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By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
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When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
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Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
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The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
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Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
A good swattin’
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
We dont need no education
Mining doesn’t cause death
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
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“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
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Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
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Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
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All 'bout that bass, 'bout that bass, no treble
Created by Sister Suffragette
Embrace your inner underdog and recreate Rocky Balboa's run to the top!
Get Smart! See art!
It's THE Met
MOMA knows everything goes better with Bacon!
Quality, not quantity
Motor city
Good wine and interesting art
Two museums in one
One of the wealthiest museums in America
Only place that call the Dutch Masters the "North Dutch school"
Named after a beer maker
Will somebody please think of the children??
Put a bird on it
A taste of Asia in the Tenderloin
Sweet Home Alabama
Cooler than an Orange Julius
In the Athens of Australia
It's free, not cheap
I would walk 500 miles...
It's hammer time
Yee-haw
Probably the first museum to use guns as performance art
This museum is worth A-GO
Just keeps getting bigger
Joe Biden likes to come here (probably)
New Jersey gem
A capital collection in the capital of Ohio
It's pronounced Woo-stah
It's all about that space
Not blan(d) at all
Welcome to the jungle
Mo Money, Mo Museums
Get High on art here
Lots of art in the heartland
Awesome, free, big-city museum
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
A gift to the Nation
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
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rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
USA's very first art school and museum
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Created as part of the New Deal
Enjoy art in an architectural iceburg
One of the oldest public art museums in America
Has a cool grand staircase
Who run the world? Girls!
Brand spankin' new!
Don't get dizzy walking around this circular museum
Has a lot of money to throw around
Abraham Lincoln had his inaugural ball here
Figure out the way to San Jose...ASAP!
Throw another cutting edge exhibit on the barbie...?
2 rich guys, a museum, and a wing place
Happy wife happy life!
Great art in the windy city
Started by a navy man
Everything's bigger in Texas
Possibly haunted
Meet me in St. Louis, Louis!
Fits 423 hospital beds
Art on the walls and in the toilets
The first of its kind
Largest collection of British art outside the UK
When the mistress gets bored, build a museum
Free museums for the win
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
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You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Hippest place in Brighton
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Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
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One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Saved in times of war
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Crazy architecture and a rocking view
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
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In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
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Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
Popular place to film when you're trying to prove the movie is actually in LA
Fort Worth a trip
Expanded in 2016!
Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows
Underground in the City of Angels
Giant robot threatens cafe-goers. Dine at your own risk!
Yes...they "borrowed" the art
Poop in style while you enjoy art
Cheers to the gov'na!
Not for during rush hour
The first permanent art gallery in New Zealand!
Not made of crystals
Way better than the Old Britain museum
Come one, come all
Careful, might make you howl!
Former tobacco plantation
Built by Bernini and Borromini
SO. MUCH. JEWELRY.
Just a little touch of star quality
For an art school, they sure have a lotta cash
Brought to you by your favorite skin cream
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
Big Red by Alexander Calder at the San Jose Museum of Art
(German) Pronunciation: Bahk-fye-fen-geh-see-ckt
Leap Into the Void by Yves Klein at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
Maman by Louise Bourgeois
Sunset at Montmajour by Vincent van Gogh Pronunciation: /tro͞oˈvī/ Lauren helps...
Sleeping Venus by Eustache Le Sueur
Corridor Pin, Blue by Claes Oldenburg
Woman Dressed as a Vestal Virgin by Angelica Kauffman
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat
Madame X by John Singer Sargent
Negev by Magdalena Abakanowicz at The Israel Museum
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
Portrait of Henry VIII of England by Hans Holbein the Younger Pronunciation: /cag-...
The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
Mao Tse-Tung No. 4 by Andy Warhol at the National Gallery of Australia...
Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child by Bronzino at the Uffizi...
Odalisque with Red Culottes by Henri Matisse
Vase with 12 Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh at the Neue Pinakothek
A Little Taste Outside of Love by Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Museum
Pronunciation: /ˌkaləˈpijēən/
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Considerable collections
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Their first curator added much of his own work
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Not just a bunch of books
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
