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
― mark s, Sunday, 6 February 2022 22:38 (two years ago) link
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
― calzino, Monday, 7 February 2022 10:14 (two years ago) link
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
― dogs, Monday, 7 February 2022 11:01 (two years ago) link
Portrait of Uncle Dominique as a Monk, 1866 #paulcezanne #cezanne pic.twitter.com/k6ZMZsHcvq— Paul Cezanne (@cezanneart) February 7, 2022
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Monday, 7 February 2022 11:38 (two years ago) link
he had a very sludgy impasto style in his early works, but he got better as he got older - an inspiration to us all!
― calzino, Monday, 7 February 2022 11:41 (two years ago) link
I love Cezanne's use of colour, the most vivid of the (post)impressionists for me
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Monday, 7 February 2022 11:44 (two years ago) link
Manet up there as well
The Departure Of The Folkestone Boat, 1869 #edouardmanet #manet pic.twitter.com/Kg0RH26TDp— Edouard Manet (@artistmanet) February 7, 2022
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Monday, 7 February 2022 11:49 (two years ago) link
love the sculptural qualities of Cezanne's mont st victoire studies which frequently pop up in my feed.
― calzino, Monday, 7 February 2022 11:51 (two years ago) link
I went to L'Estaque near Marseille a while back, another place that Cezanne obsessively studied, and you could understand why
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Monday, 7 February 2022 11:58 (two years ago) link
i like all the qworks that are vmnic tbh
― mark s, Monday, 7 February 2022 12:02 (two years ago) link
i call them qworks
― mark s, Monday, 7 February 2022 13:53 (two years ago) link
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 fellerhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Vereshchagin
― glumdalclitch, Monday, 7 February 2022 14:12 (two years ago) link
A Shy Peasant, 1877 #realism #repin pic.twitter.com/jUoMAdg5Kg— Ilya Repin (@artistilyarepin) February 7, 2022
― calzino, Monday, 7 February 2022 14:16 (two years ago) link
oh no:
Innfoedte Av Majoristammen, 1894 #theodorseverinkittelsen #kittelsen pic.twitter.com/SyAu5Dw4yV— Theodor Kittelsen (@ArtistKittelsen) February 1, 2022
― mark s, Monday, 7 February 2022 20:38 (two years ago) link
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
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Monday, 7 February 2022 20:43 (two years ago) link
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
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Monday, 7 February 2022 20:45 (two years ago) link
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
― 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.
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Monday, 7 February 2022 20:47 (two years ago) link
uh oh
The Inferno, Canto 19 #gustavedore #dore pic.twitter.com/yzQUGgO3WX— Gustave Doré (@artistdore) January 25, 2022
― mark s, Monday, 7 February 2022 20:53 (two years ago) link
Dante is saying "sucks to be you" iirc
― Reader, I buried him (Noodle Vague), Monday, 7 February 2022 20:54 (two years ago) link
the edwardian imaginary:
Dreamer of Dreams by the Queen of Romania #artnouveau #edmunddulac pic.twitter.com/RoU4UyRJtN— Edmund Dulac (@Edmund_Dulac) February 12, 2022
― mark s, Sunday, 13 February 2022 23:38 (two years ago) link
Arthur Rackham, Snowdrop and Other Tales by the Brothers Grimm, 1920 https://t.co/zgVwvgcE9S #minneapolisinstituteofart #arthurrackham pic.twitter.com/2AKFkQ9AOU— Arthur Rackham (@ArthurRackham) February 10, 2022
― mark s, Monday, 14 February 2022 21:32 (two years ago) link
Painter in Bed, 1973 https://t.co/9LmhSCBruP #philipguston #neoexpressionism pic.twitter.com/80U91Ci0Pw— Philip Guston (@PhilipGustonArt) February 26, 2022
― mark s, Saturday, 26 February 2022 21:44 (two years ago) link
a thing i guess i'd like to write up one day is how much some modern art reminds me of illustrated children's books from when i was very small
The Poetess, 1940 #surrealism #joanmiro pic.twitter.com/DXVIDc6wG6— Joan Miró (@artist_miro) February 21, 2022
― mark s, Sunday, 27 February 2022 18:27 (two years ago) link
arnolfini and his heckin smol pupperino
Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami (The Arnolfini Marriage) (detail), 1434 #janvaneyck #northernrenaissance pic.twitter.com/KEH35piLIg— Jan van Eyck (@artistvaneyck) February 28, 2022
― mark s, Saturday, 5 March 2022 15:27 (two years ago) link
I did a Twitter thread about this several years ago (I've deleted my socials since). It showed "post-painterly" abstractions by Helen Frankenthaler which are strikingly visually similar to Leo Lionni's illustrations for 'Little Blue and Yellow'.
