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Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Just another naked lady
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Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Big Daddy of it all
His poop took down a power line in Berne
Wore a spiky helmet, just like Bismarck
Not a sports guy
Britain's most hated artist
Wanderlust for Western Canada
Boho Chic
On the dot
Rich diplomat/artist, loved fleshy girls, married a 16 year old when he was 53
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Rub elbows with Hollywood's elite
Drama, drama, drama
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Made in a cabin
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Possibly cut off van Gogh's ear
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Wearing a vest of many colors
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Do what you're good at
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Witness her
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
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,...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Cezanne's bad boy phase
Between the sheets
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
When you're the god of wine you get to drink from a huge glass
See you at poker night
Have a holly jolly Christmas
Swim anyone?
Bluebird singing
To catch a predator
Phew, that was close.
Whoops He Pinned it Again
How you like them apples?
Weird science
Modern dance mama
Let's Get Ready to Rumble!
Beyond Gauguin & evil
Jesus got jaundice
Penny for her thoughts
Cavorting with prostitutes in Arles
Beheadings in the Pacific
The First Date
A carnival for the kids
"Fish are friends, not food"
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Eat first, sex later
Delete the bits about rape and incest, and this could be a story out of Harry Potter
Can "Jacked Renaissance Babies" become a thing?
Three graces are better than one
Paul was a bit of a horndog
Listen to your girlfriend. Especially if she's magic.
Art thieves caught red handed
It came back positive
Teaching aide
Queen got your tongue?
A Rubens sandwich of babies and anti-war sentiment
Waity Katie no more!
Stick it to The Man
And they say snacking after dinner is sinful
Always wear your seat belt
That's one melancholic Madame
Talent out the wazoo
A literal hellscape
Conveniently peaceful portrait
A little to the left, no, to the right
"You're tearing me apart!"
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
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,...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
When men were muscley, women were soft, and there were only four continents
Snack time
And that is how we got the constellation Gemini
Swastikas were ok at the time
Angel of Assassination
Two women who don't want to talk to you
Because, Hitler
Baller Jesus
Rubens' fighting fleshlight
Baby Herc nips the nip
When the punishment doesn't fit the crime
Note: the actual event was a bit less serene
Just a martyr girl gang
Heyyy
I’m riding that hippo first!
It’s all about perspective
Footloose in French Polynesia
Falling for the same gal
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
Apparently there's no food chain in heaven
He's bad
Genoa's fanciest
Always the centaur of attention
Behind the Scenes at Arles
Portrait-ception
Painting the patron
Paint me in too, old buddy
Cézanne's remix
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Paul and Keanu's Excellent Adventure
A bit creepier than a friendship bracelet
Familial murder and godly revenge
A great painter's quest away from painting
Cultural appropriation at its finest
A bargain at twice the price
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
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
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
A gift to the Nation
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
The Earl goes bankrupt on art
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
USA's very first art school and museum
Don't call it a comeback
When Doves Cry
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
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Hippest place in Brighton
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Saved in times of war
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Buy now on Taschen
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Crazy architecture and a rocking view
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
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
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Former tobacco plantation
Built by Bernini and Borromini
SO. MUCH. JEWELRY.
Just a little touch of star quality
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
COTTON EYED JOE
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
For an art school, they sure have a lotta cash
Brought to you by your favorite skin cream
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/
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
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/
Considerable collections
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
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...
Their first curator added much of his own work
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
Not just a bunch of books
Just a few things about me: I love cuddles and all things sexy, which I make...
The setting for Kubrick's next film
Those Swiss have got it all!
The Latin LACMA
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Can you spot the fakes?
Nazis looted it, Allies bombed it, finally got its building back in the 1990s
Started small
Not too big, great collection and kid friendly to boot
A French-Japanese collaboration
“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.
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...
One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth at the Museum of Modern Art
It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
The school that rejected Hitler, thereby perhaps inadvertently causing WWII
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
