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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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If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
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Oh say can you see
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If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
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Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Made in a cabin
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...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Wearing a vest of many colors
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Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
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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...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
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...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
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I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
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Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Sorry PETA
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We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
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When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Hitler's jam
Cablah-blah-blah
Bet on black
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
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July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
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...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Never forget
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...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
“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...
Act spontaneous!
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
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...
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...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
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...
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...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Planting seeds
*** 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...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
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...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
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...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
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...
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...
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
Behind the Scenes at Arles
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
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...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
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...
Fighting the canvas
Let’s paint here, they won’t find us
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
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,...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
A star is born
I want to paint it black
Careful, might make you howl!
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
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...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
It’s nice to see, however, that his latest project (the “Journel (sic) of...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
Very precious plaster
Vacation home art
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
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...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Watch now
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Take that Uncle Sam!
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
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...
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...
Possible peace portrait
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...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Hippest place in Brighton
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Those Swiss have got it all!
Considerable collections
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Commemorating the Holocaust
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
If anything, visit for the Isenheim Altarpiece
The best backdrop President Obama ever had
Diabeetus
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
Shown here with the tragically named baby North. Just kidding, no we haven’t! Kanye...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Doctor Who is here a lot
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
