarship talks about how the line used to be that bosch was basically a pervert who trolled everyone. now of course scholars know better and agree that bosch's paintings are in line with religious and social teachings and mores of the time. but frankly i choose to believe the pervert troll theory.

religious and social teachings and mores of the time

created by an entire institution of pervert trolls

exactly

this is what you look like

Caricature, 1500 https://t.co/A0LhfFfOXI #davinci #highrenaissance pic.twitter.com/n7SfbeQ3lp

— Leonardo da Vinci (@ArtistDaVinci) March 21, 2022

Painting of Pikachu by Caravaggio pic.twitter.com/aIRFI7uRkv

— James Kelleher (@etienneshrdlu) March 26, 2022

1659 painting by Elisabetta Sirani depicting Timocleia of Thebes pushing the Thracian captain who raped her into a well #WomensArt pic.twitter.com/QZgRw5Y7RZ

— #WOMENSART (@womensart1) April 5, 2022

Timocleia OTM

‘The dog with the eyes as big as saucers’. From ‘The Tinder-Box’, illustrated by H J Ford, in Andrew Lang’s Yellow Fairy Book (1894). #FairyTaleTuesday pic.twitter.com/ZIpEKXIpV0

— Dr. Deborah Allison (@DeborahUK) September 7, 2021

the soldIer fills his knapsack with MONEY

not from twitter but ilxor needs a working version of this which when i posted it 20 yrs ago made doorag go "yikes"

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/Yellow_Fairy_Book-The_Witch_in_the_Stone_Boat1.jpg

> Andrew Lang’s Yellow Fairy Book

i just found those on Project Gutenberg the other week when his name came up as an editor for something else. there are dozens, all different colours.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30580/30580-h/30580-h.htm

yup there's 12, green first, lilac last

Is it just coz I’m on a phone that pictures don’t load on ILX anymore?

pictures from twitter take a long time if there's a lot of them

there's also a 'don't load any pictures' preference that you might've set and forgotten. (also, west london represent!)

Thank you sir! West London forever!

once i showed this pic to a friend and she yelled THAT'S A PICTURE OF MY DAD

Baba Yaga. Illustration for the fairy tale "Vasilisa the Beautiful", 1900 #bilibin #artnouveau pic.twitter.com/5rJl7Z4Bte

— Ivan Bilibin (@IvanBilibin) April 4, 2022

baba yaga hurtling along in a pestle and mortar as you do

yikes

Untitled #surrealism #zdislavbeksinski pic.twitter.com/c98wMEN2dD

— Zdzisław Beksiński (@ArtistBeksinski) April 11, 2022

thomas the tank engine in your worst motherfucking nightmare

Untitled #surrealism #zdislavbeksinski pic.twitter.com/wPD0Lm6uBt

— Zdzisław Beksiński (@ArtistBeksinski) April 11, 2022

:0

Just on my TL now..

El Lissitzky, New Man (Neuer), 1923 https://t.co/s6OqQ1K5t8 #ellissitzky #brooklynmuseum pic.twitter.com/cd8cRFt8dX

— El Lissitzky (@ElLissitzky_Art) April 12, 2022

much to ponder

The Goblin, 1820 #williamblake #blake pic.twitter.com/cnltkKC4mC

— William Blake (@artist_blake) April 12, 2022

Am I a monster for liking Blake’s art much more than his poetry?

on this thread no

i dont get it https://t.co/EXebLyoMmt

— david c. porter (becoming) (@toomuchistrue) April 14, 2022

pic.twitter.com/Gf4NwVcWxy

— ufobot (@ufob0t) April 14, 2022

maybesomekindof
ppppppimpppppppmobile operation

— BabyAWACS KISS Chris (@dubengeldu) April 14, 2022

thats right

Walter Molino (1915-1997) "il gatto infuriato" pic.twitter.com/DX8CvfiPby

— Ansis Puriņš (@ANSISPURINS) April 19, 2022

lol this guy did panels for LOOK AND LEARN magazine is the 60s and 70s, tho i haven't found one i actually recognise from reading it at the time

they weren't usually quite as striking as this (it was an earnest publication) tho did often featured animals

losing it at this 15th century drawing of a man being poked in the eyeball by a demon, he looks SO unamused pic.twitter.com/vRwBaWkmqo

