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Monkeys are the new roses
Pet Goals
It’s the circle of life and politics
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
The Blue House
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Most famous unibrow in art, cheated on her husband with Trotsky, loved Stalin
Breakups will make us do crazy things
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Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Frida showing off a menagerie, unibrow and 'stache
Socialism never looked this sexy
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Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
Promiscuous people have feelings too
Transforming pain into expression
Weirdest game of peek-a-boo
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
This self-portrait's cranked up to 11
Furreak on a leash
It's raining milk, hallelujah
Eat up!
Literal food porn
All dressed up and nowhere to go
Family portrait Kahlo-style
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Frida loved Trostky. Stalin killed Trosky. Frida loved Stalin. Wait, what!?!?
She had a flair for the dramatic 'til the bitter end
Before she changed her name...and her man
Not balloon animals
Understatement of the century
Kahlo family Christmas card
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
An argument against "better dead than red"
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
A good swattin’
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
de Los Cachuchas
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
All in the family
Frida, the drag edition
It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
Take your facial hair from bizarre to brilliant with these mustaches! Pieter...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
How many different ways can you say "monkey"
Too much monkey business
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Puff, puff, pass
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
All Children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once one grows up...
I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo I...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
Critics poo-poo him
Recognize this mysterious maven? Find the answer here or stand back a little to see...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
The lighting isn't doing him any favors
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
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Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
I am talented and successful
We love a hat moment
Wiiiiild wiiilllld horsesss (and scary hyenas)
Rembrandt’s first selfie on panel
Beyond Gauguin & evil
This little painting went “wee wee wee...”
Taken by her ex-lover and life-long friend
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
The twinkling lights of Paris start to show through
We're suckers for a guy in a suit
The Mad Masker
You won’t get a glimpse of the mustache
Snoozefest
Not accurate
Adolescent Metalpoint Master
Magic mirror on the wall
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Let it all hang out
A lot of self-reflection happens at the insane asylum
What filter is that?
Self-portrait with portrait in exchange for portrait
Paint with all seven fingers
No more drinkie
The spirit of Caesar
That other pandemic
Hats keep your head warm and help you look très mystérieuse
Look Ma, no ear!
I feel pretty, oh so pretty
That's not what he looks like
Pre-downward spiral
What’s coal got to do with it?
#MeToo circa 1600
Portrait-ception
“Hey, quit breathing down my neck!”
Selfie with a Straw Hat
Family portrait time!
A bit creepier than a friendship bracelet
Demons never looked so sexy
Marilyn Morimura
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Before they hated each other's guts
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
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The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
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Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Jesuit missionary work gone horribly wrong
Wandering souls
This room drove its owner insane
Depressed, not depressing
Planting the seed
90s and neon...so on trend
Don't turn the thermostat up too high
Get your hand out of your pants, Sollie!
Censorship makes us crabby
Gives new meaning to "eating out"
No one knows just how deep it goes
Making the most of fire and brimstone
Only men can see this one
As close to hurtling through space as most of us will get
Walk on their faces
Experience infinity in one minute
The sweetest of portraits
Revolution!
Here we goooo
Unmade, smelly and dirty.
Classic Hirst
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
Calling all cynical pessimists!
Finally, a female gaze
Claustrophobics beware
"I like that queasy feeling"
Someone wasn’t paying attention in Sunday School
Monument to a bromance
Not even a little bit
Singin’ in a ring
Epileptics beware
Pretty sure they are laughing at you, not with you
A victim of the urban housing crisis
Too school for cool
Could be an ad for a Life Alert commercial
Shia LeBeouf, is that you?
But especially vices
Netflix and chill...with Buddha
One depressing miscommunication
A walk on the beach
Fancy birthday presents
A sedimental work for a sentimental guy
Marching to the beat of her own drum
A stoner's dream
A techy tower
He barely tried
What do Henri Matisse and Ellen DeGeneres have in common?
The artworld goes to seed
201 spheres in a big circus tent
Where Superman meets Sylvia Plath
Bless your heart
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Literally *fire*
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Many of my reviews are based off of my experiences as a shih tzu skeptic, a middle...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
