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One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Art on the walls and in the toilets
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Right across from the palace. It's good to be the king!
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
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Caused a stir after its unveiling because of all the hot leg action.
Don’t be so naive
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
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Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
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via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
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Made in a cabin
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Wearing a vest of many colors
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We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Careful, might make you howl!
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Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
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Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
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Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
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As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
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We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
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The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...