— weird medieval guys (@WeirdMedieval) April 27, 2022

this amusing details of medieval illustrations account is so good

it is lol

The Flight of the dragonfly in Front of the Sun #miro #abstractexpressionism pic.twitter.com/XbiM5z0xu6

— Joan Miró (@artist_miro) May 1, 2022

tfw everyone involved is a massive goth

The Fall of the House of Usher, 1895 https://t.co/UTLahDeFHZ #artnouveau #aubreybeardsley pic.twitter.com/hFnxsrBxJj

— Aubrey Beardsley (@artistbeardsley) May 8, 2022

was disappointed to hear that bullshit from some US museums over the Guston shows. If you can't see that his work is powered by despair and the recurrent Klan themes in his work are not promoting them, then it shows how ill thought out + insincere the corporate support, performative sensitivity towards black ppl post-BLM is from these institutions. Probably wrong thread!

John Ruskin, 1853 #millais #realism https://t.co/E0gzP0Xq6u pic.twitter.com/xnun778R8a

— John Everett Millais (@artistmillais) May 31, 2022

^^^look at this doofus

lol, he does look like a total nobhead in old b+w photos as well

just calmly standing by the stream as I normally do (looking like a prat and thinking deep thoughts)

Lonely guy just thinking baout pubes

that also could apply to Lucian Freud!

he was the first rock critic!

(wrote lots abt mountains, how they were good not bad and also how ppl shouldn't climb up them bcz that sucked)

It's important (read: impotent) to wear a necktie when contemplating a jolly fast stream.

🕷I own an original model sheet from ‘Cobweb Hotel’🕷
.
It’s been my mission to get this one saved from the vault! #Animation #FleischerStudios pic.twitter.com/oaA268MQ0B

— Max Fleischer Cartoons (@fleischertoons) June 10, 2022

ripped flea 🤩

The Ghost of a Flea, 1820 #williamblake #symbolism https://t.co/5ifL4LclBZ pic.twitter.com/Rg0kmnI1hB

— William Blake (@artist_blake) June 20, 2022

howdy

The Madonna of Canon van der Paele (detail), 1436 #northernrenaissance #belgianart https://t.co/EyI64sM4XI pic.twitter.com/fcIWPHNuku

— Jan van Eyck (@artistvaneyck) June 27, 2022

this thread is directly responsible for me following a bunch of surrealist artists i wasn't that familiar with, and i just have to say - rene magritte seems very bad to me, i must be missing something.

salvador dali is not my bag generally speaking but a few things that have come across my feed have impressed me.

John Singer Sargent has been my big revelation after subscribing to various drawing/museum bots (also thanks to this thread)

I was in NYC on my birthday in 2015 and one of my best friends (who lives there) asked me if I wanted to see the Sargent show at the Met with her. She’s into art, yeah, but she never seemed to type to want to see a Sargent show. Anyway, I agreed and when we met outside the museum, she told me she’d already seen the show twice and that it was her favorite show of the year— and then we went in, and it totally blew me away. Fantastic exhibition, just exquisite. Made me a Sargent stan for life.

https://www.metmuseum.org/press/exhibitions/2015/sargent

tfw yr a SYMBOLIST

Fata Morgana, 1865 #watts #georgefrederickwatts https://t.co/HxYBozQdbR pic.twitter.com/Hi5ulUZ3P0

— George Frederick Watts (@artist_watts) June 24, 2022

I put Sargent up there with Velazquez as a portraitist (*whispers* maybe higher). And El Jaleo is so great:

El Jaleo, 1882 #sargent #johnsingersargent https://t.co/LLbxhcH1uV pic.twitter.com/KAeGhJCdMC

— John Singer Sargent (@artistsargent) June 26, 2022

Love the musician in the background in ecstasy at this jam.

following JSS now, thanks thread!

