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a sweet escape
Look Ma, no ear
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
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Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
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It’sIn a world where I am Brad Pitt and my friends are George Clooney at the...
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Van Gogh’s Strange Addiction
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
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All Vinny, all the time
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
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…
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
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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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
My best hat yet
Best Frenemies and Heartbreak
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
Imitation is the sincerest form of brown-nosing
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Showed one of his female students how the male pelvis works
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
A bit creepier than a friendship bracelet
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
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When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Sunset at Montmajour by Vincent van Gogh Pronunciation: /tro͞oˈvī/ Lauren helps...
Think twice before your next wax
This week we start with a classic: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, housed at...
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...
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
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
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...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Is that a sword in your pocket?
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
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...
They both cleaned up nicely, considering...
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...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
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...
Why wear gym shorts?
No homo!
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
Saint Selfie
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Meet me in St. Louis, Louis!
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
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...
Refused to kill Christians but slayed in that outfit
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...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Sir Talks-a-lot
Tribute to a Dutch painter
He had an eye for music (and nudity...)
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Not every rose has its thorn, apparently
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Life in the commune
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
The Maine Adventure
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Shoplifter, electroshock therapy survivor, proverbial everywoman
The patron saint of orgasms
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
Real recognize real
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...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Going after her friends’ poems
Are you in touch with your feelings?
The hills are alive
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Strange combination of old masters, modern art, and an in-house art video production department
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
Row, row, row your boat
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
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
We don't look good until you look good
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
A long-forgotten treasure from Baroque’s leading lady
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
Original pieces from 942 can still be seen
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Unfinished business
Many of my reviews are based off of my experiences as a shih tzu skeptic, a middle...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
I'm here for my mud wrap and mani/pedi
Do I make you horny baa-baa?
growing up fast
Matthew 19:21
George, George, George of the Dragon
Last of the lead white
X marx the spot
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
Not at all like Greys Anatomy
Angelica takes a stab at combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Paul was a bit of a horndog
A really, really bad trip
Who doesn't love a good old-fashioned decapitation?
Sister martyr
Stood her ground til the gruesome end
Hunka hunka burnin' love
Got milk?
A healthy dose of Catholic guilt
But wait... there’s more!
Slumped from stigmata
Sh*t’s Escalating...
Monet paints choo choo trains
Should've paid the ransom!
His brother's keeper
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
T for Tony
Perks of being a tax collector
Aim for the heart
Just a martyr girl gang
Cleaning dramaaa
There’s no “i” in team
Not my idea of ecstasy
Baby before the Baptist
Not quite Game of Thrones
Shoot first, ask questions later
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
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...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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...
Jesus butts in on the devil's business
Freud’s favorite painting
Boobs held high
#MeToo circa 1600
Cézanne's remix
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Just a few things about me: I love cuddles and all things sexy, which I make...
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This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...
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…
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Lambs can be kept as pets, who knew?
Beauty is the brains
Why is there a meat cleaver in my head?
Do the locomotion with me
A psalm of blood and milk
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
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
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
These masked reptiles are full of sage advice. I’m sure you’ve all...
This week we’re looking at a piece of art that we all know from our freshman year:...
If ya can't sell it, break it
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
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...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
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
Get ready for the waterworks
She's pretty... too pretty
Ambassador extraordinaire
Stifled with a strange perfume of horns
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
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...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
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...
Rip van drinkle
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Real housewives of 1636
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
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...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
The abnormally happy couple
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
For one BIG garden
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
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...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
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 ...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Last known painting of Manet's favorite model
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
What’s more alarming: an avalanche or climate change?
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
An enigma. All we really have are his utterly bizarre and awesome paintings
Owed money all over town
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Amsterdam gothic
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
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
