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Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
All Vinny, all the time
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Look Ma, no ear
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Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
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By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Bottoms up!
You'll have to pry it out of my cold dead hands!
Comes with a scuffed floor
Keep ya from going nutty
She loves me… She loves me not…
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Sunset at Montmajour by Vincent van Gogh Pronunciation: /tro͞oˈvī/ Lauren helps...
Where van Gogh met his end
Who's ugly now?
One of the few paintings Vincent ever sold
You've probably seen this everywhere
Think twice before your next wax
This is where the sunflowers got painted
Whoa there, Betsy!
The twinkling lights of Paris start to show through
Mixing dots and stripes?
Where the magic happens
Asylum views
Murder, they wrote
The poor artist’s guide to making a trustfund baby
Auditioned but wasn't cast in the Van Gogh movie
Crows before you know
Eating oil paint in Saint-Rémy
Sources say it was cold there
Contains gluten
Once upon a time. . .
View from inside
Vincent's future?
Two scoops of red hyacinths
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Up in flames
Think like Socrates, groom beard like Dostoyevsky
A lot of self-reflection happens at the insane asylum
Brittany hasn’t got anything on van Gogh.
Nasty storm
a sweet escape
My best hat yet
Best Frenemies and Heartbreak
Van Gogh’s Strange Addiction
Used to patch a chicken coop
Vase with 12 Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh at the Neue Pinakothek
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
Is that a sword in your pocket?
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Van Gogh's teachers did not like his work
Hats keep your head warm and help you look très mystérieuse
Look Ma, no ear!
The other Starry Night
What’s coal got to do with it?
Behind the Scenes at Arles
Where do we hang this?
Far-out fruit
Let’s go swimming in the wheat field
Selfie with a Straw Hat
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
A bit creepier than a friendship bracelet
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Child prodigy, charming, sophisticated. Like Renoir, impregnated two girls, married one
Went to great lengths to avoid milking cows
He sort of invented being an artist
Paid the bills by selling satirical cartoons before becoming (in)famous off nudes.
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Strange combination of old masters, modern art, and an in-house art video production department
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Built by momma van den Bergh for her baby boy
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
We don't look good until you look good
This week we start with a classic: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, housed at...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Angelica takes a stab at combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Rainbow colored wings = happyness
We're all going streaking!
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Too turnt
Not pregnant, just well dressed
Most stolen work of art ever!
Looks huge, is actually tiny
Sexy kinda
“I am so down to earth”
Not a creepy guy at all…
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Channeling Van Wilder in 1538
Hatscarves rule
Check out that window
Known as "the Little Magician"
Muses above your head
Everybody's sleeping with everybody
