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Impregnated two of his models, married one of them, painted from a wheelchair
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He's not instilling fear in any pheasants
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Married the model
Get your towels ready it's about to go down
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You can find me in the club, bottle full of bub
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Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
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Could really hold a grudge
I just want to do something personal
Gone too soon
He's convinced me now, that Benziger fellow
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Now the big daddy of sculpture, Rodin was originally kind of a loser
The greatest sacrifice
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Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
A man of many names and many loves
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Made in a cabin
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Morning in mid-Montmartre
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Killing me Softly
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On again off again fake
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Deep in thought in San Francisco
A rarity: deep thought in DC
Falsely accused
All the single ladies!
Little bronze people in agony
You've caught my soul!
The walls are falling on all of us
“Everything means nothing if I can’t have you…”
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Muse has Rodin by the junk
The geniuses of the Weather underground strike a blow against thought
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You don't need to be a scholar
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
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She's a man eater, make you work hard, make you spend hard
Age is just a number when it comes to boobs
A stylistic orgy
Don't look no no, don't touch no no
Group photo time!
Oriental harem tours with Ingres
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Anatomy sacrificed for beauty
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If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
One high-class whore
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Such a punchable face
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Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
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BFF's til the end
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You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
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Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
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This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
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The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
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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...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
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Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
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With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Trash to treasure
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One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
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This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
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Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
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Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
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...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
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To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Dude loved his dots
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
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Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
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This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
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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...
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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...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
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Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
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...
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“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
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,...
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The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
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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...
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There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
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...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
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...
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The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
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”...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
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...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
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...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
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...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
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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...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
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...
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...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
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...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
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...
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...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
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...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
