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Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
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Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
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Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
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Who said the world of commerce has to be boring?
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“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
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In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
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Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
So get ready!
Oh say can you see
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This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
If looks could kill
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
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Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
A Bacchanal without Pollock
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
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Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
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Reading rainbow
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Don't panic, it's organic
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
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This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
The end of the world as we know it, but Kenny feels fine
Black Girl Magic
Baby won’t you light my fire
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Stick it to The Man
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
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The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Surf's up, dude
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(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
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This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
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The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
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Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
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The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
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Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
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Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
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‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
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66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
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Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
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It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
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Jesus has had enough!
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Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
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via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
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Witch orgy prep
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Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
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Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
Deep, dark humor
An unfortunate moral dilemma…
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
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Not your mother's art
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Never forget
Bad weather, good painting
“I've been everywhere, man...”
Footloose in French Polynesia
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
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The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
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Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
I come bearing gifts of flowers and revolution
Second track in PBtheE's seasons album
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
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Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
