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Look Ma, no ear
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
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All Vinny, all the time
Bottoms up!
You'll have to pry it out of my cold dead hands!
Comes with a scuffed floor
Keep ya from going nutty
She loves me… She loves me not…
Where van Gogh met his end
Who's ugly now?
One of the few paintings Vincent ever sold
You've probably seen this everywhere
This is where the sunflowers got painted
Whoa there, Betsy!
The twinkling lights of Paris start to show through
Mixing dots and stripes?
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
Vincent's future?
Two scoops of red hyacinths
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We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
Up in flames
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.
Nasty storm
a sweet escape
My best hat yet
Best Frenemies and Heartbreak
Van Gogh’s Strange Addiction
Used to patch a chicken coop
Van Gogh's teachers did not like his work
Hats keep your head warm and help you look très mystérieuse
Look Ma, no ear!
The other Starry Night
What’s coal got to do with it?
Behind the Scenes at Arles
Where do we hang this?
Far-out fruit
Let’s go swimming in the wheat field
Selfie with a Straw Hat
A bit creepier than a friendship bracelet
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
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Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Sunset at Montmajour by Vincent van Gogh Pronunciation: /tro͞oˈvī/ Lauren helps...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Think twice before your next wax
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
This week we start with a classic: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, housed at...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Vase with 12 Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh at the Neue Pinakothek
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Is that a sword in your pocket?
There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
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...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
Made in a cabin
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
Child prodigy, charming, sophisticated. Like Renoir, impregnated two girls, married one
Went to great lengths to avoid milking cows
He sort of invented being an artist
Paid the bills by selling satirical cartoons before becoming (in)famous off nudes.
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Strange combination of old masters, modern art, and an in-house art video production department
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Wearing a vest of many colors
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Built by momma van den Bergh for her baby boy
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
We don't look good until you look good
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Angelica takes a stab at combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Rainbow colored wings = happyness
We're all going streaking!
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Too turnt
Not pregnant, just well dressed
Most stolen work of art ever!
Looks huge, is actually tiny
Sexy kinda
“I am so down to earth”
Not a creepy guy at all…
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Channeling Van Wilder in 1538
Hatscarves rule
Check out that window
Known as "the Little Magician"
Muses above your head
Everybody's sleeping with everybody
The Powder of Sympathy
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Sartle's patron god...the god of wise-assery
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...
Get ready for the waterworks
She's pretty... too pretty
Ambassador extraordinaire
Stifled with a strange perfume of horns
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
Rip van drinkle
Saint Selfie
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Not every rose has its thorn, apparently
Real housewives of 1636
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
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...
The abnormally happy couple
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
For one BIG garden
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
An enigma. All we really have are his utterly bizarre and awesome paintings
Owed money all over town
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Amsterdam gothic
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
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...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
Pasta is her brain fuel
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...