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You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Possibly cut off van Gogh's ear
Bluebird singing
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Let's Get Ready to Rumble!
Beyond Gauguin & evil
Jesus got jaundice
Penny for her thoughts
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Beheadings in the Pacific
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Two women who don't want to talk to you
Footloose in French Polynesia
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Behind the Scenes at Arles
Portrait-ception
Buy now on Amazon
A bit creepier than a friendship bracelet
Cultural appropriation at its finest
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Just another naked lady
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Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Rich diplomat/artist, loved fleshy girls, married a 16 year old when he was 53
Big Daddy of it all
His poop took down a power line in Berne
Wore a spiky helmet, just like Bismarck
Not a sports guy
Britain's most hated artist
Wanderlust for Western Canada
Boho Chic
On the dot
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Drama, drama, drama
Rub elbows with Hollywood's elite
COTTON EYED JOE
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The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
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Do what you're good at
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Self-portrait with portrait in exchange for portrait
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
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Cezanne's bad boy phase
Between the sheets
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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When you're the god of wine you get to drink from a huge glass
See you at poker night
Have a holly jolly Christmas
Swim anyone?
Phew, that was close.
Whoops He Pinned it Again
How you like them apples?
Weird science
Modern dance mama
The First Date
A carnival for the kids
"Fish are friends, not food"
Eat first, sex later
Delete the bits about rape and incest, and this could be a story out of Harry Potter
Can "Jacked Renaissance Babies" become a thing?
Three graces are better than one
Paul was a bit of a horndog
Listen to your girlfriend. Especially if she's magic.
Art thieves caught red handed
It came back positive
Teaching aide
Queen got your tongue?
A Rubens sandwich of babies and anti-war sentiment
Waity Katie no more!
Stick it to The Man
And they say snacking after dinner is sinful
Always wear your seat belt
That's one melancholic Madame
Talent out the wazoo
A literal hellscape
Conveniently peaceful portrait
A little to the left, no, to the right
"You're tearing me apart!"
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
When men were muscley, women were soft, and there were only four continents
Snack time
And that is how we got the constellation Gemini
Swastikas were ok at the time
Angel of Assassination
Because, Hitler
Baller Jesus
Rubens' fighting fleshlight
Baby Herc nips the nip
When the punishment doesn't fit the crime
Note: the actual event was a bit less serene
Just a martyr girl gang
Heyyy
I’m riding that hippo first!
It’s all about perspective
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
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Apparently there's no food chain in heaven
He's bad
Genoa's fanciest
Always the centaur of attention
Painting the patron
Paint me in too, old buddy
Cézanne's remix
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Paul and Keanu's Excellent Adventure
Familial murder and godly revenge
A great painter's quest away from painting
A bargain at twice the price
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
The Earl goes bankrupt on art
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I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Don't call it a comeback
When Doves Cry
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
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The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
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Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
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Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
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Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
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At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
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Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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Synesthetic symphony
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Drank himself to artist martyrdom
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Once Punched a Skeleton
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Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
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If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
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Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
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Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
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One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
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Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
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It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
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Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
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Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
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Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
