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Paul was a bit of a horndog
Just a martyr girl gang
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Cézanne's remix
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Meet me in St. Louis, Louis!
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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
Refused to kill Christians but slayed in that outfit
Life in the commune
Drama, drama, drama
Rub elbows with Hollywood's elite
Shoplifter, electroshock therapy survivor, proverbial everywoman
The patron saint of orgasms
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Possibly cut off van Gogh's ear
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Do what you're good at
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Unfinished business
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I'm here for my mud wrap and mani/pedi
Do I make you horny baa-baa?
growing up fast
Matthew 19:21
George, George, George of the Dragon
Last of the lead white
X marx the spot
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Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
A really, really bad trip
Who doesn't love a good old-fashioned decapitation?
Sister martyr
Stood her ground til the gruesome end
Hunka hunka burnin' love
Got milk?
A healthy dose of Catholic guilt
But wait... there’s more!
Slumped from stigmata
Sh*t’s Escalating...
Monet paints choo choo trains
Should've paid the ransom!
His brother's keeper
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Cezanne's bad boy phase
Between the sheets
T for Tony
Perks of being a tax collector
Aim for the heart
a sweet escape
Cleaning dramaaa
There’s no “i” in team
Not my idea of ecstasy
Baby before the Baptist
Not quite Game of Thrones
Van Gogh’s Strange Addiction
Shoot first, ask questions later
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?
Bluebird singing
To catch a predator
Phew, that was close.
Whoops He Pinned it Again
How you like them apples?
Weird science
Modern dance mama
Let's Get Ready to Rumble!
Beyond Gauguin & evil
Jesus got jaundice
Penny for her thoughts
Cavorting with prostitutes in Arles
Beheadings in the Pacific
The First Date
A carnival for the kids
"Fish are friends, not food"
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Jesus butts in on the devil's business
They both cleaned up nicely, considering...
Freud’s favorite painting
Boobs held high
#MeToo circa 1600
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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
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:...
Lambs can be kept as pets, who knew?
Beauty is the brains
Saint Selfie
Why is there a meat cleaver in my head?
Do the locomotion with me
A psalm of blood and milk
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
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
Two women who don't want to talk to you
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
Heyyy
I’m riding that hippo first!
It’s all about perspective
Footloose in French Polynesia
Falling for the same gal
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Not every rose has its thorn, apparently
If ya can't sell it, break it
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Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Apparently there's no food chain in heaven
He's bad
Genoa's fanciest
Always the centaur of attention
Behind the Scenes at Arles
Portrait-ception
Painting the patron
Paint me in too, old buddy
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
Paul and Keanu's Excellent Adventure
A bit creepier than a friendship bracelet
Familial murder and godly revenge
A great painter's quest away from painting
Cultural appropriation at its finest
A bargain at twice the price
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
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Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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Just another naked lady
The Earl goes bankrupt on art
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By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
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When Doves Cry
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It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
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Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
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The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
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The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
COTTON EYED JOE
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There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
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Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
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Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
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Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
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More masterpieces than monks these days
Last known painting of Manet's favorite model
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The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
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Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
Drank himself to artist martyrdom
Illustrator extraordinaire
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
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Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Step right up!
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Once Punched a Skeleton
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Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
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Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
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Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
