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Look Ma, no ear
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
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Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Made in a cabin
Wearing a vest of many colors
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
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As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Bottoms up!
You'll have to pry it out of my cold dead hands!
Comes with a scuffed floor
Keep ya from going nutty
She loves me… She loves me not…
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Where van Gogh met his end
Who's ugly now?
One of the few paintings Vincent ever sold
You've probably seen this everywhere
This is where the sunflowers got painted
Whoa there, Betsy!
The twinkling lights of Paris start to show through
Mixing dots and stripes?
Where the magic happens
Asylum views
Murder, they wrote
The poor artist’s guide to making a trustfund baby
Auditioned but wasn't cast in the Van Gogh movie
Crows before you know
Eating oil paint in Saint-Rémy
Sources say it was cold there
Contains gluten
Once upon a time. . .
View from inside
Vincent's future?
Two scoops of red hyacinths
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Up in flames
Think like Socrates, groom beard like Dostoyevsky
A lot of self-reflection happens at the insane asylum
Brittany hasn’t got anything on van Gogh.
Nasty storm
a sweet escape
My best hat yet
Best Frenemies and Heartbreak
Van Gogh’s Strange Addiction
Used to patch a chicken coop
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Van Gogh's teachers did not like his work
Hats keep your head warm and help you look très mystérieuse
Look Ma, no ear!
The other Starry Night
What’s coal got to do with it?
Behind the Scenes at Arles
Where do we hang this?
Far-out fruit
Let’s go swimming in the wheat field
Selfie with a Straw Hat
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
A bit creepier than a friendship bracelet
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
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You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Vase with 12 Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh at the Neue Pinakothek
Sunset at Montmajour by Vincent van Gogh Pronunciation: /tro͞oˈvī/ Lauren helps...
This week we start with a classic: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, housed at...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
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...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
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,...
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
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...
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
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...
Angelica takes a stab at combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
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...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
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...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
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...
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
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...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
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,...
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...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
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
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
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...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
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...
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...
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...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
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...
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...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
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...
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...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
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...
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...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
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...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
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...
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...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
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...
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...
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...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
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...
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...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
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...
