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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...
All Vinny, all the time
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Look Ma, no ear
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
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By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
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Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
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…
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Sunset at Montmajour by Vincent van Gogh Pronunciation: /tro͞oˈvī/ Lauren helps...
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!
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
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...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Vase with 12 Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh at the Neue Pinakothek
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
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
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
Is that a sword in your pocket?
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
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
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
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...
A bit creepier than a friendship bracelet
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
Made in a cabin
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
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...
Strange combination of old masters, modern art, and an in-house art video production department
Wearing a vest of many colors
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Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Built by momma van den Bergh for her baby boy
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
We don't look good until you look good
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
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...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Angelica takes a stab at combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
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 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Rainbow colored wings = happyness
We're all going streaking!
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
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Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
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…
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
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
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
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
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
All 'bout that bass, 'bout that bass, no treble
Created by Sister Suffragette
Embrace your inner underdog and recreate Rocky Balboa's run to the top!
Get Smart! See art!
It's THE Met
MOMA knows everything goes better with Bacon!
Quality, not quantity
Motor city
Good wine and interesting art
Two museums in one
One of the wealthiest museums in America
Only place that call the Dutch Masters the "North Dutch school"
Named after a beer maker
Will somebody please think of the children??
Put a bird on it
A taste of Asia in the Tenderloin
Sweet Home Alabama
Cooler than an Orange Julius
In the Athens of Australia
It's free, not cheap
I would walk 500 miles...
It's hammer time
Yee-haw
Probably the first museum to use guns as performance art
This museum is worth A-GO
Just keeps getting bigger
Joe Biden likes to come here (probably)
New Jersey gem
A capital collection in the capital of Ohio
It's pronounced Woo-stah
It's all about that space
Not blan(d) at all
Welcome to the jungle
Mo Money, Mo Museums
Get High on art here
Lots of art in the heartland
Awesome, free, big-city museum
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
A gift to the Nation
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Rip van drinkle
Saint Selfie
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp by Rembrandt van Rijn and Woman at her...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Not every rose has its thorn, apparently
Real housewives of 1636
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
USA's very first art school and museum
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
Created as part of the New Deal
Enjoy art in an architectural iceburg
One of the oldest public art museums in America
Has a cool grand staircase
Who run the world? Girls!
Brand spankin' new!
Don't get dizzy walking around this circular museum
Has a lot of money to throw around
Abraham Lincoln had his inaugural ball here
Figure out the way to San Jose...ASAP!
Throw another cutting edge exhibit on the barbie...?
2 rich guys, a museum, and a wing place
Happy wife happy life!
Great art in the windy city
Started by a navy man
Everything's bigger in Texas
Possibly haunted
Meet me in St. Louis, Louis!
Fits 423 hospital beds
Art on the walls and in the toilets
The first of its kind
Largest collection of British art outside the UK
When the mistress gets bored, build a museum
Free museums for the win
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Hippest place in Brighton
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Saved in times of war
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Crazy architecture and a rocking view
