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Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
An argument against "better dead than red"
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Mining doesn’t cause death
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
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Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
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It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
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
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
A gift to the Nation
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
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...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
USA's very first art school and museum
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
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
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Hippest place in Brighton
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Saved in times of war
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Crazy architecture and a rocking view
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
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Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
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Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
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Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
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
Former tobacco plantation
Built by Bernini and Borromini
SO. MUCH. JEWELRY.
Just a little touch of star quality
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
Careful, might make you howl!
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,...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
For an art school, they sure have a lotta cash
Brought to you by your favorite skin cream
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...
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/
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Considerable collections
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Their first curator added much of his own work
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Not just a bunch of books
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
The setting for Kubrick's next film
Those Swiss have got it all!
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
The Latin LACMA
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth at the Museum of Modern Art
Can you spot the fakes?
