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Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
A lot of self-reflection happens at the insane asylum
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
The twinkling lights of Paris start to show through
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
All Vinny, all the time
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
Hats keep your head warm and help you look très mystérieuse
Look Ma, no ear!
What’s coal got to do with it?
Selfie with a Straw Hat
Look Ma, no ear
A bit creepier than a friendship bracelet
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
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Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
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There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
My best hat yet
Used to patch a chicken coop
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Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
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…
The lighting isn't doing him any favors
Wearing a vest of many colors
Where van Gogh met his end
Who's ugly now?
One of the few paintings Vincent ever sold
You've probably seen this everywhere
Think twice before your next wax
This is where the sunflowers got painted
Whoa there, Betsy!
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
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
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...”
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Up in flames
Think like Socrates, groom beard like Dostoyevsky
Brittany hasn’t got anything on van Gogh.
Nasty storm
a sweet escape
Best Frenemies and Heartbreak
Van Gogh’s Strange Addiction
Portrait-ception
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
Frida loved Trostky. Stalin killed Trosky. Frida loved Stalin. Wait, what!?!?
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
Is that a sword in your pocket?
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Van Gogh's teachers did not like his work
The other Starry Night
Behind the Scenes at Arles
Where do we hang this?
Far-out fruit
Let’s go swimming in the wheat field
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Let it all hang out
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
Not pregnant, just well dressed
Sexy kinda
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Calling folks out
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Frida showing off a menagerie, unibrow and 'stache
Socialism never looked this sexy
I feel pretty, oh so pretty
That's not what he looks like
Pre-downward spiral
#MeToo circa 1600
“Hey, quit breathing down my neck!”
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Hatscarves rule
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Family portrait time!
Demons never looked so sexy
Marilyn Morimura
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Made in a cabin
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
It all ended badly for Charles
It's good to be bad
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
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.
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Shades of Black
Strange combination of old masters, modern art, and an in-house art video production department
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Sunset at Montmajour by Vincent van Gogh Pronunciation: /tro͞oˈvī/ Lauren helps...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
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
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Built by momma van den Bergh for her baby boy
We don't look good until you look good
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Great Scott!
This week we start with a classic: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, housed at...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
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
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
Vase with 12 Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh at the Neue Pinakothek
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Bound to appear, for hundreds of years
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
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....
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...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
The abnormally happy couple
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
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
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Pray the air conditioning holds out
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
(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
Amsterdam gothic
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
Rainbow colored wings = happyness
We're all going streaking!
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
OUCH
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Not everyone's photogenic
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
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...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Too turnt
Most stolen work of art ever!
Looks huge, is actually tiny
“I am so down to earth”
Not a creepy guy at all…
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
The Pope who partied
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
Channeling Van Wilder in 1538
Check out that window
Known as "the Little Magician"
Muses above your head
Everybody's sleeping with everybody
The Powder of Sympathy
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
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
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Sartle's patron god...the god of wise-assery
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
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
