If you’re a lover of all kinds of visual art, looking for visual inspiration, or you’re just bored of the redundancy of constant selfies and food shots, we recommend updating your following list with visual artists. Don’t know who to follow? You’re in luck. We’ve compiled a list of ten incredibly inspiring and interesting artists that showcase their work and their lives on this social media platform.
Lena and Katya Popovy
This Instagram account will definitely spice up your timeline. The designers, Lena and Katya Popovy, create incredibly realistic, ethereal looking dolls and style and pose them for pictures. Their Instagram also features alluring videos showing how they make these enchanting figures.
Chloe Wise
Not only will this artist give you art inspiration, but Ms. Wise’s fashion sense will also have you scrolling through her feed to gather an outfit inspo from her. Her Instagram is filled with her art, with a peek inside her very busy and fun lifestyle. You’ll find capturing mixed media work, paintings, and extravagant outings with pictures to show off her eccentric personality.
Reisha Perlmutter
Reisha Perlmutter’s artwork is legendary. Her oil paintings popping up on your feed will guarantee to take your breath away. Her paintings are centered around people in bodies of water, capturing vulnerable moments in a way no photograph can.
Tina Maria Elena Bak
Wishing to see more sensual work? This artist will have you more than satisfied. Bak’s art ranges from watercolor to printmaking. Her art has an overall theme of love and erotica, and you’ll surely fall in love with her vivid colors and look forward to seeing her art show up on your timeline.
Petra Collins
Looking for more unusual, provoking artworks? Check out Petra Collins’ page. Collins is able to place us in the middle of a world filled with perverse thoughts and lucid landscapes with her creative photography skills. Her distinct feminist aesthetic has captured attention from high-end companies, causing her to be one of the leading voices of the New-Wave Feminism movement. She’s created campaigns for Gucci, Nordstrom, Adidas and others.
Alyssa Monks
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My show @forumgallery “Walls, Windows, & Mirrors” opens October 4th. “Daphne” 48x48in, oil on linen.
Monk’s work is definitely a sight for sore eyes. By creating layers of space and moments in her paintings, her artwork evokes feelings of the human experience and a strong sense of empathy. Her thickly applied brushstrokes create life-life artistry of human emotion.
Miss Meatface
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Currently being exhibited at The Untitled Space in New York, Miss Meatface came to life in 2014 when Kat Toronto, the artist, went through a brutal period in her life. Her artwork consists of multiple mediums- plates, photography and videos of erotic scenes that call dominance and submission into play. Her artwork questions heterosexual power hierarchies while her subjects overthrow standards society set on beauty, power and gender. If you’re looking for inspiration that will make you see society in a new light, check out her page.
Betty Tompkins
Tompkins was catapulted into the art scene after her large scale photorealistic paintings of heterosexual intercourse were exhibited in 2002. Her work was an unsung forerunner to contemporary involvement with sexual and transgressive imagery. Her more recent work will definitely dazzle your timeline, with reproductions of women in the renaissance era placed with many words used to describe women, many of them being sexist.
Hiba Schahbaz
Wondering what it means to be a woman in this world? Check out Hiba‘s profile and artwork to help answer your internal questions. Her purpose in creating her artwork is to contemplate the issues of a woman’s personal freedom, destruction, sexuality and the fragility and strength of the female form.
Fahren Feingold
Last, but most certainly not least, Fahren Feingold is an incredible artist that is able to provoke thoughts on femininity, identity politics and other topics alike. With her dreamlike colors and stroke work, her erotic depictions give voices to women of the past and present while traversing the female constructs in today’s society. If you want your watercolor fix with a touch of feminism, follow this fantastic artist.
