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The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
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...
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From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
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...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Oh say can you see
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
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Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
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The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Made in a cabin
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Wearing a vest of many colors
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
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Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Sorry PETA
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
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The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Hitler's jam
Cablah-blah-blah
Bet on black
Never forget
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
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In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
Act spontaneous!
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Planting seeds
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
Behind the Scenes at Arles
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
Fighting the canvas
Let’s paint here, they won’t find us
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Careful, might make you howl!
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
A star is born
I want to paint it black
It’s nice to see, however, that his latest project (the “Journel (sic) of...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
Very precious plaster
Vacation home art
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...
Watch now
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Take that Uncle Sam!
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Possible peace portrait
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
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...