And thanks to user emil.y for mentioning Leonora Carrington upthread. I knew who she was but really didn't know her work at all

Green Tea, 1942 #surrealism #carrington https://t.co/rEDZicDCaE pic.twitter.com/cfD4D9Jpjy

— Leonora Carrington (@LCarrington_Art) June 30, 2022

this thread is directly responsible for me following a bunch of surrealist artists i wasn't that familiar with, and i just have to say - rene magritte seems very bad to me, i must be missing something.

― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Tuesday, June 28, 2022 8:46 PM (two days ago)

I think I was exposed to Magritte at too impressionable age to not like him (he's great for young people getting into art: easy to see what he's doing and what's different about it compared to realism), but it is a very uptight version of surrealism, a little too linear really. Also one of the worst museum show experiences of my life was a Magritte show at the Art Institute of Chicago—not because of the work though, it was so incredibly crowded I was on the brink of a claustrophobic meltdown the entire time

Also on the JSS tip, highly, highly recommend visiting the JSS murals at the Boston Public Library which are absolutely incredible:

John Singer Sargent - 'Pagan Gods' ceiling mural for Boston Public Library (c.1892) pic.twitter.com/f8j5UiZA8p

— The Séance (@TheSeanceRadio) January 24, 2019

Images don't do it justice, the originals are huge.

Dali and Magritte were both terrible painters. I know you are supposed view this stuff with some historical context, but they both evoke the A level art I recall seeing on display at school to me. Which was probably just stupid kids copying them (or Francis Bacon) tbf. I think sometimes in the world of 20th century painting people made it because they had an easily identifiable style rather than being any good. Margritte was a crude talent and not in a good way and is just doing the same predictable shit over and over again. Dali was just an egomaniac with an average commercial illustrator skillset who chatted a lot of shite!

^^^ceci n'est pas une post

I am just going to paint a hat made of clouds against a background sky made out of hats and this is my manifesto!

lol I can't really argue with any of that tbh. There's also the thing with 20th c. artists where if you're the first (or are perceived to be) to have an idea you get immortalized as a genius even if your one idea is pretty thin.

I do think the bowler hat thing gets at a "the surrealism of 20th c. bureaucracy" idea that I like in other works too, which might explain my soft spot

I like Magritte too, the Magritte museum in Brussels has (as you would expect) a lot of his lesser-known works, which often have a De Chirico-like blankness and lack of effect which makes them feel eerie. I'm not usually a fan of surrealism but the cumulative effect was real, for me at least.

https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/images/.width-340_wqOMQ7R.jpg

his mind would have been blown by 21st century face-swapping apps

I was about ready to defend his use of color and realized I was thinking of Matisse.

Matisse was the probably the only post-impressionist I've got a lifelong love for

extra "the" in there because I was going to post Matisse was the fucking Don!

lmao

Lmfao do you like anything, Calzino?

Magritte is great, Dali has some baller paintings, too.

there's loads of painters I love. Just from this thread alone. I'm into Klee, Guston, Miro, Cezanne, Dix, Twombly, Rothko. I just hate loads of them as well and unfortunately I'm probably just as shit at criticising art as I am enthusing about it!

Fucking love Klee and Cezanne. Bought a gorgeous Klee book last month. Agree that Magritte is terrible!

When I was a textile design student I used to do knockoff Klee quite often, even painstakingly mixing the gouache until I had the best match for his colours. His colour sense you could copy but his beautifully simple drawing style was something you can't imitate though!

Magritte makes dead paintings, you could describe one to me I've never seen and I could probably visualise almost an approximate image of what it looks like it in my mind.

yes I'm talking about him in the present tense, because someone told that is what real art critics do!

does anyone want to go in on picasso?? overrated in my very uninformed opinion.

he's a bit like Christian Ronaldo, you can admit he was an impressive talent and amazingly prolific without professing any love for the horrible man. From the cubist era, my controp is I preferred Braque. There is something simultaneously impressive and totally soulless about him. But Guernica was a str8 banger I will have to admit!

