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The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
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....
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
Famous British Mugs
"The noblest of Washington buildings." - Walt Whitman
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Great Scott!
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
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Bound to appear, for hundreds of years
Sorry PETA
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Hitler's jam
Cablah-blah-blah
Bet on black
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
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Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Act spontaneous!
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Self-portrait with portrait in exchange for portrait
Planting seeds
Not everyone's photogenic
Portrait-ception
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
Behind the Scenes at Arles
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
The lighting isn't doing him any favors
The Pope who partied
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
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Fighting the canvas
Let’s paint here, they won’t find us
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Stolen, found, but not returned
I am talented and successful
Big-time First Lady
We love a hat moment
Mother in law
You’ll never think of “drip painting” the same way again
Wiiiiild wiiilllld horsesss (and scary hyenas)
Rembrandt’s first selfie on panel
Not to be confused with N'awlins
Wrapped in red
The original King of Cool
Beyond Gauguin & evil
Portraits of Belleville
This little painting went “wee wee wee...”
To the Earl goes the spoils
A star is born
I want to paint it black
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Olympia who?
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Very precious plaster
Vacation home art
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Frida loved Trostky. Stalin killed Trosky. Frida loved Stalin. Wait, what!?!?
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
The twinkling lights of Paris start to show through
We're suckers for a guy in a suit
This story is juicy
Sexy kinda
Monkeys are the new roses
The Sun King
The Mad Masker
Snoozefest
Flashing all that bling bling
Rescued by sled dogs
Drama drama drama
That's one melancholic Madame
Want to see a pic of Marsden’s crush?
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
Keep your budget tight and your circles tighter
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
Magic mirror on the wall
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Milk and cookies cause huge controversy
thump-thump thump-thump
Because screw your cultural norms
BDSM much?
You won’t get a glimpse of the mustache
Surprise face!
Not accurate
She hated Frida Kahlo
Adolescent Metalpoint Master
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Hatscarves rule
Lots of perks to being a vestal virgin, but also some risks
Her nickname was "la bella Simonetta"
Let it all hang out
A lot of self-reflection happens at the insane asylum
I like it when you call me big poppa
Breakups will make us do crazy things
Was it all a dream?
More than just a teacher’s pet.
Boss lady
Now that's a resting bitch face
Pet Goals
It’s the circle of life and politics
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
Paint with all seven fingers
My best hat yet
LL, is that you?
Our little weakness...
Bully!
Some More Drama
No more drinkie
Goin' to the chapel, gonna get married
The spirit of Caesar
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
That other pandemic
What filter is that?
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Cruella O'Keeffe
Gives new meaning to the term "food porn"
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Frida showing off a menagerie, unibrow and 'stache
Pretty, fat, and on the fast track
Troublemaker!
Hats keep your head warm and help you look très mystérieuse
Look Ma, no ear!
Socialism never looked this sexy
Accidental POTUS
I feel pretty, oh so pretty
That's not what he looks like
Pre-downward spiral
What’s coal got to do with it?
Actually, she likes this portrait
Wearing a vest of many colors
#MeToo circa 1600
Family portrait Kahlo-style
Who is she?
“Hey, quit breathing down my neck!”
Stylish long before Gossip Girl
Fangirl-ing
de Los Cachuchas
Meddlesome Millie
Selfie with a Straw Hat
More like Honest Babe
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
It all ended badly for Charles
It's good to be bad
The sweetest of portraits
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Family portrait time!
Countess, confidante, and tester of men
It's hard to be pithy about statecraft and malaria
Paul and Keanu's Excellent Adventure
A bit creepier than a friendship bracelet
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
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
Demons never looked so sexy
Marilyn Morimura
Study up!
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
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!
Shades of Black
Long names and titles
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
Before they hated each other's guts
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
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
A hotter mascot than the Pope
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
I can’t believe it’s not Peale
The abnormally happy couple
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Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
These women rock
