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Confused birds with humans and hung out at insane asylums
Hitler hated him
Movies would have you believe he could pierce the hell out of an ear
Liked polygamy and a nice chianti
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Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Antichrist got nuthin' on this
Astrologically incorrect
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Made in a cabin
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Giant Swastika on the back
Who caught Vermeer in the act?
Got milk?
Sew talented
Wearing a vest of many colors
A really, really bad trip
What was he on, and where can we get some?
Urban angst
Horse Girl finds her Dream Man
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
A little date-rapey for our taste
Before Google Maps, there was Vermeer
How long do I have to hold this pose?
Hitler's jam
Stolen for the nicest reasons
A lady with an intellectual life... shocking!
No teardrops on this guitar
All about the yellow jacket
Sleepin' on the job
To kill a nightingale
Loneliness in the city
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Getting ready to jam
Scarlett Johansson reallllly liked getting her ear pierced
Ssshhhhh…be vewy vewy quiet, I’m weighing my gold!
Girl, your calluses are out of control!
She's so not into you
Prostitute or Prosti-Cute?
Girl with a pearl earring's lesser known cousin
Also a Girl with a Pearl Earring. But not that one
Serious hat envy
Here comes “Wonderwall”
The hills are alive
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Sister, Sister: Bible Edition
Can we get some privacy, please
Searching for the trace of a trace
Lyrical ablutions
Wait 'til you get a load of this guy
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
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 Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Gone are the good, old days of steamy letters
Couldn't have been a grocery list
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Happy birthday to our well-balanced Libras! Some would say the following artists...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Here is Marina Abramović’s Portrait with Scorpion (2005) We’re celebrating our...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
The original queen of photomontage
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Professor Painting right here
Drawn to the dark side
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
America’s Next Top Model is back, y’all! Ok, it never really went...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
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...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
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...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Go at your own risk
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
