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This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Just keeps getting bigger
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Ambitious and driven or greedy?
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Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Suffered from ADD; good at starting, not finishing. Got caught in a gay foursome
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
It's hard to be pithy about statecraft and malaria
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
This story is juicy
Portraits of Belleville
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
A two-faced painting
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Wearing a vest of many colors
All Children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once one grows up...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo I...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Here is Marina Abramović’s Portrait with Scorpion (2005) We’re celebrating our...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Famous British Mugs
"The noblest of Washington buildings." - Walt Whitman
Women and children first
Stolen and flipped by the Vichy government
Shades of Black
I'mma let you finish, but. . .
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Buy now on The Met Store
Great Scott!
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
Build a bridge and get over it
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
The Young Bull by Paulus Potter at the MauritshuisLike a classic Taurus, I’m a bit...
The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
Happy birthday to our well-balanced Libras! Some would say the following artists...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
Tom Hanks struggled with this one
Picasso was accused of stealing it, and Napoleon hung it in his bedroom
This is how you treat a side chick. Give her a Leonardo
Part two of two!
Part one of two!
Unfinished as usual
“Madonna and the Bobble Head”
Even Jesus was obsessed with his plants
Where my Doges at?
That's one heavy helmet Oof
Rebirth, Re-use, Recycle
Whodunnit??
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Can’t touch this
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
Bound to appear, for hundreds of years
Turn that frown upside down
Cleaning dramaaa
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But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Freud’s favorite painting
The world's newest most expensive painting
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
An innocent red dot
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Stone Age sisters doin’ it for themselves
Like, Totally Rad Art Dude
An ancient dick pic
Work of hot air
Kim K. has nothing on Courbet
Watch now
Damn, I look good
Build like the Egyptians
Advertise your god-complex
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Find the elephant
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Real Housewives of Paris
He's a little young for fetish play
Pretty but kind of boring
*deep existential sigh*
Bringing the inside out
The only good reason to join a cult
These serpents made hiss-tory
Self-portrait with portrait in exchange for portrait
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Not everyone's photogenic
The sun never sets on Turner’s legacy
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
Portrait-ception
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
Oh shit!
Sexism sucks
No days off
Go ahead and take a peek
Another nude, Gerome?
The lighting isn't doing him any favors
The Pope who partied
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
BFF's til the end
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
I Spy: Lichtenstein edition
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Stolen, found, but not returned
I am talented and successful
Big-time First Lady
We love a hat moment
Mother in law
Olympia who?
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
This little painting went “wee wee wee...”
To the Earl goes the spoils
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
The past is female
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Frida loved Trostky. Stalin killed Trosky. Frida loved Stalin. Wait, what!?!?
Milk and cookies cause huge controversy
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
thump-thump thump-thump
We're suckers for a guy in a suit
Sexy kinda
Monkeys are the new roses
Because screw your cultural norms
BDSM much?
The Sun King
The Mad Masker
You won’t get a glimpse of the mustache
Snoozefest
Flashing all that bling bling
Surprise face!
Rescued by sled dogs
Drama drama drama
Not accurate
That's one melancholic Madame
Want to see a pic of Marsden’s crush?
She hated Frida Kahlo
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
Adolescent Metalpoint Master
A mystery lady
Magic mirror on the wall
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
“Help me, Obi-Wan Davinci. You’re my only hope.”
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...
Obsessed with calligraphy
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
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
Cruella O'Keeffe
I like it when you call me big poppa
Breakups will make us do crazy things
Was it all a dream?
What filter is that?
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
Gives new meaning to the term "food porn"
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
These masked reptiles are full of sage advice. I’m sure you’ve all...
Yep, the silent smile says it all. Please enjoy Mona Lisa Monday #2: The Pulp-a...
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
Careful, might make you howl!
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Frida showing off a menagerie, unibrow and 'stache
It all ended badly for Charles
It's good to be bad
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
The sweetest of portraits
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
#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
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Family portrait time!
Countess, confidante, and tester of men
Paul and Keanu's Excellent Adventure
A bit creepier than a friendship bracelet
Roses really smell like...
Demons never looked so sexy
Bow down
When a portrait isn't a portrait
Poor Sun Elk
Not your average portraiture
Marilyn Morimura
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
Study up!
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
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!
Long names and titles
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
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
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
A hotter mascot than the Pope
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
I can’t believe it’s not Peale
The abnormally happy couple
These women rock
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
Loves ants
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child by Bronzino at the Uffizi...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Portrait of Henry VIII of England by Hans Holbein the Younger Pronunciation: /cag-...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Captain Thomas Lee wants to know: who needs pants when you’ve got gams like...
Portrait of Captain Thomas Lee by Marcus Gheeraerts II at the Tate Britain
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Not Antea, but it's a good story
America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
Synesthetic symphony
Clueless has become as classically vintage as Cher’s 1972 columns with traces of...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
