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Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
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Motor city
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By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
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This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
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via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
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Harlequin Head by Pablo Picasso
Reclining Nude by Suzanne Valadon
Diana and Actaeon by Francesco Albani
A Grotesque Old Woman by Quentin Matsys
Inn with Drunken Peasants (Boerendrinkpartij) by Adriaen Brouwer
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Nude Woman in a Red Armchair by Pablo Picasso
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The Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet
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Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
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Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
The Hangover (Suzanne Valadon) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at the Fogg Museum
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
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Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
Portrait of Captain Thomas Lee by Marcus Gheeraerts II at the Tate Britain
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Faulty Landscape (Paysage Fautif) by Marcel Duchamp at the Museum of Modern Art...
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George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
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Leonardo who?
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Gives new meaning to "eating out"
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One: Number 31, 1950 by Jackson Pollock at the Museum of Modern Art
Is there a doctor in the house?
Used to patch a chicken coop
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Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
We dont need no education
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To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
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Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
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Rethinking calling their Armada unsinkable
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Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
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Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
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It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
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Your capitalism is showing
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Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
