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

hell yeah

yes I'm talking about him in the present tense, because someone told that is what real art critics do!

― calzino, Thursday, June 30, 2022 6:08 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

They mostly dish out art-world gossip these days afaict.

Saw the Dix show at the Neue Galerie maybe ten years ago. Didn't know anything about him and came away totally stunned.

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

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™)

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

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

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

That use of white paint on the hat, shoulder and dog is pretty sweet.

Wine and Candies, 2005 #tetyanayablonska #yablonska https://t.co/Td6pEbujFL pic.twitter.com/eHDlnhFaPI

— Tetyana Yablonska (@ArtistYablonska) July 4, 2022

art that looks like shitposting

Hairy Locomotion #remediosvaro #varo https://t.co/lBZd7LQlqx pic.twitter.com/D4NeI94NBz

— Remedios Varo (@artistvaro) July 15, 2022

it manages to be both amusing and frightening.

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

Yeah, he is one of my favorites. I don't know that one! So much sky.

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

"bury me where ere the arrow shd fall!"
*FAINT TWANG*
"bury you in yr own foot then?"

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

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.

Jumble of Skeletons of Newspaper Boys, 1903 #joseguadalupeposada #posada https://t.co/aE4legpZJm pic.twitter.com/1JWXpSkPQP

— José Guadalupe Posada (@ArtistPosada) July 24, 2022

skeleton news for skeleton people

Dissonance, 1910 #franzstuck #symbolism https://t.co/uF3Vt8Heb4 pic.twitter.com/3Xan2MNcuC

— Franz Stuck (@franz_stuck) July 31, 2022

Death Listened to the Nightingale - The Nightingale #edmunddulac #dulac https://t.co/7uHDsq3k1F pic.twitter.com/zNdYm2IVGa

— Edmund Dulac (@Edmund_Dulac) September 5, 2022

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

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

it means "Is the fox widow home tonight?"

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).

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-dum
3. taming of smeagol
4. witch-king pic.twitter.com/BlZ5utfLS6

— allie (@clayplainforest) March 2, 2023

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.

yes, plus whatever style this is? (topic = the hobbits trapped in the barrow by the barrow wight)

https://i.imgur.com/OoCPxm0.png

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