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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
"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
She's pretty... too pretty
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Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Made in a cabin
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Wearing a vest of many colors
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Chop, chop, chop
The American dream lives on
Mixing mediums
Buy now on The Met Store
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
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...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
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
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Portrait of Henry VIII of England by Hans Holbein the Younger Pronunciation: /cag-...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
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...
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
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Man of many hats
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
It all ended badly for Charles
Lookin' good for 140 years old
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Little known American heroine
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
The Ambassador Quintet
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
I can’t believe it’s not Peale
Blackening exercise
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
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...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
Dollar dollar bill y'all
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...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
He got very Close
The ‘Evel’ Kinevel of the art scene
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
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...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
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...
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...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
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...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
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...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
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...
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...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
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...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
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...
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 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...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
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...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
“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...
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...
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...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
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...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
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...
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...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
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...
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 (...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
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...
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...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned 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...
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...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
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...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
