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Playing dress up
No bra days are the best days
Odalisque with Red Culottes by Henri Matisse
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Make it green! Make it blue! Make it red!
Teacher of artists
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Boucher's wife models as a sex slave in training, discuss
One Who Is Talented
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Oh Banksy… I am not your biggest fan. Look, I don’t know what graffiti is...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Buy now on Amazon
Get up, stand up. stand up for your right
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Watch now
Four Rothkos, One Bench
He married a rich model
A good man in a messed up world
Armchair tourism pays off
Save the horses!
Copying can be a legitimate career choice sometimes
Sgt. of Art
Middle fingers all around
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
The ‘Evel’ Kinevel of the art scene
It's like a painting, see?
A wandering painter
Briggsy
Click here to find God!
Where's that dam photo?
A stylistic orgy
Oriental harem tours with Ingres
Has a disease named after him
Would rather throw spitballs than study
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
What do Henri Matisse and Ellen DeGeneres have in common?
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
As an art historian I often find myself correcting people’s misconceptions (a lot...
A Bieber tattoo
Look at art a little longer
Did you say REDRUM?
On the outside looking in
Loved the countryside, and died of lyme disease contracted in the countryside
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
One of the few paintings Vincent ever sold
Art thieves caught red handed
As advertised
It really ties the room together
When your make-up artist at Sephora is secretly an expressionist
Good riddance to the haterz...and the Pharaoh
Serious hat envy
Give up the boot
Something here looks off
Drawn to the dark side
Should have been called "nude mistress in a red chair"
Slightly psychedelic
Urban anxiety aplenty
Telekinesis never sounded so good
The pitfalls of trying to sell stolen art
Everybody dance now
Stalin hated it!
Before Freddy Krueger there were still things that went bump in the night
Neato nature
Guy about to invent writing: oh, you haven't heard?
There's no such thing as bad publicity
Mother Nature looks good in plaid
God Bless America
Rage-inducing abstraction
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Sibling rivalry
Savage fashion
Those have got to be implants
Shapes that make sculpture out of thin air
Guggenheim hooked it UP
Grab a mai-tai
Do the thing! Win the sports!
Don’t be so naive
God save the Queen!
Float like a butterfly, threads like an OG
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
Nude Woman in a Red Armchair by Pablo Picasso
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
When you're unhappy and you know it don't clap your hands
Big henry
Style changes to depict a living nightmare
Not balloon animals
It’s, like, a metaphor, man
A tender moment
“You’re blocking my light”
Iconic... apparently
Little pig's tail
Rock the casbah!
Squares are people too
It's almost like you're there
Rebel in pantaloons
Now you see me...
Big Red by Alexander Calder at the San Jose Museum of Art
Nothing like a ten-some to tempt a saint
Green ladies are always the nicest
Not from a fat chicken, just a big boned one
Before Facebook event pages, you had to get creative
Didn't turn out great, as you might guess
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy
Harsher on racists than Trump
A political pain in the ass
Taking the sun-spot in a lions’ den
Lit by divinity
Praying to have faith
So this is why they call them blueprints
The right to bear arms?
Secret lives of gay prostitutes
1,2,3 Kick!
Mr. Cool always gets invited to the party
Daddy's little girl grows up
Yvette herself thought it a "monstrosity"
Once a good boy, always a good boy
Babe, I’m sorry I’m late
Œdipus starts some drama
Just some good ol’ fashioned Milton fanfiction
When will my reflection show who I am inside
Heavenly view
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
This woman has attitude, an appetite, and boy can she dance!
Health care for sex workers
Skating on thick ice
Those who can't do, paint
A quiet day at the brothel
Smart girls don't buy sight unseen
Imitation is the sincerest form of brown-nosing
Rip van drinkle
Sacred moment made earthly and intimate
A bargain at twice the price
I’ll never understand humans
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Portrait of Henry VIII of England by Hans Holbein the Younger Pronunciation: /cag-...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Explosive high kicks
Sexy stocking stuffers
Spot all the artist’s besties
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Two Friends by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
Don't call it a comeback
All it’s missing is a cup of tea
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly crude...
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
Angelica takes a stab at combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
The Hangover (Suzanne Valadon) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at the Fogg Museum
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...
Even firecrackers run out of energy eventually
All Children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once one grows up...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo I...
Clueless has become as classically vintage as Cher’s 1972 columns with traces of...
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Artist and friend of Van Gogh and Gauguin
Puppy painter extraordinaire
Pixar’s newest feature film Inside Out has been out in theaters for less than a...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Hey, I’m Maya! I started interning at Sartle a little over a month ago along with...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Not a nature guy
Could paint a grain elevator and make it pretty
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Jesuit missionary work gone horribly wrong
Wandering souls
This room drove its owner insane
Depressed, not depressing
Planting the seed
90s and neon...so on trend
Don't turn the thermostat up too high
Get your hand out of your pants, Sollie!
Censorship makes us crabby
Gives new meaning to "eating out"
No one knows just how deep it goes
Making the most of fire and brimstone
Only men can see this one
As close to hurtling through space as most of us will get
Walk on their faces
Experience infinity in one minute
The sweetest of portraits
Revolution!
Here we goooo
Unmade, smelly and dirty.
Classic Hirst
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
Calling all cynical pessimists!
Finally, a female gaze
Claustrophobics beware
"I like that queasy feeling"
Someone wasn’t paying attention in Sunday School
Monument to a bromance
Not even a little bit
Singin’ in a ring
Epileptics beware
Pretty sure they are laughing at you, not with you
A victim of the urban housing crisis
Too school for cool
Could be an ad for a Life Alert commercial
Shia LeBeouf, is that you?
But especially vices
Netflix and chill...with Buddha
One depressing miscommunication
A walk on the beach
Fancy birthday presents
A sedimental work for a sentimental guy
Marching to the beat of her own drum
A stoner's dream
A techy tower
He barely tried
The artworld goes to seed
201 spheres in a big circus tent
Where Superman meets Sylvia Plath
Bless your heart
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...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Many of my reviews are based off of my experiences as a shih tzu skeptic, a middle...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
With Christmas just around the corner, we’ve decided to take a closer look at five...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Cross dressing revolutionary
Possibly cut off van Gogh's ear
Señor Sticky Fingers
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Literally *fire*
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
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...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
