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All Vinny, all the time
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Look Ma, no ear
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Built by momma van den Bergh for her baby boy
Bottoms up!
You'll have to pry it out of my cold dead hands!
Comes with a scuffed floor
Keep ya from going nutty
She loves me… She loves me not…
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Where van Gogh met his end
Who's ugly now?
One of the few paintings Vincent ever sold
You've probably seen this everywhere
Think twice before your next wax
This is where the sunflowers got painted
Whoa there, Betsy!
The twinkling lights of Paris start to show through
Mixing dots and stripes?
Where the magic happens
Asylum views
Murder, they wrote
The poor artist’s guide to making a trustfund baby
Auditioned but wasn't cast in the Van Gogh movie
Crows before you know
Eating oil paint in Saint-Rémy
Sources say it was cold there
Contains gluten
Once upon a time. . .
View from inside
Vincent's future?
Two scoops of red hyacinths
Up in flames
Think like Socrates, groom beard like Dostoyevsky
A lot of self-reflection happens at the insane asylum
Brittany hasn’t got anything on van Gogh.
Nasty storm
a sweet escape
My best hat yet
Best Frenemies and Heartbreak
Van Gogh’s Strange Addiction
Used to patch a chicken coop
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In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Van Gogh's teachers did not like his work
Hats keep your head warm and help you look très mystérieuse
Look Ma, no ear!
The other Starry Night
What’s coal got to do with it?
Behind the Scenes at Arles
Where do we hang this?
Far-out fruit
Let’s go swimming in the wheat field
Selfie with a Straw Hat
Is that a sword in your pocket?
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
A bit creepier than a friendship bracelet
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Sunset at Montmajour by Vincent van Gogh Pronunciation: /tro͞oˈvī/ Lauren helps...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
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No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Made in a cabin
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Child prodigy, charming, sophisticated. Like Renoir, impregnated two girls, married one
Went to great lengths to avoid milking cows
He sort of invented being an artist
Paid the bills by selling satirical cartoons before becoming (in)famous off nudes.
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
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When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Wearing a vest of many colors
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
This week we start with a classic: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, housed at...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
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While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Vase with 12 Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh at the Neue Pinakothek
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...