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
― rob, Thursday, 30 June 2022 14:49 (one year ago) link
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.
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Thursday, 30 June 2022 15:20 (one year ago) link
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
― calzino, Thursday, 30 June 2022 15:33 (one year ago) link
I was about ready to defend his use of color and realized I was thinking of Matisse.
― Am I doomposting? I would say you’re not doomposting enough. (PBKR), Thursday, 30 June 2022 16:00 (one year ago) link
Matisse was the probably the only post-impressionist I've got a lifelong love for
― calzino, Thursday, 30 June 2022 16:09 (one year ago) link
extra "the" in there because I was going to post Matisse was the fucking Don!
― calzino, Thursday, 30 June 2022 16:11 (one year ago) link
lmao
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 30 June 2022 16:34 (one year ago) link
Lmfao do you like anything, Calzino?Magritte is great, Dali has some baller paintings, too.
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Thursday, 30 June 2022 21:00 (one year ago) link
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!
― calzino, Thursday, 30 June 2022 21:36 (one year ago) link
Fucking love Klee and Cezanne. Bought a gorgeous Klee book last month. Agree that Magritte is terrible!
― Osama bin Chinese (gyac), Thursday, 30 June 2022 21:43 (one year ago) link
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!
― calzino, Thursday, 30 June 2022 21:50 (one year ago) link
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.
― calzino, Thursday, 30 June 2022 22:05 (one year ago) link
yes I'm talking about him in the present tense, because someone told that is what real art critics do!
― calzino, Thursday, 30 June 2022 22:08 (one year ago) link
does anyone want to go in on picasso?? overrated in my very uninformed opinion.
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Thursday, 30 June 2022 22:15 (one year ago) link
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!
― calzino, Thursday, 30 June 2022 22:21 (one year ago) link
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
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Thursday, 30 June 2022 22:35 (one year ago) link
sorry I don't mean to be a buzzkill here and am probably wittering on too much
― calzino, Thursday, 30 June 2022 22:49 (one year ago) link
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.
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Thursday, 30 June 2022 23:42 (one year ago) link
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.
― calzino, Thursday, 30 June 2022 23:50 (one year ago) link
max ernst is da bomb
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Friday, 1 July 2022 02:12 (one year ago) link
the max ernst twitter account has been showing us bookplates lately
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FVE9puIWYAYq6W1?format=jpg&name=large
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Friday, 1 July 2022 02:13 (one year ago) link
hell yeah
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Friday, 1 July 2022 02:41 (one year ago) link
― calzino, Thursday, June 30, 2022 6:08 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
They mostly dish out art-world gossip these days afaict.
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Friday, 1 July 2022 02:48 (one year ago) link
Saw the Dix show at the Neue Galerie maybe ten years ago. Didn't know anything about him and came away totally stunned.
― Am I doomposting? I would say you’re not doomposting enough. (PBKR), Friday, 1 July 2022 12:13 (one year ago) link
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
― rob, Friday, 1 July 2022 14:57 (one year ago) link
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™)
― mark s, Saturday, 2 July 2022 08:40 (one year ago) link
I love the more obscure Dutch artists, like this fella Jan Steen, and Jacob Jordaens, who aren't afraid of showing the meanest, crassest and funnest human behaviour:
Couple in a Bedroom, 1670 #baroque #steen https://t.co/8XiYfOCHA5 pic.twitter.com/PyQpvY4i0a— Jan Steen (@ArtistJanSteen) July 4, 2022
― glumdalclitch, Monday, 4 July 2022 15:02 (one year ago) link
Once I went on a Tinder date with this guy who, once a week, would take a famous painting (e.g. Mona Lisa, Nighthawks) and replicate it but with the people as Minions. He had almost 100 painting but refused to sell them. He said he just wanted “other people to join the movement” pic.twitter.com/ByBq0aZU90— Calliope 👀 🍿 (@Callies411) July 4, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 4 July 2022 17:54 (one year ago) link
A Buffoon (incorrectly called Antonio The Englishman), 1640 #diegovelazquez #velázquez https://t.co/BYpSiduirF pic.twitter.com/sRLdilnjJp— Diego Velázquez (@velazquez_bot) July 8, 2022
― mark s, Friday, 8 July 2022 15:19 (one year ago) link
That use of white paint on the hat, shoulder and dog is pretty sweet.
― Am I doomposting? I would say you’re not doomposting enough. (PBKR), Friday, 8 July 2022 16:33 (one year ago) link
Wine and Candies, 2005 #tetyanayablonska #yablonska https://t.co/Td6pEbujFL pic.twitter.com/eHDlnhFaPI— Tetyana Yablonska (@ArtistYablonska) July 4, 2022
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Friday, 8 July 2022 16:43 (one year ago) link
art that looks like shitposting
Hairy Locomotion #remediosvaro #varo https://t.co/lBZd7LQlqx pic.twitter.com/D4NeI94NBz— Remedios Varo (@artistvaro) July 15, 2022
― mark s, Monday, 18 July 2022 09:06 (one year ago) link
it manages to be both amusing and frightening.
― calzino, Monday, 18 July 2022 10:13 (one year ago) link
i knew thomas eakins was great but wow thomas eakins was really great
Thomas Eakins, Whistling for Plover, 1874 #brooklynmuseum #museumarchive https://t.co/ODgUIYdVHG pic.twitter.com/CvqxgDuGQE— Thomas Eakins (@artisteakins) July 18, 2022
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Monday, 18 July 2022 17:36 (one year ago) link
Yeah, he is one of my favorites. I don't know that one! So much sky.
― doomposting is the new composting (PBKR), Monday, 18 July 2022 18:04 (one year ago) link
lonely guy, thinking baout Sherwood
The Passing of Robin Hood, 1917 #romanticism #wyeth https://t.co/os7Mq2MheS pic.twitter.com/KsRbcjdkm4— N.C.Wyeth (@NC_Wyeth) July 18, 2022
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Wednesday, 20 July 2022 12:46 (one year ago) link
"bury me where ere the arrow shd fall!" *FAINT TWANG* "bury you in yr own foot then?"
― mark s, Wednesday, 20 July 2022 13:21 (one year ago) link
I've just discovered Odilon Redon:
The Cyclops, 1914 #symbolism #odilonredon https://t.co/wPatYd9bp0 pic.twitter.com/BejwBQrGBG— Odilon Redon (@redonart) July 20, 2022
Gnome, 1879 #redon #symbolism https://t.co/E5fiXO2xVW pic.twitter.com/pG2mpQmERu— Odilon Redon (@redonart) July 17, 2022
― dear confusion the catastrophe waitress (ledge), Wednesday, 20 July 2022 13:37 (one year ago) link
Monet’s house and garden in Giverny, France pic.twitter.com/Owe5CV5nuy— Academia Aesthetics (@AcademiaAesthe1) July 19, 2022
Monet's bare posh yard and his famous gardens.
― calzino, Wednesday, 20 July 2022 14:02 (one year ago) link
Jumble of Skeletons of Newspaper Boys, 1903 #joseguadalupeposada #posada https://t.co/aE4legpZJm pic.twitter.com/1JWXpSkPQP— José Guadalupe Posada (@ArtistPosada) July 24, 2022
― mark s, Thursday, 28 July 2022 12:59 (one year ago) link
skeleton news for skeleton people
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Friday, 29 July 2022 19:57 (one year ago) link
Dissonance, 1910 #franzstuck #symbolism https://t.co/uF3Vt8Heb4 pic.twitter.com/3Xan2MNcuC— Franz Stuck (@franz_stuck) July 31, 2022
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Thursday, 4 August 2022 20:50 (one year 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