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Look Ma, no ear
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
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Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
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“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
All Vinny, all the time
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…
There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
Where van Gogh met his end
Who's ugly now?
One of the few paintings Vincent ever sold
You've probably seen this everywhere
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
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
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Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
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
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
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
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
A bit creepier than a friendship bracelet
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Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Sunset at Montmajour by Vincent van Gogh Pronunciation: /tro͞oˈvī/ Lauren helps...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
This week we start with a classic: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, housed at...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
Think twice before your next wax
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Vase with 12 Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh at the Neue Pinakothek
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Is that a sword in your pocket?
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
Paid the bills by selling satirical cartoons before becoming (in)famous off nudes.
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
All Children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once one grows up...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo I...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
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
Strange combination of old masters, modern art, and an in-house art video production department
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Built by momma van den Bergh for her baby boy
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
We don't look good until you look good
Here is Marina Abramović’s Portrait with Scorpion (2005) We’re celebrating our...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
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...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
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...
Whodunnit??
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Angelica takes a stab at combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
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
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Damn, I look good
Build like the Egyptians
Advertise your god-complex
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Rainbow colored wings = happyness
We're all going streaking!
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
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
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Too turnt
Not pregnant, just well dressed
Most stolen work of art ever!
Looks huge, is actually tiny
Sexy kinda
“I am so down to earth”
Not a creepy guy at all…
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?
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Channeling Van Wilder in 1538
Hatscarves rule
Check out that window
Known as "the Little Magician"
Muses above your head
Everybody's sleeping with everybody
The Powder of Sympathy
Wearing a vest of many colors
I Spy: Lichtenstein edition
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Sartle's patron god...the god of wise-assery
It all ended badly for Charles
It's good to be bad
Beheadings and fine fashion are not mutually exclusive
They both cleaned up nicely, considering...
Get ready for the waterworks
She's pretty... too pretty
Ambassador extraordinaire
Stifled with a strange perfume of horns
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
The past is female
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Rip van drinkle
Saint Selfie
Shades of Black
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
Not every rose has its thorn, apparently
Real housewives of 1636
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
The abnormally happy couple
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
For one BIG garden
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Obsessed with calligraphy
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
An enigma. All we really have are his utterly bizarre and awesome paintings
Owed money all over town
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Amsterdam gothic
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
