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Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
The twinkling lights of Paris start to show through
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
A lot of self-reflection happens at the insane asylum
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
All Vinny, all the time
Hats keep your head warm and help you look très mystérieuse
Look Ma, no ear!
What’s coal got to do with it?
Selfie with a Straw Hat
Look Ma, no ear
A bit creepier than a friendship bracelet
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My best hat yet
Used to patch a chicken coop
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All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
The Phaaaaaaaaaaaaaantom of the opera is here!
The lighting isn't doing him any favors
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…
Wearing a vest of many colors
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!
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
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Self-portrait with portrait in exchange for portrait
I am talented and successful
We love a hat moment
Wiiiiild wiiilllld horsesss (and scary hyenas)
Rembrandt’s first selfie on panel
Beyond Gauguin & evil
This little painting went “wee wee wee...”
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Portrait-ception
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Up in flames
Think like Socrates, groom beard like Dostoyevsky
Brittany hasn’t got anything on van Gogh.
Nasty storm
a sweet escape
Best Frenemies and Heartbreak
Van Gogh’s Strange Addiction
Frida loved Trostky. Stalin killed Trosky. Frida loved Stalin. Wait, what!?!?
We're suckers for a guy in a suit
Monkeys are the new roses
Because screw your cultural norms
BDSM much?
The Mad Masker
You won’t get a glimpse of the mustache
Snoozefest
Not accurate
Keep your budget tight and your circles tighter
Adolescent Metalpoint Master
Magic mirror on the wall
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Van Gogh's teachers did not like his work
The other Starry Night
Behind the Scenes at Arles
Where do we hang this?
Far-out fruit
Let’s go swimming in the wheat field
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Is that a sword in your pocket?
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Let it all hang out
Breakups will make us do crazy things
What filter is that?
Pet Goals
It’s the circle of life and politics
Gives new meaning to the term "food porn"
Paint with all seven fingers
No more drinkie
The spirit of Caesar
That other pandemic
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Not pregnant, just well dressed
Sexy kinda
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Secret homework
Frida showing off a menagerie, unibrow and 'stache
Socialism never looked this sexy
I feel pretty, oh so pretty
That's not what he looks like
Pre-downward spiral
#MeToo circa 1600
“Hey, quit breathing down my neck!”
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Hatscarves rule
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Family portrait time!
Demons never looked so sexy
Marilyn Morimura
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
Gatsby eat your heart out
Morning in mid-Montmartre
It all ended badly for Charles
It's good to be bad
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Made in a cabin
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
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...
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.
Shades of Black
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Sunset at Montmajour by Vincent van Gogh Pronunciation: /tro͞oˈvī/ Lauren helps...
Strange combination of old masters, modern art, and an in-house art video production department
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
They hated it then they loved it. The French will never be pleased
The OG wet t-shirt contest
Scary cat hogs all the gravity
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Before they hated each other's guts
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Famous British Mugs
"The noblest of Washington buildings." - Walt Whitman
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Bad weather, good painting
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Built by momma van den Bergh for her baby boy
This week we start with a classic: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, housed at...
We don't look good until you look good
Great Scott!
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
Vase with 12 Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh at the Neue Pinakothek
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
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...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Bound to appear, for hundreds of years
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
Imitation is the sincerest form of brown-nosing
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
The abnormally happy couple
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
