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This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
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Too cool for New Zealand
Margaret Thatcher called him "that man who paints those dreadful pictures"
Brothel artist
Red is the coldest color
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Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Sorry PETA
Behold, the contents of your nightmares
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
It’s exactly what it sounds like
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Made in a cabin
Bacon paints meat
Christian nightmares
Epitome of feeling blue
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
A real O.G.
Wearing a vest of many colors
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Meat blender
Star-spangled liar
Slumped from stigmata
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Making money via faith.
What filter is that?
Just another naked lady
Witness her
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Sigourney Weaver's problem
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
We want the Funk
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Another unsuccessful rebranding attempt for Marie-Antoinette
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Pre-bullets in the neck
Here is Marina Abramović’s Portrait with Scorpion (2005) We’re celebrating our...
BFF's til the end
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Viewer discretion advised
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
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If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Did you hear that not one but TWO mummies in the Vatican’s “Ancient...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Odalisque with Red Culottes by Henri Matisse
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Yep, the silent smile says it all. Please enjoy Mona Lisa Monday #2: The Pulp-a...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
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This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
