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Provocative shadows
"I like that queasy feeling"
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
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Blurring lines in the Bay
Obsessed with calligraphy
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
The Photocentric Cynic
Revolution!
Named after a beer maker
I would walk 500 miles...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Bless your heart
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Fight the flab
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
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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
World’s worst word search
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
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
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Buy now on The Met Store
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Made in a cabin
A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly crude...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
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...
Here is Marina Abramović’s Portrait with Scorpion (2005) We’re celebrating our...
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
Happy birthday to our well-balanced Libras! Some would say the following artists...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
Whodunnit??
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Picture perfect American naivete
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
Skating on thick ice
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Fake it 'til you make it
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
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
Damn, I look good
Build like the Egyptians
Advertise your god-complex
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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
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
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Oh shit!
Sexism sucks
No days off
Go ahead and take a peek
Another nude, Gerome?
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
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
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
The past is female
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
Shades of Black
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Loves ants
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Jesuit missionary work gone horribly wrong
Wandering souls
This room drove its owner insane
Depressed, not depressing
Planting the seed
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
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
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
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
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…...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
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Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
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The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
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Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
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Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Yea, that's his real name
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Literally *fire*
Great beard, better art
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Loves TV, hates men.
The Rembrandt of the video age
The better to hear you with, my dear
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
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
They go apeshit over inequality!
Exactly as cool as her name sounds
Loves a big salad
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
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
"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
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
Businessman, con artist, hypochondriac, shooting victim, awesome
The court jester of the art world
Sir Shameless
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
His poop took down a power line in Berne
The man, the myth, the legend
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
“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
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
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
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
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Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
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The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
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Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
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Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
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“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
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Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
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Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
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The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
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The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
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Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
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From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
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Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
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Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
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