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

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

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

Painter in Bed, 1973 https://t.co/9LmhSCBruP #philipguston #neoexpressionism pic.twitter.com/80U91Ci0Pw

— Philip Guston (@PhilipGustonArt) February 26, 2022

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

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

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

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.

Recreating Hieronymus Bosch pic.twitter.com/FtkuWJ5TlU

— Adrian Black (@MsAdrianBlack) March 5, 2022

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

ooooh, I like that one a lot.

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

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

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

Remedios Varo is one of my all-timers, top5 probably

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!

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.

Actually he wasn't a prime minister
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sof%C3%ADa_Bassi

oh boy I love Varos

Abut https://t.co/JrwETC5cwr #varo #surrealism pic.twitter.com/Bn5fublncR

— Remedios Varo (@artistvaro) March 14, 2022

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.

i.e. that landscape is so pretty and look at that cozy cottage omg

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.

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)

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

relatable

Illustration to "A Week of Kindness", 1934 #ernst #maxernst pic.twitter.com/eOw7t3o9z1

— Max Ernst (@artisternst) March 15, 2022

i take it back re tintoretto this is hot

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FN6MdrDXwAUikvZ?format=jpg&name=large

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FN6MdrDXwAUikvZ?format=jpg&name=large

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.

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

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

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

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

Thank you for being nice to me

this guy's great (the peeking fellow with the beard and mustache is a portrait of the artist, and his self-portraits are worth looking out for)

intermezzo #polishart #malczewski pic.twitter.com/wgjfwG5AIw

— Jacek Malczewski (@art_malczewski) March 13, 2022

grebt polish feet pix

Death of Ellenai #polishart #jacekmalczewski pic.twitter.com/8pfUOtKpki

— Jacek Malczewski (@art_malczewski) March 17, 2022

oh no

Locked in Ice, 1882 #romanticism #bradford pic.twitter.com/Gufo88U1Zp

— William Bradford (@ArtistWBradford) March 16, 2022

these lads loved the franklin expedition

relatable

Little Girl With Cat, 1889 https://t.co/FcuU5fES0t #theophilesteinlen #steinlen pic.twitter.com/pbgIqFFQp8

— Theophile Steinlen (@artist_steinlen) February 19, 2022

TÊTE DE CLOWN, 9×11in, Sold for $20,000 USD #georgesrouault https://t.co/s3LIVSb1dq pic.twitter.com/flroz8A7SU

— Georges Rouault (@rouaultgeorges) July 19, 2016

you can pick up a Georges Rouault painting for the price of half a Tesla these days. I know which I'd prefer (the Tesla obv lol). No I like his stuff that is obv influenced by his early career in stained glass windows. I recall a quote in a book I was browsing in the college library 30 years ago where he says something like he's not interested in being a famous artist and quite content to plug away at his thing in "sweet obscurity".

might be too basic for you all, but the Bosch bot that posts details is fun and the most bot-y of the bots I follow (in that sometimes the details are not interesting at all):

pic.twitter.com/DBqltLOOye

— BoschBot (@boschbot) March 18, 2022

funnel-hat rabbit be like —<|:O

the breughel bot is also good IF YOU LOVE TWIGS AGAINST THE BLEAK GREY SKY

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

Why does Bruegel only focus on one painting..

The Fall of the Rebel Angels pic.twitter.com/kqNeb7HA2x

— BruegelBot (@BruegelBot) April 3, 2023

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.

Summer Evening, 1947 https://t.co/Phs8iMwzLh pic.twitter.com/eXqj632ovI

— Edward Hopper (@artisthopper) November 26, 2023

i like this account

https://bsky.app/profile/artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social/post/3kpfgrhy6ci2q