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

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