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
― rob, Sunday, 6 March 2022 17:03 (two years ago) link
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
― mark s, Sunday, 6 March 2022 17:19 (two years ago) link
Remedios Varo is one of my all-timers, top5 probably
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 6 March 2022 19:50 (two years ago) link
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!
― calzino, Sunday, 6 March 2022 21:06 (two years ago) link
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.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 6 March 2022 22:23 (two years ago) link
Actually he wasn't a prime ministerhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sof%C3%ADa_Bassi
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 6 March 2022 22:29 (two years ago) link
oh boy I love Varos
Abut https://t.co/JrwETC5cwr #varo #surrealism pic.twitter.com/Bn5fublncR— Remedios Varo (@artistvaro) March 14, 2022
― rob, Monday, 14 March 2022 15:13 (two years ago) link
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.
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Monday, 14 March 2022 15:36 (two years ago) link
i.e. that landscape is so pretty and look at that cozy cottage omg
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Monday, 14 March 2022 15:38 (two years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Monday, 14 March 2022 15:56 (two years ago) link
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)
― rob, Monday, 14 March 2022 17:49 (two years ago) link
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
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 02:20 (two years ago) link
relatable
Illustration to "A Week of Kindness", 1934 #ernst #maxernst pic.twitter.com/eOw7t3o9z1— Max Ernst (@artisternst) March 15, 2022
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 14:35 (two years ago) link
i take it back re tintoretto this is hot
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FN6MdrDXwAUikvZ?format=jpg&name=large
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 18:04 (two years ago) link
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.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 18:22 (two years ago) link
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
― emil.y, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 18:27 (two years ago) link
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
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 18:29 (two years ago) link
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
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 22:42 (two years ago) link
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
― mark s, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 23:16 (two years ago) link
Thank you for being nice to me
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 09:59 (two years ago) link
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
― mark s, Thursday, 17 March 2022 20:44 (two years ago) link
grebt polish feet pix
Death of Ellenai #polishart #jacekmalczewski pic.twitter.com/8pfUOtKpki— Jacek Malczewski (@art_malczewski) March 17, 2022
― mark s, Thursday, 17 March 2022 20:46 (two years ago) link
oh no
Locked in Ice, 1882 #romanticism #bradford pic.twitter.com/Gufo88U1Zp— William Bradford (@ArtistWBradford) March 16, 2022
― mark s, Friday, 18 March 2022 15:09 (two years ago) link
these lads loved the franklin expedition
― mark s, Friday, 18 March 2022 15:12 (two years ago) link
Little Girl With Cat, 1889 https://t.co/FcuU5fES0t #theophilesteinlen #steinlen pic.twitter.com/pbgIqFFQp8— Theophile Steinlen (@artist_steinlen) February 19, 2022
― mark s, Friday, 18 March 2022 15:16 (two years ago) link
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".
― calzino, Friday, 18 March 2022 15:30 (two years ago) link
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
― rob, Friday, 18 March 2022 15:40 (two years ago) link
funnel-hat rabbit be like —<|:O
― mark s, Friday, 18 March 2022 15:44 (two years ago) link
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
― ledge, Friday, 18 March 2022 15:56 (two years ago) link
bosch bot is all time imo
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Friday, 18 March 2022 15:57 (two years ago) link
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.
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Friday, 18 March 2022 15:59 (two years ago) link
religious and social teachings and mores of the time
created by an entire institution of pervert trolls
― ledge, Friday, 18 March 2022 16:03 (two years ago) link
exactly
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Friday, 18 March 2022 17:26 (two years ago) link
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
― mark s, Monday, 21 March 2022 20:58 (two years ago) link
Painting of Pikachu by Caravaggio pic.twitter.com/aIRFI7uRkv— James Kelleher (@etienneshrdlu) March 26, 2022
― mark s, Saturday, 26 March 2022 17:09 (two years ago) link
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
― ledge, Tuesday, 5 April 2022 09:21 (two years ago) link
Timocleia OTM
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Tuesday, 5 April 2022 09:30 (two years ago) link
‘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
― mark s, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 17:10 (two years ago) link
the soldIer fills his knapsack with MONEY
― mark s, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 17:11 (two years ago) link
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
― mark s, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 17:17 (two years ago) link
> 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.
― koogs, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 17:46 (two years ago) link
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30580/30580-h/30580-h.htm
― koogs, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 17:48 (two years ago) link
yup there's 12, green first, lilac last
― mark s, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 17:54 (two years ago) link
Is it just coz I’m on a phone that pictures don’t load on ILX anymore?
― jel--, Thursday, 7 April 2022 12:18 (two years ago) link
pictures from twitter take a long time if there's a lot of them
― mark s, Thursday, 7 April 2022 12:30 (two years ago) link
there's also a 'don't load any pictures' preference that you might've set and forgotten. (also, west london represent!)
― koogs, Thursday, 7 April 2022 12:36 (two years ago) link
Thank you sir! West London forever!
― jel--, Thursday, 7 April 2022 14:02 (two years ago) link
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
― mark s, Sunday, 10 April 2022 16:58 (two years ago) link