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Ex-nun, harassed for painting without a license, official painter of Marie Antoinette
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Who is she?
When you look good, we look good (and we get paid)
I didn't say "Let them eat cake"
Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got
Before things got ugly life was very good
Voted most popular, class of 1795
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Before they hated each other's guts
French portrait inception
Another unsuccessful rebranding attempt for Marie-Antoinette
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
English people are snobs
Marie Antoinette's best friend....possibly with benefits
Frenemies
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Long names and titles
Prince Heinrich...so hot right now
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
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Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
A hotter mascot than the Pope
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
You wish you could be this cool
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A mama's girl
I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Not to be confused with Xena the Warrior Princess, Lucy Lawless.
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Horse on a treadmill
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
"Greatest French artist of all time" - Louis XIV
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Buy now on The Met Store
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
Not an itsy bitsy spider
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Conga line from hell
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
Ain't that a kick?
People should pay more attention to their walls
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Portrait of a penis?
More like Louise LOLer
Shia LeBeouf, is that you?
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Goin' to the chapel, gonna get married
Are you sure that’s all you’re selling?
Here is Marina Abramović’s Portrait with Scorpion (2005) We’re celebrating our...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
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...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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,...
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
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
Early morning, emotional promise
Home (not so) sweet home
Whodunnit??
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Live easels
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
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
Watch now
Damn, I look good
Build like the Egyptians
Advertise your god-complex
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
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
Stuff Rich People Own
One high-class whore
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Oh shit!
Sexism sucks
No days off
Go ahead and take a peek
Another nude, Gerome?
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
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Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
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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
There's no one quite like her
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
The past is female
So get ready!
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Shades of Black
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Great not just because it was produced by a woman
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Maman by Louise Bourgeois
Swirly girly
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Obsessed with calligraphy
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One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
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Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
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Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Loves ants
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
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Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
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“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...
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Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
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"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
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Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
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American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Yea, that's his real name
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Great beard, better art
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
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Classic cosplay
The art world’s very own Cruella De Vil
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
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
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
Exciting and scaring museums globally
Changing the world, one photo at a time
They go apeshit over inequality!
Exactly as cool as her name sounds
Loves a big salad
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
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Left the nunnery...
Plays the polka
Soft and scary
Like Midas, but different
The Obamas love him
The Great Deconstructor
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
Provocative shadows
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
