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Kim Jon Un reminded us this week that some of the hallowed traditions of evil...
Wet blanket
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Child prodigy, charming, sophisticated. Like Renoir, impregnated two girls, married one
Oh say can you see
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All Children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once one grows up...
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo I...
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Well, he took it better than Captain Ahab
Richie Rich
This is an apology portrait.
paint me like one of your founding fathers
Scene so nice he painted it thrice
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July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Happy birthday to our well-balanced Libras! Some would say the following artists...
Matthew 19:21
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
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Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
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Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
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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...
Total poser
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,...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
Too turnt
Paul was a bit of a horndog
Not all temptations are equally tempting
A really, really bad trip
Sexy kinda
Sh*t’s Escalating...
“I am so down to earth”
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Whodunnit??
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
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Nothing like a ten-some to tempt a saint
T for Tony
Everybody's sleeping with everybody
The Powder of Sympathy
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Never forget
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
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Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
No problem, Señor Diablo
Jesus butts in on the devil's business
She's pretty... too pretty
Ambassador extraordinaire
Stifled with a strange perfume of horns
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
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Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
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Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Stone Age sisters doin’ it for themselves
Like, Totally Rad Art Dude
An ancient dick pic
Work of hot air
Portraits of Belleville
Kim K. has nothing on Courbet
Watch now
Damn, I look good
Build like the Egyptians
Advertise your god-complex
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In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
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Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
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The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
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The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
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Not every rose has its thorn, apparently
Real housewives of 1636
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
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
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
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This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
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The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
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Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
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Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
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As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
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Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Oh shit!
Sexism sucks
No days off
Go ahead and take a peek
Another nude, Gerome?
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Careful, might make you howl!
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
It’s nice to see, however, that his latest project (the “Journel (sic) of...
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We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
Wearing a vest of many colors
I Spy: Lichtenstein edition
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
These women rock
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As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
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Lovely sketch, sketchy love
The past is female
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
"Talent is cheap"
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Shades of Black
Take that Uncle Sam!
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
Not bad for a kid who lived in a bubble
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
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Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
Obsessed with calligraphy
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
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It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
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SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
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Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
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Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Hippest place in Brighton
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Loves ants
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Those Swiss have got it all!
Considerable collections
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
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Commemorating the Holocaust
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
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If anything, visit for the Isenheim Altarpiece
The best backdrop President Obama ever had
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
Doctor Who is here a lot
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Yea, that's his real name
Great beard, better art
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Loves TV, hates men.
The Rembrandt of the video age
The better to hear you with, my dear
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The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
You think you know, but you have no idea.
Critics call him “Modernism’s Evel Knievel.”
Bodhisattva of the art world
Extreme performance artist
Renaissance woman
A feast for the senses
Classic cosplay
The art world’s very own Cruella De Vil
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Barbed wire hula hoop dancer
Capitalizes on our compulsions...and our anxieties
Crusader for vaginas around the world
Queer of all trades
Rebel with plenty of cause
Like Wonder Woman but different
A new kind of art historian
Making subversive art under the radar
Blue eyes...
Not of the Bad Seeds...
A guy who knows how to get the ball rolling
Built a career off an idea he had at Burning Man
You light up my life
He's a regular techno Jesus
There's no one quite like her
Exciting and scaring museums globally
Changing the world, one photo at a time
They go apeshit over inequality!
Exactly as cool as her name sounds
Loves a big salad
Some think he would look good in formaldehyde...
Buried like a pharaoh, in his favorite car with some choice accessories
She is goals
Still waters run deep
Too hot for some critics
Korean techno superstar.
Donuts for the people!
Nothing like your grandma
Works that body
Minimal man
Rising star
Not a sports guy
She's still Jenny from the Block
The VR star
Punched William Carlos Williams in the face
Museum as canvas
Not suitable for children
Left the nunnery...