https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/art-talk/helen-frankenthaler/Parade-RobMcKeever.jpg/@@images/5a742276-18c5-45da-9ef1-4d0924ff1397.jpeg
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b7/e8/3c/b7e83c93f7fe8c9677267a8fde236cd2.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDoPRD4QnEk
What impressed me was that taken on their own, Lionni's illustrations are fully abstract; a biomorphic reading is drawn from the text. IIRC 'Little Blue and Yellow' actually predates the Frankenthalers by several years. Kids' books were avant garde af.
Anyway, he doesn't have a Twitter afaik, but follow Stephen Ellcock if you're on facebook.
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Saturday, 5 March 2022 21:31 (two years ago) link
Recreating Hieronymus Bosch pic.twitter.com/FtkuWJ5TlU— Adrian Black (@MsAdrianBlack) March 5, 2022
― mark s, Saturday, 5 March 2022 22:15 (two years ago) link
mark, this thread has massively improved my timeline, thanking u
Courteous Passivity, 1935 #romanianart #surrealism pic.twitter.com/ldVCmE0AcG— Victor Brauner (@artistbrauner) March 6, 2022
― rob, Sunday, 6 March 2022 16:42 (two years ago) link
ooooh, I like that one a lot.
― the world's undisputed #1 fan of 'Spud Infinity' (Karl Malone), Sunday, 6 March 2022 16:42 (two years ago) link
and yes, I've been enjoying this thread as well. I don't like to have too many bots/non-people on my feed, but i did add cy twombly and egon schiele and a couple other megafaves
― the world's undisputed #1 fan of 'Spud Infinity' (Karl Malone), Sunday, 6 March 2022 16:43 (two years ago) link
I'm realizing there are lots of surrealists I like and have never heard of
My friend Agustin Lazo, 1945 #varo #remediosvaro pic.twitter.com/eP8NdzbJsw— Remedios Varo (@artistvaro) February 27, 2022
― rob, Sunday, 6 March 2022 17:03 (two years ago) link
yes it seems to get off-canon pretty quickly, which is an aspect of it that i really like -- just scads of material and of artists that you don't ordinarily see much of
also to deflatormouse: the "little blue little yellow" book looks great and is exactly the jind of thing i had in mind
― mark s, Sunday, 6 March 2022 17:19 (two years ago) link
Remedios Varo is one of my all-timers, top5 probably
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 6 March 2022 19:50 (two years ago) link
It's hard not to notice these more obscure surrealists that keep popping up are much better artists than some of the obvious brand name celeb ones like Dali and Magritte. I get quite annoyed when my other art accounts RT anything by those two pretenders!
― calzino, Sunday, 6 March 2022 21:06 (two years ago) link
I think Varo, Carrington, Fini and others were actually huge in mexico, south america but they're only getting their due in the rest of the world recently. There's one whose name I keep forgetting who was married to a prime minister, shot him and turned herself in immediately, can never remember her name but she doesn't have a huge amount online.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 6 March 2022 22:23 (two years ago) link
Actually he wasn't a prime ministerhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sof%C3%ADa_Bassi
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 6 March 2022 22:29 (two years ago) link
oh boy I love Varos
Abut https://t.co/JrwETC5cwr #varo #surrealism pic.twitter.com/Bn5fublncR— Remedios Varo (@artistvaro) March 14, 2022
― rob, Monday, 14 March 2022 15:13 (two years ago) link
i followed a tintoretto account because of the new destroyer song, and now i learn that, in the song, it's his term for his pretentious younger self lol. can't say i've been impressed with what i see from the tintoretto account but then i'm a bit bewildered by renaissance era painting generally.
varo, i'm not sure about tbh, feel like it might take seeing some of these canvases in person since there are inlays and such?
the accounts i'm most taken with are like post-impressionist realists (i keep seeing ivan shishkin paintings i really like), making me think that maybe my tastes are more basic and aligned with thomas kinkade ism than i might care to admit.
