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This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
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Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Let your freak flag fly
Man of mystery
Portraitist of unfortunate accuracy
John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Should have stayed in the corn business
Arrested as an American spy in Britain during the Revolutionary War
"Talent is cheap"
Fancy pornographer
A man of many names and one iconic mustache.
Pretty fly for a (Louisiana) white guy
Everyman painter
Burr's best bud
All the glee of youngsters
Rockstar of the high court
Art as political protest
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Ladies Man
Wet blanket
easy, breezy, beautiful
Popular amongst those who frequent Renaissance Faires.
honestly pretty vanilla
Hated Picasso
Like a nocturnal Canaletto
Conversion artist
It's His Majesty's handyman, at your service
Bird-brained businessman. Eagle-eyed artist.
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
His family reluctantly accepted his painter lifestyle
Treasures around every corner
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Poop in style while you enjoy art
Come one, come all
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
paint me like one of your founding fathers
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...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Cooler than cool
Did you fail geography?
Dionysus' groupies
Clearly not a hobo
Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot
Miscreants of Mammon
Does this wax cast make my thigh look fat?
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
If you were catholic and rich in the 1600's you wanted to join this club and give them art
Kirsten Dunst copied this
A hairy art critic
Men brought down by a strap
Where will you be when the plague hits?
Do I make you horny baa-baa?
Caused a stir after its unveiling because of all the hot leg action.
Country bliss you can still visit... for now.
His teeth and ambitions are bared
Henry VIII's first born, what a disappointment
Lady Jane
It really went downhill from there
Snapshot of an elusive charmer.
Achey heart, breaky back
The ten-dollar Founding Father
You may recognize him from high school English class
Ahoy, Cap'n!
Notorious B.G.M. (Boy Genius Millais)
A painter's lost dream on antiquity
Looking smug
Hellion with heart
The muse of Capri
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Go at your own risk
Who doesn't love a good old-fashioned decapitation?
Kindred spirits
Stress-free
Award for most expressive horses
You won’t get a glimpse of the mustache
Oooh, see that girl! Watch that scene! Dig in the Dancing Queeeeeeeeeeeeen!
But wait... there’s more!
Witch, please
The sallow, mustached face of imperialism
Welcome home, honey...
Has nothing to do with onions
Peace for everyone
Self love taken too far
These dresses aren't hiding anything
Heavy-handed relief
See ya later, Alligator
Crack open a cold one
Women digging graves?! Bury him, sis!
Just a whale dung kind of day
Renew the song she is singing
Six candles
Queen of masques unmasked
Identity crisis
Where have we seen this lady before?
Well, he took it better than Captain Ahab
Richie Rich
Figurative expressionism fit for the POTUS
This is an apology portrait.
Too school for cool
A political pain in the ass
Cleaning dramaaa
Named after a coded slave song
A divine feminine unwavering
Neckties, pianos, and outcasts
You talkin’ to me?
An early abstract portrait
Baby before the Baptist
Away, as in a trance
No days off
Scene so nice he painted it thrice
The sexy doctor is IN
Wait 'til you get a load of this guy
Lending the Communist Party a hand
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Beheadings and fine fashion are not mutually exclusive
#MILF
Accidental POTUS
Telekinesis never sounded so good
aka "Darnation, Silly, Silly, Pose"
Extraordinary People in Such Ordinary Circumstances
No relation to the steak
Stylish long before Gossip Girl
Meddlesome Millie
Feasting feathered friends
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Lambs can be kept as pets, who knew?
Girl next door
Our founding mother
When the guilt just keeps on coming.
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Choo choo twain
Don’t mansplain!
Let’s paint here, they won’t find us
A bargain at twice the price
Friend of the fam
Total poser
Madame X by John Singer Sargent
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Criticizing the critics
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Turns out Katy Perry contracts out her sharks. We found Left Shark doing its best...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
When Doves Cry
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Like characters in a Henry James novel
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Boy, did he know how to paint a figure
Plaster king
Beyoncé is no stranger to art history references as seen in her Formation video or...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
So get ready!
Man of many hats
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Primary artistic medium is Snapchat
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Say that name five times fast.
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
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...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
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...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
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...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
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...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
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...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
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...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
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...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
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...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
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...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
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...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
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...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
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...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
