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A stylistic orgy
A man of many names and many loves
As an art historian I often find myself correcting people’s misconceptions (a lot...
Oriental harem tours with Ingres
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
You don't need to be a scholar
She's a man eater, make you work hard, make you spend hard
Age is just a number when it comes to boobs
Don't look no no, don't touch no no
Group photo time!
Behind every hero is an overprotective mother
Twelve years later
Anatomy sacrificed for beauty
Such a punchable face
The end of the "holy" Roman empire
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Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
BFF's til the end
Middle fingers all around
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Boucher's wife models as a sex slave in training, discuss
Go away Apple!
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
He's not instilling fear in any pheasants
No bra days are the best days
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Gone too soon
He's convinced me now, that Benziger fellow
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
Now the big daddy of sculpture, Rodin was originally kind of a loser
Impregnated two of his models, married one of them, painted from a wheelchair
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Enjoys long walks on the beach, painting for patrons, and Italian food!
The Man, the Myth, the Cubist
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Get up, stand up. stand up for your right
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
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Why is a monkey in the middle of France?
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Playing dress up
Jean du All Trades
Ciao from Venizia
The Grand Canal, by the "Little Canal"
Sadly, a member of the 27 club
Old school, but not in the cool way
Rocked the Rococo World
Rococ-oh no he didn't
Couldn't catch a break
Rococo like a hurricane
Bad boy of the academy
Bad girl kiki
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
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...
Odalisque with Red Culottes by Henri Matisse
Not very smart, but had rich supportive parents
Killing me Softly
Just another lover's tryst
"Wish you were here!"
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Two-faced! But not how you think
Love or hate?
Deep in thought in San Francisco
A rarity: deep thought in DC
Falsely accused
All the single ladies!
Little bronze people in agony
Step right up!
You've caught my soul!
The walls are falling on all of us
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This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
The cult of drunkenness
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Muse has Rodin by the junk
The geniuses of the Weather underground strike a blow against thought
Is she being coy or does he have bad breath?
Don't lose your junior junior
Who’s to blame for the rococo revival?
Mamaaaaaaa
Married the model
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
Rag lady
More like the melon diptych, amiright?
Pretty bird
Skelly head
Swing, swingers, it's all the same
Walt Whitman was a fan
No such thing as bad publicity
Cubist dream
Back pain = youth leaving the body
Socrates gone mad
Deconstruction of the boob
Get your towels ready it's about to go down
2 dope queens
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat
I can see your halo, halo, halo
Lonely? Build your own girlfriend
Bashi-bazouk—Captain Haddock’s favorite expletive!
Game of Thrones, Season 4 Episode 8
A mystery wrapped in an enigma
“Not for sale” sells for $110.5 million
Like jazz, but a painting
Ma’am, your folds are showing
Young, dumb and in love
Shop til' Ya Drop
Bad and Boujee
The Realist in the game
Exactly the white kind of person
A big old brouhaha
A horse walks into a bar...
Sisters before mistresses
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Late night liaisons
I've been seduced alright... by that great sense of humor!
Not unraveling the moral fabric, probably
SAMO's Pharaoh
Just another pervy kid in Paris
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
Italian sass with Segatori
A bloody family affair
Another nude, Gerome?
My horse needs more henna!
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
So get ready!
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
You can find me in the club, bottle full of bub
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
Flip it and reverse it
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
Quick-change artist
Souvenirs from vacation
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Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
The greatest sacrifice
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Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
Ghostwood
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo I...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
French portrait inception
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
The penis is v. important in this one
Here is Marina Abramović’s Portrait with Scorpion (2005) We’re celebrating our...
The flower-breeding father of fashion photography
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
