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Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
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"I like that queasy feeling"
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The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Brand spankin' new!
Abraham Lincoln had his inaugural ball here
A mystery wrapped in an enigma
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Fort Worth a trip
Former tobacco plantation
Not made of crystals
Way better than the Old Britain museum
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
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Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
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
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
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Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
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The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
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...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
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Whodunnit??
Life in Iowa sucks
Check your home security system people
Whole Foods sold cigarettes?
Back before the sh*t hit the fan
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Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
The Latin LACMA
It says “nude,” right?
I overdid it
Don't look at me!
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
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
Rich people in the '60s
Bleeding red, white, and blue
Examine your systemic racism
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
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Oh shit!
Sexism sucks
No days off
Go ahead and take a peek
Another nude, Gerome?
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Wearing a vest of many colors
I Spy: Lichtenstein edition
Gothic tipi?
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Pre-bullets in the neck
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Shades of Black
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
On my latest trip to the “BIG APPLE” (I heard that’s what real New Yorkers call it...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Obsessed with calligraphy
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
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Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
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Arrested as an American spy in Britain during the Revolutionary War
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You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
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This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Loves ants
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
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…...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
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Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
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What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
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Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
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The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
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Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
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If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
So get ready!
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
Miley and Kim have a selfie showdown.Oh God, what have we done. Turns out the...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Yea, that's his real name
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Great beard, better art
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
Loves TV, hates men.
The Rembrandt of the video age
The better to hear you with, my dear
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
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
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Classic cosplay
The art world’s very own Cruella De Vil
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
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
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
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
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
They go apeshit over inequality!
Exactly as cool as her name sounds
Loves a big salad
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Some think he would look good in formaldehyde...
Buried like a pharaoh, in his favorite car with some choice accessories
She is goals
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
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
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Left the nunnery...
Plays the polka
Soft and scary
Like Midas, but different
The Obamas love him
The Great Deconstructor
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
A mama's girl
Married to a stone
"Talent is cheap"
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
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
A little dotty herself
As if the arts couldn't get any weirder
Genius from South Central
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
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
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
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Provocative shadows
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Businessman, con artist, hypochondriac, shooting victim, awesome
The court jester of the art world
Sir Shameless
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
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
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
His poop took down a power line in Berne
The man, the myth, the legend
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Shoplifter, electroshock therapy survivor, proverbial everywoman
Crazy camel lady
Painter with a green brush
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
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
“Anything you do will be an abuse of somebody else’s aesthetics.”
Sol for president
Born to watch paint dry
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…
On the dot
Artistic progeny
Picasso fanboy
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Impregnated two of his models, married one of them, painted from a wheelchair
Look Ma, no ear
Part monk, part playboy
Loves headless figures
Sadly, a member of the 27 club
Size matters...
Man Ray sounds more dangerous than Emmanuel Radnitzky
Possibly cut off van Gogh's ear
A good man in a messed up world
Stained canvases with gorgeous color
Jean du All Trades
Taste, hear, and smell these
A man of many names and many loves
“Art is swindle.”
Great fighter of censorship
Cuz he’s all about that place
Annoyingly talented
Painted guns, girls, and government figures.
Modernism’s Black voice.
He's dynamite
A Kodak family
An artist of war
I just want to do something personal
Probably banged your girlfriend
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Blonde, good looking, Aryan, yet Hitler hated his art and therefore hated him
Cross dressing revolutionary
Narrowly escaped the Nazis
He got very Close
Painter of bony white women and possible child rapist
#2 to Picasso is still pretty good.
Itching for an etching
NEEEERRRD!
Banker's son, anti Semite, ended up wandering the streets of Paris blind and alone
Would rather throw spitballs than study
If only all sellouts followed his example
Pow!
Precocious
Paid the bills by selling satirical cartoons before becoming (in)famous off nudes.
19th Century Wolverine
Artist and friend of Van Gogh and Gauguin
Sea = Dancer
Professional forger of both Picassos and bank notes
Has a disease named after him
Weird Al's "favorite MC"
Part artist, part comrade
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Artist Exposes genitals in Paris Museum StuntPerformance Artist Sits in From of...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Take your facial hair from bizarre to brilliant with these mustaches! Pieter...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
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