I do agree that Magritte is the lifeless corpse of surrealism, but i think like someone else here, I was first exposed to him as a five or six year old and it blew my mind.

haven’t thought about him or his work in years fwiw

sorry I don't mean to be a buzzkill here and am probably wittering on too much

no i love it. you know what book i love? the big coffee table MAX ERNST COLLAGES book that i got for 1$ at a rural library’s annual sale. Speaking of surrealism.

he had some kind of "frottage" technique of painting didn't he? I can't remember what that actually means, but recall reading it decades ago in a art history book.

max ernst is da bomb

the max ernst twitter account has been showing us bookplates lately

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FVE9puIWYAYq6W1?format=jpg&name=large

hell yeah

yes I'm talking about him in the present tense, because someone told that is what real art critics do!

― calzino, Thursday, June 30, 2022 6:08 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

They mostly dish out art-world gossip these days afaict.

Saw the Dix show at the Neue Galerie maybe ten years ago. Didn't know anything about him and came away totally stunned.

it's always such a delight when this bot posts one of the Chicago Imagists

Jim Nutt, Miss E. Knows, 1967 #contemporaryart #jimnutt https://t.co/UPur1e5Jkc pic.twitter.com/8JDhQPLOGS

— AIC: Contemporary Art (Bot) (@aic_contemp) June 29, 2022

hal foster piece on a magritte biog in the LRB: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n13/hal-foster/massive-egg

not really a foster stan and i've only read as far as the obligatory paragraph on magritte's mother's (CN:) suicide when he was 13 and RM's disavowal of this as an element of content: "no one can say whether the death of my mother had an influence or not" (correct of course, since there's No Such Thing As Influence™)

I love the more obscure Dutch artists, like this fella Jan Steen, and Jacob Jordaens, who aren't afraid of showing the meanest, crassest and funnest human behaviour:

Couple in a Bedroom, 1670 #baroque #steen https://t.co/8XiYfOCHA5 pic.twitter.com/PyQpvY4i0a

— Jan Steen (@ArtistJanSteen) July 4, 2022

Once I went on a Tinder date with this guy who, once a week, would take a famous painting (e.g. Mona Lisa, Nighthawks) and replicate it but with the people as Minions. He had almost 100 painting but refused to sell them. He said he just wanted “other people to join the movement” pic.twitter.com/ByBq0aZU90

— Calliope 👀 🍿 (@Callies411) July 4, 2022

A Buffoon (incorrectly called Antonio The Englishman), 1640 #diegovelazquez #velázquez https://t.co/BYpSiduirF pic.twitter.com/sRLdilnjJp

— Diego Velázquez (@velazquez_bot) July 8, 2022

That use of white paint on the hat, shoulder and dog is pretty sweet.

Wine and Candies, 2005 #tetyanayablonska #yablonska https://t.co/Td6pEbujFL pic.twitter.com/eHDlnhFaPI

— Tetyana Yablonska (@ArtistYablonska) July 4, 2022

art that looks like shitposting

Hairy Locomotion #remediosvaro #varo https://t.co/lBZd7LQlqx pic.twitter.com/D4NeI94NBz

— Remedios Varo (@artistvaro) July 15, 2022

it manages to be both amusing and frightening.

i knew thomas eakins was great but wow thomas eakins was really great

Thomas Eakins, Whistling for Plover, 1874 #brooklynmuseum #museumarchive https://t.co/ODgUIYdVHG pic.twitter.com/CvqxgDuGQE

— Thomas Eakins (@artisteakins) July 18, 2022

Yeah, he is one of my favorites. I don't know that one! So much sky.

lonely guy, thinking baout Sherwood

The Passing of Robin Hood, 1917 #romanticism #wyeth https://t.co/os7Mq2MheS pic.twitter.com/KsRbcjdkm4

— N.C.Wyeth (@NC_Wyeth) July 18, 2022

"bury me where ere the arrow shd fall!"
*FAINT TWANG*
"bury you in yr own foot then?"

I've just discovered Odilon Redon:

The Cyclops, 1914 #symbolism #odilonredon https://t.co/wPatYd9bp0 pic.twitter.com/BejwBQrGBG

— Odilon Redon (@redonart) July 20, 2022

Gnome, 1879 #redon #symbolism https://t.co/E5fiXO2xVW pic.twitter.com/pG2mpQmERu

— Odilon Redon (@redonart) July 17, 2022

Monet’s house and garden in Giverny, France pic.twitter.com/Owe5CV5nuy

— Academia Aesthetics (@AcademiaAesthe1) July 19, 2022

Monet's bare posh yard and his famous gardens.

