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Too cool for New Zealand
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Red is the coldest color
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
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Half of a dynamic duo
Disaster art or disaster artist?
Could paint a grain elevator and make it pretty
A man of many media
The less popular American Impressionist
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
"Greatest French artist of all time" - Louis XIV
He bled red, white and blue
Hawaiian love story
The Obnoxious Renaissance Man
The cowboy artist
Fountains of life
Zebulon's son
Late bloomer
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
It’s exactly what it sounds like
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
A real O.G.
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Chop, chop, chop
The American dream lives on
Mixing mediums
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
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Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Be seated
Crackpot
Topsy turvy
The King of a flattering angle
Farm like an Egyptian
Brancusi stands out
Like the Parthenon, but with pollution
What do you see?
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
We want the Funk
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
People should pay more attention to their walls
Rollin' outta battle looking fly
Inhale this and you're gonna need a hail mary
“I am so down to earth”
"Revolution 9" b-side
Bringing the inside out
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
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...
What'd your boyfriend ever give you?
What’s more alarming: an avalanche or climate change?
P-town Love
Go ahead and take a peek
Another unsuccessful rebranding attempt for Marie-Antoinette
Pre-bullets in the neck
It all ended badly for Charles
Lookin' good for 140 years old
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Little known American heroine
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
The Ambassador Quintet
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
I can’t believe it’s not Peale
Blackening exercise
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Dollar dollar bill y'all
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Odalisque with Red Culottes by Henri Matisse
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
He got very Close
The ‘Evel’ Kinevel of the art scene
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Yep, the silent smile says it all. Please enjoy Mona Lisa Monday #2: The Pulp-a...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
How to spot Lauren in the crowd? She’ll have a pair of Sartle glasses on her head...
Buried his book of poetry with his wife, then exhumed the book for publication
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
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...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
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,...
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
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,...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
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”...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
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...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
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...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
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...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
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...
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...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
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...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
