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Kim Jon Un reminded us this week that some of the hallowed traditions of evil...
Wet blanket
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
This is not a cheer-ocracy
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
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Child prodigy, charming, sophisticated. Like Renoir, impregnated two girls, married one
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Oh say can you see
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Turns out Katy Perry contracts out her sharks. We found Left Shark doing its best...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Stress-free
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
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
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Well, he took it better than Captain Ahab
Richie Rich
This is an apology portrait.
paint me like one of your founding fathers
Scene so nice he painted it thrice
There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Matthew 19:21
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Happy birthday to our well-balanced Libras! Some would say the following artists...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
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Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
Here is Marina Abramović’s Portrait with Scorpion (2005) We’re celebrating our...
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...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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,...
Too turnt
Paul was a bit of a horndog
Not all temptations are equally tempting
A really, really bad trip
Sexy kinda
Sh*t’s Escalating...
“I am so down to earth”
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Total poser
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Whodunnit??
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Nothing like a ten-some to tempt a saint
T for Tony
Everybody's sleeping with everybody
The Powder of Sympathy
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Never forget
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
No problem, Señor Diablo
Jesus butts in on the devil's business
She's pretty... too pretty
Ambassador extraordinaire
Stifled with a strange perfume of horns
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
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
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Not every rose has its thorn, apparently
Real housewives of 1636
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
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
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Oh shit!
Sexism sucks
No days off
Go ahead and take a peek
Another nude, Gerome?
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
