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Bluebird singing
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Possibly cut off van Gogh's ear
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Let's Get Ready to Rumble!
Beyond Gauguin & evil
Jesus got jaundice
Penny for her thoughts
Cavorting with prostitutes in Arles
Beheadings in the Pacific
Planting the seed
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Two women who don't want to talk to you
Footloose in French Polynesia
Falling for the same gal
Behind the Scenes at Arles
Portrait-ception
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A bit creepier than a friendship bracelet
Cultural appropriation at its finest
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Just another naked lady
There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
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A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
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Rich diplomat/artist, loved fleshy girls, married a 16 year old when he was 53
Big Daddy of it all
His poop took down a power line in Berne
Wore a spiky helmet, just like Bismarck
Not a sports guy
Britain's most hated artist
Wanderlust for Western Canada
Boho Chic
On the dot
Rub elbows with Hollywood's elite
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Drama, drama, drama
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COTTON EYED JOE
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The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
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Do what you're good at
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Self-portrait with portrait in exchange for portrait
Cezanne's bad boy phase
Between the sheets
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
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When you're the god of wine you get to drink from a huge glass
See you at poker night
Have a holly jolly Christmas
Swim anyone?
Phew, that was close.
Whoops He Pinned it Again
How you like them apples?
Weird science
Modern dance mama
The First Date
A carnival for the kids
"Fish are friends, not food"
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Eat first, sex later
Delete the bits about rape and incest, and this could be a story out of Harry Potter
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Three graces are better than one
Paul was a bit of a horndog
Listen to your girlfriend. Especially if she's magic.
Art thieves caught red handed
It came back positive
Teaching aide
Queen got your tongue?
A Rubens sandwich of babies and anti-war sentiment
Waity Katie no more!
Stick it to The Man
And they say snacking after dinner is sinful
Always wear your seat belt
That's one melancholic Madame
Talent out the wazoo
A literal hellscape
Conveniently peaceful portrait
A little to the left, no, to the right
"You're tearing me apart!"
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
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When men were muscley, women were soft, and there were only four continents
Snack time
And that is how we got the constellation Gemini
Swastikas were ok at the time
Angel of Assassination
Because, Hitler
Baller Jesus
Rubens' fighting fleshlight
Baby Herc nips the nip
When the punishment doesn't fit the crime
Note: the actual event was a bit less serene
Just a martyr girl gang
Heyyy
I’m riding that hippo first!
It’s all about perspective
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(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Apparently there's no food chain in heaven
He's bad
Genoa's fanciest
Always the centaur of attention
Painting the patron
Paint me in too, old buddy
Cézanne's remix
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Paul and Keanu's Excellent Adventure
Familial murder and godly revenge
A great painter's quest away from painting
A bargain at twice the price
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The Earl goes bankrupt on art
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Don't call it a comeback
When Doves Cry
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Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
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Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
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Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
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Speaking out can have consequences
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Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
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Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
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Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
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Synesthetic symphony
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Drank himself to artist martyrdom
Illustrator extraordinaire
Step right up!
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
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Jesuit missionary work gone horribly wrong
Wandering souls
This room drove its owner insane
Depressed, not depressing
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
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Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
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Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
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It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
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Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
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Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
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Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
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The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Literally *fire*
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We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
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Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
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French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
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March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
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Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
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The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
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The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
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But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
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Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
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The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
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Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
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The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
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