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Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
A lot of self-reflection happens at the insane asylum
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It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
The twinkling lights of Paris start to show through
Hats keep your head warm and help you look très mystérieuse
Look Ma, no ear!
What’s coal got to do with it?
Selfie with a Straw Hat
All Vinny, all the time
Look Ma, no ear
A bit creepier than a friendship bracelet
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Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
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My best hat yet
Used to patch a chicken coop
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After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
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…
The lighting isn't doing him any favors
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
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!
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
Self-portrait with portrait in exchange for portrait
I am talented and successful
We love a hat moment
Wiiiiild wiiilllld horsesss (and scary hyenas)
Rembrandt’s first selfie on panel
Beyond Gauguin & evil
This little painting went “wee wee wee...”
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Portrait-ception
Up in flames
Think like Socrates, groom beard like Dostoyevsky
Brittany hasn’t got anything on van Gogh.
Nasty storm
a sweet escape
Best Frenemies and Heartbreak
Van Gogh’s Strange Addiction
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Frida loved Trostky. Stalin killed Trosky. Frida loved Stalin. Wait, what!?!?
We're suckers for a guy in a suit
Monkeys are the new roses
Because screw your cultural norms
BDSM much?
The Mad Masker
You won’t get a glimpse of the mustache
Snoozefest
Not accurate
Keep your budget tight and your circles tighter
Adolescent Metalpoint Master
Magic mirror on the wall
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Is that a sword in your pocket?
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Van Gogh's teachers did not like his work
The other Starry Night
Behind the Scenes at Arles
Where do we hang this?
Far-out fruit
Let’s go swimming in the wheat field
Calling folks out
Let it all hang out
Breakups will make us do crazy things
What filter is that?
Pet Goals
It’s the circle of life and politics
Gives new meaning to the term "food porn"
Paint with all seven fingers
No more drinkie
The spirit of Caesar
That other pandemic
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Not pregnant, just well dressed
Sexy kinda
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In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
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People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Frida showing off a menagerie, unibrow and 'stache
Socialism never looked this sexy
I feel pretty, oh so pretty
That's not what he looks like
Pre-downward spiral
#MeToo circa 1600
“Hey, quit breathing down my neck!”
Hatscarves rule
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Family portrait time!
Demons never looked so sexy
Marilyn Morimura
It all ended badly for Charles
It's good to be bad
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
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.
Shades of Black
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
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...
Strange combination of old masters, modern art, and an in-house art video production department
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Sunset at Montmajour by Vincent van Gogh Pronunciation: /tro͞oˈvī/ Lauren helps...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Before they hated each other's guts
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Famous British Mugs
"The noblest of Washington buildings." - Walt Whitman
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Built by momma van den Bergh for her baby boy
We don't look good until you look good
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Great Scott!
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...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
Vase with 12 Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh at the Neue Pinakothek
Bound to appear, for hundreds of years
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
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....
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...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
The abnormally happy couple
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
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To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
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Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Pray the air conditioning holds out
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What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
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Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
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Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Amsterdam gothic
Rainbow colored wings = happyness
We're all going streaking!
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OUCH
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
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Not everyone's photogenic
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In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
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Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Too turnt
Most stolen work of art ever!
Looks huge, is actually tiny
“I am so down to earth”
Not a creepy guy at all…
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
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Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
The Pope who partied
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
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I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Channeling Van Wilder in 1538
Check out that window
Known as "the Little Magician"
Muses above your head
Everybody's sleeping with everybody
The Powder of Sympathy
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
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Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
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Stolen, found, but not returned
Big-time First Lady
Mother in law
Olympia who?
You’ll never think of “drip painting” the same way again
Not to be confused with N'awlins
Wrapped in red
The original King of Cool
Portraits of Belleville
To the Earl goes the spoils
Sartle's patron god...the god of wise-assery
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
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Gothic tipi?
Rip van drinkle
Saint Selfie
Milk and cookies cause huge controversy
Stolen and recovered in no time at all
Manet's BFF
Jack of all trades
She was a trendsetter
Umbrella collector
Big henry
thump-thump thump-thump
This story is juicy
The Sun King
Flashing all that bling bling
Surprise face!
Rescued by sled dogs
Drama drama drama
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
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
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Not every rose has its thorn, apparently
Real housewives of 1636
Lots of perks to being a vestal virgin, but also some risks
Her nickname was "la bella Simonetta"
Cruella O'Keeffe
I like it when you call me big poppa
Was it all a dream?
More than just a teacher’s pet.
Boss lady
Now that's a resting bitch face
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
LL, is that you?
Our little weakness...
Bully!
Some More Drama
Goin' to the chapel, gonna get married
We don't know much…
First off, that is a really unfortunate name
Came with a letter of explanation
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Angelica takes a stab at combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Pretty, fat, and on the fast track
Troublemaker!
The sweetest of portraits
Accidental POTUS
Actually, she likes this portrait
Wearing a vest of many colors
Family portrait Kahlo-style
Who is she?
Stylish long before Gossip Girl
Fangirl-ing
de Los Cachuchas
Meddlesome Millie
More like Honest Babe
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Countess, confidante, and tester of men
It's hard to be pithy about statecraft and malaria
Paul and Keanu's Excellent Adventure
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
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!
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
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
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
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George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
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
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
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Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
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sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
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A hotter mascot than the Pope
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You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Obsessed with calligraphy
I can’t believe it’s not Peale
These women rock
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Take your facial hair from bizarre to brilliant with these mustaches! Pieter...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
For one BIG garden
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...
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Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
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Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
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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 Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Portrait of Henry VIII of England by Hans Holbein the Younger Pronunciation: /cag-...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
