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

John Ruskin, 1853 #millais #realism https://t.co/E0gzP0Xq6u pic.twitter.com/xnun778R8a

— John Everett Millais (@artistmillais) May 31, 2022

^^^look at this doofus

lol, he does look like a total nobhead in old b+w photos as well

just calmly standing by the stream as I normally do (looking like a prat and thinking deep thoughts)

Lonely guy just thinking baout pubes

that also could apply to Lucian Freud!

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)

It's important (read: impotent) to wear a necktie when contemplating a jolly fast stream.

🕷I own an original model sheet from ‘Cobweb Hotel’🕷
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It’s been my mission to get this one saved from the vault! #Animation #FleischerStudios pic.twitter.com/oaA268MQ0B

— Max Fleischer Cartoons (@fleischertoons) June 10, 2022

ripped flea 🤩

The Ghost of a Flea, 1820 #williamblake #symbolism https://t.co/5ifL4LclBZ pic.twitter.com/Rg0kmnI1hB

— William Blake (@artist_blake) June 20, 2022

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

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.

salvador dali is not my bag generally speaking but a few things that have come across my feed have impressed me.

John Singer Sargent has been my big revelation after subscribing to various drawing/museum bots (also thanks to this thread)

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. She’s 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 she’d already seen the show twice and that it was her favorite show of the year— 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

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

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

Love the musician in the background in ecstasy at this jam.

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.

― 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 Chicago—not because of the work though, it was so incredibly crowded I was on the brink of a claustrophobic meltdown the entire time

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 Séance (@TheSeanceRadio) January 24, 2019

Images don't do it justice, the originals are huge.

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!

^^^ceci n'est pas une post

I am just going to paint a hat made of clouds against a background sky made out of hats and this is my manifesto!

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

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.

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

I was about ready to defend his use of color and realized I was thinking of Matisse.

Matisse was the probably the only post-impressionist I've got a lifelong love for

extra "the" in there because I was going to post Matisse was the fucking Don!

lmao

Lmfao do you like anything, Calzino?

Magritte is great, Dali has some baller paintings, too.

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™)