An work of art a day keeps the doctor away, so help me find them.

November 18, 2016 8:38 AM

Is there a Twitter feed that posts a variety of works of art regularly? I'm trying to inspire myself to be more artistic, and a part of these efforts is to expose myself to art that I might not see otherwise. I'm on Twitter on and off throughout the day, so I thought that a Twitter feed that posts images of works of art would be helpful. I'm particularly interested in modern art, collages and mixed media. Any thoughts? Thanks!
posted by Fister Roboto to Society & Culture (15 answers total)

Ffffound.com? Slightly NSFW but they have a twitter feed.
posted by parmanparman at 8:43 AM on November 18, 2016

Rabih Alameddine does this. He's posting a lot of poetry right now but usually posts several images a day.
posted by BibiRose at 8:44 AM on November 18, 2016 [1 favorite]

It's not twitter, but Colossal updates pretty regularly (seems like at least once a day) with new stuff.
posted by LionIndex at 8:51 AM on November 18, 2016

archillect is a image bot that crawls the internet and posts "interesting" things. It has a twitter feed.

I also follow FFD8FFDB which claims to take screenshots of internet connected webcams and posts them with some sort of filter.
posted by adventureloop at 8:59 AM on November 18, 2016

@70sscifiart is pretty nifty.
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 9:09 AM on November 18, 2016

Olga Tuleninova posts 1-5 paintings/artworks per day. Most of them are lesser-known works by celebrated painters, or works from less well-known painters, but there are occasionally more contemporary pieces.

Click through the Twitter accounts she occasionally retweets. THere are hundreds, if not thousands, of Twitter feeds like this.
posted by late afternoon dreaming hotel at 9:09 AM on November 18, 2016

I follow Stephen Ellecock on Facebook. He's an extraordinary curator. Perhaps he has a Twitter feed.
posted by effluvia at 9:12 AM on November 18, 2016 [2 favorites]

@ello Also highly recommend subscribing to their newsletter.
posted by DrAstroZoom at 9:37 AM on November 18, 2016

I LOVE @womensart1.

Not quite art art art, but @Eccentric Archive RTs a lot of interesting stuff throughout the day.

@GRAD_London tweets a lot of Russian & Soviet art and is generally enormously interesting.
posted by kariebookish at 9:45 AM on November 18, 2016 [1 favorite]

I'm a fan of the East London Group account. If you follow them they'll eventually send you a picture! Mine was of a lighthouse. They also have a strangely reassuring ritual of posting the same painting every Sunday morning (Sunday Morning, Farringdon Road by Cecil Osborne from 1929).
posted by Lluvia at 10:28 AM on November 18, 2016

You're on Facebook right? Look for the public page of "Stephen Ellcock" and follow that. You won't regret it.
posted by Ted Maul at 10:49 AM on November 18, 2016

@TheGraffHunter - a huge range of street art in L.A. Updated daily.
posted by Room 641-A at 2:12 PM on November 18, 2016

Charley Parker runs the Lines and Colors blog, which I've always quite liked. He notes updates on his Twitter account.
posted by Phobos the Space Potato at 3:25 PM on November 18, 2016

Julian Merrow-Smith's Shiftinglight.com daily paintings and auction is so wonderful to receive every day.
posted by Elsie at 3:58 AM on November 19, 2016

Do you use Chrome? The Google Art Project extension makes each new tab you open display a work of art.
posted by donnagirl at 9:04 AM on November 19, 2016 [1 favorite]