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Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
More like sweating at noon
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Couldn't catch a break
We celebrate a lot of holidays centered around excess in this country; we...
No laurels here
Road trip for baby Jesus
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Walt Whitman was a fan
Back pain = youth leaving the body
Damn it Susan, let me get my pants on ok
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
Women digging graves?! Bury him, sis!
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
The Realist in the game
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via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Old maids reminiscing
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Lucas Cranach the Elder, who painted The Fountain of Youth in the 1500s must be...
Angelica takes a stab at combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly crude...
P-town Love
“I've been everywhere, man...”
A fun new series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
The Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
The Hangover (Suzanne Valadon) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at the Fogg Museum
S.O.S. Starification Object Series (Back) by Hannah Wilke at The Solomon R....
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Portrait of Captain Thomas Lee by Marcus Gheeraerts II at the Tate Britain
Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
Faulty Landscape (Paysage Fautif) by Marcel Duchamp at the Museum of Modern Art...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
Harlequin Head by Pablo Picasso
Reclining Nude by Suzanne Valadon
Diana and Actaeon by Francesco Albani
A Grotesque Old Woman by Quentin Matsys
Inn with Drunken Peasants (Boerendrinkpartij) by Adriaen Brouwer
Gabrielle d’Estrées and One of Her Sisters by Mystery Artist at the Musée du...
Nude Woman in a Red Armchair by Pablo Picasso
Two Friends by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
The Milky (chocolate) Way
“Viva os catadores!"
I am NOT Whistler’s mother
Back Seat Dodge ‘38 by Edward Kienholz at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Upsetting
Marilyn Morimura
Don't ask him to make copies
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Or do worry, I'm a sign, not a cop
One: Number 31, 1950 by Jackson Pollock at the Museum of Modern Art
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
Criticizing the critics
In addition to briefing Sandi on our progress, we discussed weighty matters of art...
Your capitalism is showing
As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
So we beat on, boats against the current
Making fun of puritanical ideals
I don’t want no wants
Big empire, bigger ego
No need to fear when sleep is here
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
OUCH
When a landscape artist is commissioned to paint a religious scene
Designing for the Soviet Woman
End of Days Dudes
Haunted horse
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Get ready for the waterworks
Dead babies
No relation to the steak
The sun'll come out
The hills are alive
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Failure to sell
Not for acrophobes
A great painter's quest away from painting
It’s electric!
It's gonna blow!
Jesus has had enough!
A spiritual about-face
(You Drive Me) Crazy
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Ghostwood
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
That's Master Richard to you!
Everyone has a goth phase
All it’s missing is a cup of tea
Very precious plaster
Vacation home art
Atomic ghosts
Gothic tipi?
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
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March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Float like a butterfly, sting like Aeneas
He's wicked...wicked hot
Portrait of the tortured artist before he became a cliché
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
COTTON EYED JOE
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
An atheist makes a chapel where you’re NOT allowed to pray
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...