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All hail Andy Warhol!
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Businessman, con artist, hypochondriac, shooting victim, awesome
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
The Great Helmsman gets Warhol-ed
Well, what do you see?
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
Not Scarface but scarchest?
Double the sadness, none of the fun
The King is in the house
As bonafide as Dolly can get
The real Iron Lady
No crying in baseball
Not So Pop-y Anymore
Not Just Peanuts
What is the meaning of life?
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Warhol ate this stuff up
Hail Marilyn, full of pills
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Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
Cinnamon hair oil doesn’t fix battle crimes
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As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...
A star is born
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Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Brother nature
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Mao Tse-Tung No. 4 by Andy Warhol at the National Gallery of Australia...
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Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
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I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo I...
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Johnny Cash's favorite artwork
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There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
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Here is Marina Abramović’s Portrait with Scorpion (2005) We’re celebrating our...
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...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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,...
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The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
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That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Whodunnit??
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
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...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
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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
Damn, I look good
Build like the Egyptians
Advertise your god-complex
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
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
The Sartle office was abuzz with frivolity as we celebrated the release...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
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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...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Oh shit!
Sexism sucks
No days off
Go ahead and take a peek
Another nude, Gerome?
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
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Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Wearing a vest of many colors
I Spy: Lichtenstein edition
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
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Lovely sketch, sketchy love
The past is female
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
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Shades of Black
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Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
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We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
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Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
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As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
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Obsessed with calligraphy
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The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
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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...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Loves ants
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
“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...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
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Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
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The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
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Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
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Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
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
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Loves TV, hates men.
The Rembrandt of the video age
The better to hear you with, my dear
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
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
Classic cosplay
The art world’s very own Cruella De Vil
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
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
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
There's no one quite like her
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
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
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
Left the nunnery...
Plays the polka
Soft and scary
Like Midas, but different
The Obamas love him
The Great Deconstructor
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
A mama's girl
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
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
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
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
Hello Kitty on shrooms
Vomits rainbows
Genius from Korea
Turn on, tune in, drop out
Cutting racial commentary
Outsider turned insider
Got tired of brushes v quickly
Creepy art
He made geometry dramatic
OG Abstract Expressionist
His poop took down a power line in Berne
The man, the myth, the legend
Shoplifter, electroshock therapy survivor, proverbial everywoman
Crazy camel lady
Painter with a green brush
Steel mill is his studio
Likes to psychoanalyse viewers with his art
Italian bad boy. His shit is worth its weight in gold.
Glamourous...
Expat
He has a lot to say about his art and his art is all about him
Always on the Lookout for Technological Invention and Innovation in Film.
Could have also picked the name Judy Vagina
Does a surprisingly good Mona Lisa impression
Optical illusions and Kate Moss lookalikes
Queen of appropriation
Ain't no quilting granny
If Star Trek is your thing...
Didn't want to live in America anyway
A man of many names and one iconic mustache.
The sink guy, but not a plumber
Loves zoot suits
Competing with Mother Nature
The Black Atlantic
Ground Control to Major Tom
Not your average frontiersman
Favorite hangout? The desert.
The Inventor of the Snapshot
“Anything you do will be an abuse of somebody else’s aesthetics.”
Sol for president
Born to watch paint dry
Promoter, businessman, married a porn star more famous than him
Screamin' in Sweden (not really, he was Norwegian)
Copycat extraordinaire
The art world's Bono, but with better hair
Died in a plane crash for the sake of his art
Literally blew the whistle on art world elitism
Political radical with a cute mustache
Lord of Lights
Dainty art
Old school, but not in the cool way
Britain's most hated artist
The art world's thesaurus
She knows what she wants
Not a feel-good kind of guy
That creepy toddler artist
She's different
Has so many feelings
Chairs, man…
On the dot
Artistic progeny
Picasso fanboy
Impregnated two of his models, married one of them, painted from a wheelchair
Look Ma, no ear
Part monk, part playboy
Loves headless figures
Sadly, a member of the 27 club
Size matters...
Man Ray sounds more dangerous than Emmanuel Radnitzky
Possibly cut off van Gogh's ear
A good man in a messed up world
Stained canvases with gorgeous color
Jean du All Trades
Taste, hear, and smell these
A man of many names and many loves
“Art is swindle.”
Great fighter of censorship
Cuz he’s all about that place
Annoyingly talented
Painted guns, girls, and government figures.
Modernism’s Black voice.
He's dynamite
A Kodak family
An artist of war
I just want to do something personal
Probably banged your girlfriend
Blonde, good looking, Aryan, yet Hitler hated his art and therefore hated him
Cross dressing revolutionary
Narrowly escaped the Nazis
He got very Close
Painter of bony white women and possible child rapist
#2 to Picasso is still pretty good.
Itching for an etching
NEEEERRRD!
Banker's son, anti Semite, ended up wandering the streets of Paris blind and alone
Would rather throw spitballs than study
If only all sellouts followed his example
Pow!
Precocious
Paid the bills by selling satirical cartoons before becoming (in)famous off nudes.
19th Century Wolverine
Artist and friend of Van Gogh and Gauguin
Sea = Dancer
Professional forger of both Picassos and bank notes
Has a disease named after him
Weird Al's "favorite MC"
Part artist, part comrade
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The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
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Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
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Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Artist Exposes genitals in Paris Museum StuntPerformance Artist Sits in From of...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Take your facial hair from bizarre to brilliant with these mustaches! Pieter...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
