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Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
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The lighting isn't doing him any favors
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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...”
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Portrait-ception
Frida loved Trostky. Stalin killed Trosky. Frida loved Stalin. Wait, what!?!?
The twinkling lights of Paris start to show through
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
Let it all hang out
A lot of self-reflection happens at the insane asylum
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
Frida showing off a menagerie, unibrow and 'stache
Hats keep your head warm and help you look très mystérieuse
Look Ma, no ear!
Socialism never looked this sexy
I feel pretty, oh so pretty
That's not what he looks like
Pre-downward spiral
What’s coal got to do with it?
#MeToo circa 1600
“Hey, quit breathing down my neck!”
Selfie with a Straw Hat
Family portrait time!
A bit creepier than a friendship bracelet
Demons never looked so sexy
Marilyn Morimura
Shades of Black
Before they hated each other's guts
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
Famous British Mugs
"The noblest of Washington buildings." - Walt Whitman
Great Scott!
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Bound to appear, for hundreds of years
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
Pray the air conditioning holds out
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
OUCH
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Not everyone's photogenic
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
The Pope who partied
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
Stolen, found, but not returned
Big-time First Lady
Mother in law
Olympia who?
You’ll never think of “drip painting” the same way again
Not to be confused with N'awlins
Wrapped in red
The original King of Cool
Portraits of Belleville
To the Earl goes the spoils
Gothic tipi?
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Milk and cookies cause huge controversy
Stolen and recovered in no time at all
Not pregnant, just well dressed
Manet's BFF
Jack of all trades
She was a trendsetter
Umbrella collector
Big henry
thump-thump thump-thump
This story is juicy
Sexy kinda
The Sun King
Flashing all that bling bling
Surprise face!
Rescued by sled dogs
Drama drama drama
That's one melancholic Madame
Want to see a pic of Marsden’s crush?
She hated Frida Kahlo
Poor unfortunate simonetta
Kahlo family Christmas card
Fine, you can paint my portrait, but you have to include my dog
Horse Girl finds her Dream Man
The face of romance
Destroyer of dragons
“He’s a good kid”
Anything for the king
Son of a brewer, owned by an inside man
Child super-genius
A singular achievement
Geniuses, niece and auntie
A mystery lady
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Hatscarves rule
Lots of perks to being a vestal virgin, but also some risks
Her nickname was "la bella Simonetta"
Cruella O'Keeffe
I like it when you call me big poppa
Was it all a dream?
More than just a teacher’s pet.
Boss lady
Now that's a resting bitch face
Rocking the five-head
Mary's big bro
Loneliness in the city
Delacroix’s Arab culture fetish
Atypical portrait by an atypical artist
Neckties, pianos, and outcasts
Wholesome bro
My best hat yet
LL, is that you?
Our little weakness...
Bully!
Some More Drama
Goin' to the chapel, gonna get married
We don't know much…
First off, that is a really unfortunate name
Came with a letter of explanation
Used to patch a chicken coop
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
It all ended badly for Charles
It's good to be bad
Pretty, fat, and on the fast track
Troublemaker!
The sweetest of portraits
Accidental POTUS
Actually, she likes this portrait
Wearing a vest of many colors
Family portrait Kahlo-style
Who is she?
Stylish long before Gossip Girl
Fangirl-ing
de Los Cachuchas
Meddlesome Millie
More like Honest Babe
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
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...
Countess, confidante, and tester of men
It's hard to be pithy about statecraft and malaria
Paul and Keanu's Excellent Adventure
Roses really smell like...
Bow down
When a portrait isn't a portrait
Poor Sun Elk
Not your average portraiture
If at first you don’t succeed...
A pre-Dukehood portrait
A bargain at twice the price
Amsterdam gothic
It’s a rich man’s world
Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got
Friend of the fam
(You Drive Me) Crazy
Study up!
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...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Sister sister
Highly disturbing
Sexy and I know it
“No one will even see it…”
Stank face
Hear ye, hear ye! Spotless virgin paints queen consort!
Long names and titles
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
Just another beheading. Yawn
Can't hide a prostitute
Not at all like Greys Anatomy
Don't call it a comeback
A burn too sick for the ER
French portrait inception
I’m not a businessman. I’m a business, man.
Another unsuccessful rebranding attempt for Marie-Antoinette
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
A hotter mascot than the Pope
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
I can’t believe it’s not Peale
The abnormally happy couple
These women rock
Take your facial hair from bizarre to brilliant with these mustaches! Pieter...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...
Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
