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Gustav Klimt-inspired tattoos are like porn - I know one when I see it....
All that glitters is probably something by Gustav Klimt
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Making out in the most beautiful way
Touched for the very first time
Rocka- bye, baby!
The circle of life
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$135 Million, like a drop in a bucket
She was a trendsetter
Small but mighty
Kim K. has nothing on Courbet
No one paints like Gustave
Minor master, stuntin' on haters
Favorite hangout? The desert.
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Illustrator extraordinaire
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Responsible for the most famous vagina painting in the world
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The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
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A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
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Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
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I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo I...
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There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
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...
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Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
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Impressive powers of levitation
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Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
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Whodunnit??
Graphic or 'libertine'?
Art is the pits
Just another one of Courbet's tricks
22 ft long and 6 ft under
Gustave, the babysitter of the impressionists.
It's a hard knock life for the urban proletariat
Bow to the sun god
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The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Wanna thank your mother for a butt like that
Modernist Fantasia
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Major bro code violation
Bad weather, good painting
Sounds like salami
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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
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Damn, I look good
Build like the Egyptians
Advertise your god-complex
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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
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Party time! Excellent!
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Oh shit!
Sexism sucks
No days off
Go ahead and take a peek
Another nude, Gerome?
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Wearing a vest of many colors
I Spy: Lichtenstein edition
Ditch the myth, keep the sex
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via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
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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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Loves ants
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Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
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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
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
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
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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
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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
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
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Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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
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
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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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...
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The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
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By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
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“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
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Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
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At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
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This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
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One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
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Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
