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He's not instilling fear in any pheasants
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Married the model
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You can find me in the club, bottle full of bub
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He's convinced me now, that Benziger fellow
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The greatest sacrifice
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A man of many names and many loves
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Morning in mid-Montmartre
Killing me Softly
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On again off again fake
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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Deep in thought in San Francisco
A rarity: deep thought in DC
Falsely accused
All the single ladies!
Little bronze people in agony
You've caught my soul!
The walls are falling on all of us
“Everything means nothing if I can’t have you…”
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One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Muse has Rodin by the junk
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You don't need to be a scholar
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Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
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Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
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She's a man eater, make you work hard, make you spend hard
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A stylistic orgy
Don't look no no, don't touch no no
Group photo time!
Oriental harem tours with Ingres
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Anatomy sacrificed for beauty
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One high-class whore
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Such a punchable face
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Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
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I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo I...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
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Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
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There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
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There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Trash to treasure
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The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Dude loved his dots
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
