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Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
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Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Oh say can you see
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
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...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Made in a cabin
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Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Wearing a vest of many colors
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
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Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
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Careful, might make you howl!
It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
It’s nice to see, however, that his latest project (the “Journel (sic) of...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Never forget
Hippest place in Brighton
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Considerable collections
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Those Swiss have got it all!
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
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Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
All 'bout that bass, 'bout that bass, no treble
Created by Sister Suffragette
Embrace your inner underdog and recreate Rocky Balboa's run to the top!
Get Smart! See art!
It's THE Met
MOMA knows everything goes better with Bacon!
Quality, not quantity
Motor city
Good wine and interesting art
Two museums in one
One of the wealthiest museums in America
Only place that call the Dutch Masters the "North Dutch school"
Named after a beer maker
Will somebody please think of the children??