Jumble of Skeletons of Newspaper Boys, 1903 #joseguadalupeposada #posada https://t.co/aE4legpZJm pic.twitter.com/1JWXpSkPQP

— José Guadalupe Posada (@ArtistPosada) July 24, 2022

skeleton news for skeleton people

Dissonance, 1910 #franzstuck #symbolism https://t.co/uF3Vt8Heb4 pic.twitter.com/3Xan2MNcuC

— Franz Stuck (@franz_stuck) July 31, 2022

Death Listened to the Nightingale - The Nightingale #edmunddulac #dulac https://t.co/7uHDsq3k1F pic.twitter.com/zNdYm2IVGa

— Edmund Dulac (@Edmund_Dulac) September 5, 2022

excellent bosch owl

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), 1516 #northernrenaissance #hieronymusbosch https://t.co/Vrj4UCwxGd pic.twitter.com/6TRKG5mMVc

— Hieronymus Bosch (@artistbosch) September 24, 2022

lol this is fucked up

Er reveenken hjemme i kveld #theodorseverinkittelsen #kittelsen https://t.co/zs0NnEVLxg pic.twitter.com/vtfcqx5MIo

— Theodor Kittelsen (@ArtistKittelsen) October 15, 2022

it means "Is the fox widow home tonight?"

Good to see that a lot of artbots have migrated to Mastodon. I can still get my John Singer Sargent fix. Still missing the Prado bot, though.

The ones I've found so far are on arthaus.social (but it's down at the moment).

the bang of these LOTR illustrations is p variable tbh but i love some of them

my fantasy nerd/illustrator sister has these russian language editions of LOTR. Here are a few pictures from it:

1. gandalf and the witch-king at the gates of minas tirith
2. bridge of the khazad-dum
3. taming of smeagol
4. witch-king pic.twitter.com/BlZ5utfLS6

— allie (@clayplainforest) March 2, 2023

chase on through to the blog post for more

it seems to switch between the styles of old Japanese ink art and religious (or possibly quite sacrilegious) medieval iconography to a pleasing effect.

yes, plus whatever style this is? (topic = the hobbits trapped in the barrow by the barrow wight)

https://i.imgur.com/OoCPxm0.png

late to this discovery and this isn't the right thread really but the hobbit in russian is…

KHOBBIT

i never imagined the barrow as looking like a public toilet.

it's an inspired reading

#FairyTaleTuesday Harry Clarke’s Looking Glass
As one of the leading figures of the Irish Arts and Crafts movement, Harry Clarke’s images helped shape the Irish Free State’s visual idiom in the 1920s and beyond https://t.co/aaxn5Dh9Dj pic.twitter.com/bp9cOPndu2

— Tatiana Fajardo (@Tatiana19796) March 14, 2023

harry clarke faustus illustration deployed on the fall's bend sinister (for obvious reasons)

https://i.imgur.com/L8aTEeW.png

that fall illo always reminded me of something (but a third thing)

Harry Clarke is great. I believe there was something like 50 newly discovered paintings several years ago and there was gems in there

Why does Bruegel only focus on one painting..

The Fall of the Rebel Angels pic.twitter.com/kqNeb7HA2x

— BruegelBot (@BruegelBot) April 3, 2023

there's a bosch one that does the same. i think they have downloaded the gigpixel scan that's avaiable and just randomly crop a twitter-sized picture from that.

Summer Evening, 1947 https://t.co/Phs8iMwzLh pic.twitter.com/eXqj632ovI

— Edward Hopper (@artisthopper) November 26, 2023

i like this account

https://bsky.app/profile/artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social/post/3kpfgrhy6ci2q

Found a respectable art account.

pic.twitter.com/J0yOMHHQ2X

— Insane Facebook AI slop (@FacebookAIslop) May 28, 2024