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

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

"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