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

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