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Monday, 14 March 2022 15:36 (two years ago) link
i.e. that landscape is so pretty and look at that cozy cottage omg
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Monday, 14 March 2022 15:38 (two years ago) link
Mother and Eva, 1935 #verism #dix pic.twitter.com/jAC4RjiwWu— Otto Dix (@artistottodix) March 14, 2022
I like Otto Dix a lot, not just the savage war stuff. Like here where he mixes a bit of real German gothic with some overdone Renoir style twee.
― calzino, Monday, 14 March 2022 15:56 (two years ago) link
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)
― rob, Monday, 14 March 2022 17:49 (two years ago) link
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
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 02:20 (two years ago) link
relatable
Illustration to "A Week of Kindness", 1934 #ernst #maxernst pic.twitter.com/eOw7t3o9z1— Max Ernst (@artisternst) March 15, 2022
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 14:35 (two years ago) link
i take it back re tintoretto this is hot
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FN6MdrDXwAUikvZ?format=jpg&name=large
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 18:04 (two years ago) link
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.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 18:22 (two years ago) link
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
― emil.y, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 18:27 (two years ago) link
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
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 18:29 (two years ago) link
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
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 22:42 (two years ago) link
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
― mark s, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 23:16 (two years ago) link
Thank you for being nice to me
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 09:59 (two years ago) link
Death Listened to the Nightingale - The Nightingale #edmunddulac #dulac https://t.co/7uHDsq3k1F pic.twitter.com/zNdYm2IVGa— Edmund Dulac (@Edmund_Dulac) September 5, 2022
― mark s, Friday, 9 September 2022 15:52 (one year ago) link
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
― mark s, Saturday, 24 September 2022 12:31 (one year ago) link
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
― mark s, Saturday, 15 October 2022 20:54 (one year ago) link
it means "Is the fox widow home tonight?"
― mark s, Saturday, 15 October 2022 20:56 (one year ago) link
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).
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Saturday, 31 December 2022 18:04 (one year ago) link
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-dum3. taming of smeagol 4. witch-king pic.twitter.com/BlZ5utfLS6— allie (@clayplainforest) March 2, 2023
― mark s, Saturday, 4 March 2023 10:46 (one year ago) link
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.
― calzino, Saturday, 4 March 2023 11:37 (one year ago) link
yes, plus whatever style this is? (topic = the hobbits trapped in the barrow by the barrow wight)
https://i.imgur.com/OoCPxm0.png
― mark s, Saturday, 4 March 2023 11:45 (one year ago) link
late to this discovery and this isn't the right thread really but the hobbit in russian is…
KHOBBIT
― mark s, Saturday, 4 March 2023 11:50 (one year ago) link
i never imagined the barrow as looking like a public toilet.
― ledge, Saturday, 4 March 2023 16:08 (one year ago) link
it's an inspired reading
― mark s, Saturday, 4 March 2023 16:22 (one year ago) link
#FairyTaleTuesday Harry Clarke’s Looking GlassAs 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
― koogs, Tuesday, 14 March 2023 17:07 (one year ago) link
harry clarke faustus illustration deployed on the fall's bend sinister (for obvious reasons)
https://i.imgur.com/L8aTEeW.png
― mark s, Tuesday, 14 March 2023 17:20 (one year ago) link
that fall illo always reminded me of something (but a third thing)
― koogs, Tuesday, 14 March 2023 17:23 (one year ago) link
Harry Clarke is great. I believe there was something like 50 newly discovered paintings several years ago and there was gems in there
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 18 March 2023 20:43 (one year ago) link
Why does Bruegel only focus on one painting..
The Fall of the Rebel Angels pic.twitter.com/kqNeb7HA2x— BruegelBot (@BruegelBot) April 3, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 3 April 2023 10:56 (one year ago) link
there's a bosch one that does the same. i think they have downloaded the gigpixel scan that's avaiable and just randomly crop a twitter-sized picture from that.
― koogs, Monday, 3 April 2023 11:22 (one year ago) link
Summer Evening, 1947 https://t.co/Phs8iMwzLh pic.twitter.com/eXqj632ovI— Edward Hopper (@artisthopper) November 26, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 26 November 2023 13:52 (four months ago) link
i like this account
https://bsky.app/profile/artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social/post/3kpfgrhy6ci2q
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 5 April 2024 15:45 (two weeks ago) link