lol, he does look like a total nobhead in old b+w photos as well
― calzino, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 20:09 (two years ago) link
just calmly standing by the stream as I normally do (looking like a prat and thinking deep thoughts)
― calzino, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 20:13 (two years ago) link
Lonely guy just thinking baout pubes
― rob, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 20:16 (two years ago) link
that also could apply to Lucian Freud!
― calzino, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 20:27 (two years ago) link
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)
― mark s, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 20:34 (two years ago) link
It's important (read: impotent) to wear a necktie when contemplating a jolly fast stream.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 20:45 (two years ago) link
đˇI own an original model sheet from âCobweb Hotelâđˇ.Itâs been my mission to get this one saved from the vault! #Animation #FleischerStudios pic.twitter.com/oaA268MQ0B— Max Fleischer Cartoons (@fleischertoons) June 10, 2022
― mark s, Friday, 10 June 2022 16:24 (one year ago) link
ripped flea đ¤Š
The Ghost of a Flea, 1820 #williamblake #symbolism https://t.co/5ifL4LclBZ pic.twitter.com/Rg0kmnI1hB— William Blake (@artist_blake) June 20, 2022
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Tuesday, 21 June 2022 01:38 (one year ago) link
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
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Monday, 27 June 2022 18:25 (one year ago) link
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), Wednesday, 29 June 2022 00:46 (one year ago) link
salvador dali is not my bag generally speaking but a few things that have come across my feed have impressed me.
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Wednesday, 29 June 2022 00:48 (one year ago) link
John Singer Sargent has been my big revelation after subscribing to various drawing/museum bots (also thanks to this thread)
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Wednesday, 29 June 2022 02:06 (one year ago) link
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. Sheâs 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 sheâd already seen the show twice and that it was her favorite show of the yearâ 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
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Wednesday, 29 June 2022 02:19 (one year ago) link
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
― mark s, Wednesday, 29 June 2022 17:33 (one year ago) link
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
― Am I doomposting? I would say youâre not doomposting enough. (PBKR), Wednesday, 29 June 2022 19:07 (one year ago) link
Love the musician in the background in ecstasy at this jam.
― Am I doomposting? I would say youâre not doomposting enough. (PBKR), Wednesday, 29 June 2022 19:08 (one year ago) link
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.â the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Tuesday, June 28, 2022 8:46 PM (two days ago)
â 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 Chicagoânot because of the work though, it was so incredibly crowded I was on the brink of a claustrophobic meltdown the entire time
― rob, Thursday, 30 June 2022 13:47 (one year ago) link
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 SĂŠance (@TheSeanceRadio) January 24, 2019
― Am I doomposting? I would say youâre not doomposting enough. (PBKR), Thursday, 30 June 2022 14:12 (one year ago) link
Images don't do it justice, the originals are huge.
― Am I doomposting? I would say youâre not doomposting enough. (PBKR), Thursday, 30 June 2022 14:13 (one year ago) link
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!
― calzino, Thursday, 30 June 2022 14:18 (one year ago) link
^^^ceci n'est pas une post
― mark s, Thursday, 30 June 2022 14:21 (one year ago) link
I am just going to paint a hat made of clouds against a background sky made out of hats and this is my manifesto!
― calzino, Thursday, 30 June 2022 14:35 (one year ago) link
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
― rob, Thursday, 30 June 2022 14:49 (one year ago) link
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.
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Thursday, 30 June 2022 15:20 (one year ago) link
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
― calzino, Thursday, 30 June 2022 15:33 (one year ago) link
I was about ready to defend his use of color and realized I was thinking of Matisse.
― Am I doomposting? I would say youâre not doomposting enough. (PBKR), Thursday, 30 June 2022 16:00 (one year ago) link
Matisse was the probably the only post-impressionist I've got a lifelong love for
― calzino, Thursday, 30 June 2022 16:09 (one year ago) link
extra "the" in there because I was going to post Matisse was the fucking Don!
― calzino, Thursday, 30 June 2022 16:11 (one year ago) link
lmao
― đ đđ˘đ¨ (caek), Thursday, 30 June 2022 16:34 (one year ago) link
Lmfao do you like anything, Calzino?Magritte is great, Dali has some baller paintings, too.
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Thursday, 30 June 2022 21:00 (one year ago) link
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!
― calzino, Thursday, 30 June 2022 21:36 (one year ago) link
Fucking love Klee and Cezanne. Bought a gorgeous Klee book last month. Agree that Magritte is terrible!
― Osama bin Chinese (gyac), Thursday, 30 June 2022 21:43 (one year ago) link
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!
― calzino, Thursday, 30 June 2022 21:50 (one year ago) link
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.
― calzino, Thursday, 30 June 2022 22:05 (one year ago) link
yes I'm talking about him in the present tense, because someone told that is what real art critics do!
― calzino, Thursday, 30 June 2022 22:08 (one year ago) link
does anyone want to go in on picasso?? overrated in my very uninformed opinion.
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Thursday, 30 June 2022 22:15 (one year ago) link
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!
― calzino, Thursday, 30 June 2022 22:21 (one year ago) link
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. havenât thought about him or his work in years fwiw
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Thursday, 30 June 2022 22:35 (one year ago) link
sorry I don't mean to be a buzzkill here and am probably wittering on too much
― calzino, Thursday, 30 June 2022 22:49 (one year ago) link
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 libraryâs annual sale. Speaking of surrealism.
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Thursday, 30 June 2022 23:42 (one year ago) link
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.
― calzino, Thursday, 30 June 2022 23:50 (one year ago) link
max ernst is da bomb
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Friday, 1 July 2022 02:12 (one year ago) link
the max ernst twitter account has been showing us bookplates lately
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FVE9puIWYAYq6W1?format=jpg&name=large
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Friday, 1 July 2022 02:13 (one year ago) link
hell yeah
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Friday, 1 July 2022 02:41 (one year ago) link
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They mostly dish out art-world gossip these days afaict.
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Friday, 1 July 2022 02:48 (one year ago) link
Saw the Dix show at the Neue Galerie maybe ten years ago. Didn't know anything about him and came away totally stunned.
― Am I doomposting? I would say youâre not doomposting enough. (PBKR), Friday, 1 July 2022 12:13 (one year ago) link
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
― rob, Friday, 1 July 2022 14:57 (one year ago) link
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 Influenceâ˘)
― mark s, Saturday, 2 July 2022 08:40 (one year ago) link
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
― glumdalclitch, Monday, 4 July 2022 15:02 (one year ago) link
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 âother people to join the movementâ pic.twitter.com/ByBq0aZU90— Calliope đ đż (@Callies411) July 4, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 4 July 2022 17:54 (one year ago) link