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Went to great lengths to avoid milking cows
Channeling Van Wilder in 1538
Sartle's patron god...the god of wise-assery
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
His most famous work of art and his first CD are both nothing
On par with the best of 'em
A life outside the lines
School is for fools
All the glee of youngsters
A Scot in Britain
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Known as "the Little Magician"
Chairs, man…
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Is that a sword in your pocket?
All Vinny, all the time
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
Miscreants of Mammon
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Child prodigy, charming, sophisticated. Like Renoir, impregnated two girls, married one
Look Ma, no ear
He sort of invented being an artist
Paid the bills by selling satirical cartoons before becoming (in)famous off nudes.
Strange combination of old masters, modern art, and an in-house art video production department
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
Stay in the grid
Even then it was all about the money
Built by momma van den Bergh for her baby boy
We don't look good until you look good
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
It's a fully formed oak tree
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Should've left it under your mattress
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
Or do worry, I'm a sign, not a cop
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Buy now on Art.com
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Bottoms up!
You'll have to pry it out of my cold dead hands!
Rainbow colored wings = happyness
Comes with a scuffed floor
Keep ya from going nutty
We're all going streaking!
She loves me… She loves me not…
Sister sister
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Mining doesn’t cause death
Too turnt
Where van Gogh met his end
Who's ugly now?
Not pregnant, just well dressed
One of the few paintings Vincent ever sold
You've probably seen this everywhere
Most stolen work of art ever!
Think twice before your next wax
Looks huge, is actually tiny
This is where the sunflowers got painted
Whoa there, Betsy!
The twinkling lights of Paris start to show through
Mixing dots and stripes?
Sexy kinda
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
“I am so down to earth”
Vincent's future?
Not a creepy guy at all…
Two scoops of red hyacinths
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Up in flames
Hatscarves rule
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.
Check out that window
Nasty storm
a sweet escape
My best hat yet
Muses above your head
Everybody's sleeping with everybody
The Powder of Sympathy
Best Frenemies and Heartbreak
Van Gogh’s Strange Addiction
Used to patch a chicken coop
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Van Gogh's teachers did not like his work
It all ended badly for Charles
It's good to be bad
Beheadings and fine fashion are not mutually exclusive
They both cleaned up nicely, considering...
Hats keep your head warm and help you look très mystérieuse
Look Ma, no ear!
Get ready for the waterworks
The other Starry Night
What’s coal got to do with it?
Behind the Scenes at Arles
She's pretty... too pretty
Where do we hang this?
Ambassador extraordinaire
Far-out fruit
Let’s go swimming in the wheat field
Stifled with a strange perfume of horns
Selfie with a Straw Hat
Marie Antoinette's best friend....possibly with benefits
A bit creepier than a friendship bracelet
Rip van drinkle
Saint Selfie
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Not every rose has its thorn, apparently
Real housewives of 1636
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
Sunset at Montmajour by Vincent van Gogh Pronunciation: /tro͞oˈvī/ Lauren helps...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
The abnormally happy couple
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
This week we start with a classic: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, housed at...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Vase with 12 Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh at the Neue Pinakothek
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
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...
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By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
For one BIG garden
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
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
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
An enigma. All we really have are his utterly bizarre and awesome paintings
Owed money all over town
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Amsterdam gothic
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Pasta is her brain fuel
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Angelica takes a stab at combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp by Rembrandt van Rijn and Woman at her...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
