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The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
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Probably banged your girlfriend
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Not not the kraken
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Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Not your typical odalisque
Stay in the grid
Who needs friends when you have horses?
Why so bleu?
Not sad, just blue
Epitome of feeling blue
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Target practice for Hitler's airforce
Imma start some drama
Forget tiny, this is world’s oddest violin
Paint-ception
The one that got away
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Let's hope this does not go with a giant diaper
Steamrolled Smurf
As advertised
A worrisome thing
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Picasso does Mary Cassatt
Up in smoke!
Even cassanovas can get depressed
The legend herself
Hello darkness (Casagemas), Picasso's old friend
The family that circuses together stays together
Three-headed musician = daddy issues
Right before Cubism went off the rails
Idyllic villas, an escape
Look at that cock
Mirror mirror on the wall
Prussian Blue for your dead mate
Who needs shirts?
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Delacroix’s Arab culture fetish
The Maine Adventure
Hey, Sista Sista
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Stolen and recovered in no time at all
Oh so sad
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Squares are people too
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At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Should have been called "nude mistress in a red chair"
Scary or sexy?
Beer goggles gone wrong
Where he got his start
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Mother Nature looks good in plaid
God Bless America
Get your mind outta the gutter!
Rage-inducing abstraction
Blue, silver, and a whole lotta hate
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
This room drove its owner insane
A bit of a reach...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
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One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Corridor Pin, Blue by Claes Oldenburg
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Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
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It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
I had a hearty laugh watching Toy Story some 20 years later and finally getting...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Harlequin Head by Pablo Picasso
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Nude Woman in a Red Armchair by Pablo Picasso
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Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
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What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
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Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
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Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
All Children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once one grows up...
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Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
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Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
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At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
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May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
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Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
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Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
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Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
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The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
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American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
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Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
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Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
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This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
