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

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

does this count:

My son has just finished a painting that is called, "The Consequences of Showing Watership Down to Your Young Children".

I am both proud and ashamed. pic.twitter.com/ZxfLfHUKL4

— Guy Walters 🇺🇦 (@guywalters) March 16, 2022

bosch bot is all time imo

the wikipedia entry on bosch scholarship talks about how the line used to be that bosch was basically a pervert who trolled everyone. now of course scholars know better and agree that bosch's paintings are in line with religious and social teachings and mores of the time. but frankly i choose to believe the pervert troll theory.

religious and social teachings and mores of the time

created by an entire institution of pervert trolls

exactly

this is what you look like

Caricature, 1500 https://t.co/A0LhfFfOXI #davinci #highrenaissance pic.twitter.com/n7SfbeQ3lp

— Leonardo da Vinci (@ArtistDaVinci) March 21, 2022

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