Plays the polka
Soft and scary
Like Midas, but different
The Obamas love him
The Great Deconstructor
A mama's girl
Married to a stone
Nature collagist
I’m not Pop, you are.
The ‘Evel’ Kinevel of the art scene
"Fell" out of a 34th floor window during an argument
Screamer
One man's trash is this man's treasure
His most famous work of art and his first CD are both nothing
Obey!
The trickster
From ant watcher to artist
One of her shows got shut down by the police
Sculpted strange tableaux, and died too young.
When a fire starts to burn...she'll be there
Abracadabra!
She's a Jill of all trades
Old style, new subjects
So. Cool.
Show her your beach bod
Cute politico
Almost murderer
Like a hoarder, but with less of the mess
Of the so-called “fuck off generation” of Chinese artists
One Who Is Talented
A little dotty herself
As if the arts couldn't get any weirder
Genius from South Central
Put the Hello in Helvetica. Not related to Freddie.
Rock on Yves...
Stellar
His art will knock you off your feet...literallly
From begging to bed-in
Dopehead? Maybe. Genius? Def.
Bad boy from Switzerland
May have been brain dead once
So wildly badass it's hard to handle
Died young in Ibiza
The rabble-rouser herself
Schmoozing to pass the time
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
Provocative shadows
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
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It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
Businessman, con artist, hypochondriac, shooting victim, awesome
The court jester of the art world
Sir Shameless
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
Fountain Lady
Basic betches love Banksy
The uncanny valley of kitsch
Brush is mightier than the stethoscope
Her genital puns are not gentle
Picked a dangerous medium for someone so unlucky.
Trash to treasure
Let him blow ya mind
Brother nature
Hello Kitty on shrooms
Vomits rainbows
Genius from Korea
Turn on, tune in, drop out
Cutting racial commentary
Outsider turned insider
Got tired of brushes v quickly
Creepy art
He made geometry dramatic
OG Abstract Expressionist
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
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Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
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His poop took down a power line in Berne
The man, the myth, the legend
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
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Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
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Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
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Shoplifter, electroshock therapy survivor, proverbial everywoman
Crazy camel lady
Painter with a green brush
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Steel mill is his studio
Likes to psychoanalyse viewers with his art
Italian bad boy. His shit is worth its weight in gold.
Glamourous...
Expat
He has a lot to say about his art and his art is all about him
Always on the Lookout for Technological Invention and Innovation in Film.
Could have also picked the name Judy Vagina
Does a surprisingly good Mona Lisa impression
Optical illusions and Kate Moss lookalikes
Queen of appropriation
Ain't no quilting granny
If Star Trek is your thing...
Didn't want to live in America anyway
A man of many names and one iconic mustache.
The sink guy, but not a plumber
Loves zoot suits
Competing with Mother Nature
The Black Atlantic
Ground Control to Major Tom
Not your average frontiersman
Favorite hangout? The desert.
The Inventor of the Snapshot
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The Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet
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“Anything you do will be an abuse of somebody else’s aesthetics.”
Sol for president
It haunts your dreams, it gives you the heebie jeebies, it makes you want to shriek...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
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Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
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Back Seat Dodge ‘38 by Edward Kienholz at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium
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George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
The Hangover (Suzanne Valadon) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at the Fogg Museum
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Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
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What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Faulty Landscape (Paysage Fautif) by Marcel Duchamp at the Museum of Modern Art...
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Born to watch paint dry
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Promoter, businessman, married a porn star more famous than him
Screamin' in Sweden (not really, he was Norwegian)
Copycat extraordinaire
The art world's Bono, but with better hair
Died in a plane crash for the sake of his art
Literally blew the whistle on art world elitism
Political radical with a cute mustache
Lord of Lights
Dainty art
Old school, but not in the cool way
Britain's most hated artist
The art world's thesaurus
She knows what she wants
Not a feel-good kind of guy
That creepy toddler artist
She's different
Has so many feelings
Chairs, man…
