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Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Flora and Flattery
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In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
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The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Sorry PETA
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...
Hitler's jam
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Bet on black
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If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Act spontaneous!
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
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Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Planting seeds
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Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
Behind the Scenes at Arles
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Fighting the canvas
Let’s paint here, they won’t find us
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
A star is born
I want to paint it black
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
Very precious plaster
Vacation home art
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
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This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Once Punched a Skeleton
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
Possible peace portrait
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PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
As an art historian I often find myself correcting people’s misconceptions (a lot...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
