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Up in flames
Look Ma, no ear
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Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
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Hats keep your head warm and help you look très mystérieuse
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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…
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
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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The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
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
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Van Gogh's teachers did not like his work
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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If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
Sunset at Montmajour by Vincent van Gogh Pronunciation: /tro͞oˈvī/ Lauren helps...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Think twice before your next wax
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
This week we start with a classic: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, housed at...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Vase with 12 Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh at the Neue Pinakothek
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
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...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Is that a sword in your pocket?
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
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
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
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...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
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...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
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The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
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...
The one that got away
Can't get more LA than this
Pop politics
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
He sort of invented being an artist
Child prodigy, charming, sophisticated. Like Renoir, impregnated two girls, married one
Went to great lengths to avoid milking cows
Paid the bills by selling satirical cartoons before becoming (in)famous off nudes.
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
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...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Strange combination of old masters, modern art, and an in-house art video production department
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
The Revolution will have shapes
We don't look good until you look good
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
Built by momma van den Bergh for her baby boy
Hogarth was all about that pug life
Move over, Judith!
He left the cat for last
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At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Girl crush
Angelica takes a stab at combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
The evolution of infatuation
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Rainbow colored wings = happyness
We're all going streaking!
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...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
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…
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
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
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
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
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
Rip van drinkle
Saint Selfie
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Not every rose has its thorn, apparently
Real housewives of 1636
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
Miley and Kim have a selfie showdown.Oh God, what have we done. Turns out the...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
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...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
The abnormally happy couple
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
For one BIG garden
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
An enigma. All we really have are his utterly bizarre and awesome paintings
Owed money all over town
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Amsterdam gothic
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
Pasta is her brain fuel
Jesuit missionary work gone horribly wrong
Wandering souls
This room drove its owner insane
Depressed, not depressing
Planting the seed
90s and neon...so on trend
Don't turn the thermostat up too high
Get your hand out of your pants, Sollie!
Censorship makes us crabby
Gives new meaning to "eating out"
No one knows just how deep it goes
Making the most of fire and brimstone
Only men can see this one
As close to hurtling through space as most of us will get
Walk on their faces
Experience infinity in one minute
The sweetest of portraits
Revolution!
Here we goooo
Unmade, smelly and dirty.
Classic Hirst
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
Calling all cynical pessimists!
Finally, a female gaze
Claustrophobics beware
"I like that queasy feeling"
Someone wasn’t paying attention in Sunday School
Monument to a bromance
Not even a little bit
Singin’ in a ring
Epileptics beware
Pretty sure they are laughing at you, not with you
A victim of the urban housing crisis
Too school for cool
Could be an ad for a Life Alert commercial
Shia LeBeouf, is that you?
But especially vices
Netflix and chill...with Buddha
One depressing miscommunication
A walk on the beach
Fancy birthday presents
A sedimental work for a sentimental guy
Marching to the beat of her own drum
A stoner's dream
A techy tower
He barely tried
What do Henri Matisse and Ellen DeGeneres have in common?
The artworld goes to seed
201 spheres in a big circus tent
Where Superman meets Sylvia Plath
Bless your heart
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp by Rembrandt van Rijn and Woman at her...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
Silk-eh, not Silky
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
