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

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

maybesomekindof
ppppppimpppppppmobile operation

— BabyAWACS KISS Chris (@dubengeldu) April 14, 2022

thats right

Walter Molino (1915-1997) "il gatto infuriato" pic.twitter.com/DX8CvfiPby

— Ansis Puriņš (@ANSISPURINS) April 19, 2022

lol this guy did panels for LOOK AND LEARN magazine is the 60s and 70s, tho i haven't found one i actually recognise from reading it at the time

they weren't usually quite as striking as this (it was an earnest publication) tho did often featured animals

losing it at this 15th century drawing of a man being poked in the eyeball by a demon, he looks SO unamused pic.twitter.com/vRwBaWkmqo

— weird medieval guys (@WeirdMedieval) April 27, 2022

this amusing details of medieval illustrations account is so good

it is lol

The Flight of the dragonfly in Front of the Sun #miro #abstractexpressionism pic.twitter.com/XbiM5z0xu6

— Joan Miró (@artist_miro) May 1, 2022

tfw everyone involved is a massive goth

The Fall of the House of Usher, 1895 https://t.co/UTLahDeFHZ #artnouveau #aubreybeardsley pic.twitter.com/hFnxsrBxJj

— Aubrey Beardsley (@artistbeardsley) May 8, 2022

was disappointed to hear that bullshit from some US museums over the Guston shows. If you can't see that his work is powered by despair and the recurrent Klan themes in his work are not promoting them, then it shows how ill thought out + insincere the corporate support, performative sensitivity towards black ppl post-BLM is from these institutions. Probably wrong thread!

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