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The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Frida Kahlo called him her "Frog Prince"
Sexy Spaniard, missing bones
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
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Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Not a one trick pony
Fits 423 hospital beds
Censorship makes us crabby
"My swamp picture"
Not for during rush hour
Multi-use materials
Colossally romantic
So you think you have a crazy ex?
All Children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once one grows up...
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo I...
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
When men were muscley, women were soft, and there were only four continents
So this is why they call them blueprints
There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
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Here is Marina Abramović’s Portrait with Scorpion (2005) We’re celebrating our...
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
The Young Bull by Paulus Potter at the MauritshuisLike a classic Taurus, I’m a bit...
The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
Happy birthday to our well-balanced Libras! Some would say the following artists...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
Communism speaks at the Pacific Stock Exchange
Velázquez inceptioned this painting
The Pope doesn't want you to see this booty
Flowers are heavy
Wrapped in red
It’s getting hot in Seville
Friends with all the superstars
Kitchen Scene, part 1
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Not for acrophobes
Whodunnit??
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Celebration of America or communism?
Before she changed her name...and her man
Too little too late!
Surprise face!
Anything for the king
Reflecting on a revolution
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Everyone has a goth phase
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Bad beezy
More than just a teacher’s pet.
Rocking the five-head
So you want to be a Cubist?
A long ride for a free meal
A faceless painting surrounded by celebrities
Juana’s mom has got it going on
Habsburgs on the Hunt
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Stone Age sisters doin’ it for themselves
Like, Totally Rad Art Dude
An ancient dick pic
Work of hot air
Portraits of Belleville
Kim K. has nothing on Courbet
Watch now
Damn, I look good
Build like the Egyptians
Advertise your god-complex
Not allowed to be political
I come bearing gifts of flowers and revolution
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
Pronunciation: /ˌkaləˈpijēən/
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Real Housewives of Paris
He's a little young for fetish play
Pretty but kind of boring
*deep existential sigh*
Bringing the inside out
The only good reason to join a cult
These serpents made hiss-tory
Banned for a while
If at first you don’t succeed...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
Oh shit!
Sexism sucks
No days off
Go ahead and take a peek
Another nude, Gerome?
Take your facial hair from bizarre to brilliant with these mustaches! Pieter...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Wearing a vest of many colors
I Spy: Lichtenstein edition
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
The past is female
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
Shades of Black
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
Obsessed with calligraphy
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
Many of my reviews are based off of my experiences as a shih tzu skeptic, a middle...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Loves ants
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
Probably banged your girlfriend
Yea, that's his real name
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Great beard, better art
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Loves TV, hates men.
The Rembrandt of the video age
The better to hear you with, my dear
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
You think you know, but you have no idea.
Critics call him “Modernism’s Evel Knievel.”
Bodhisattva of the art world
Extreme performance artist
Renaissance woman
A feast for the senses
Classic cosplay
