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Harlequin Head by Pablo Picasso
Reclining Nude by Suzanne Valadon
Diana and Actaeon by Francesco Albani
A Grotesque Old Woman by Quentin Matsys
Inn with Drunken Peasants (Boerendrinkpartij) by Adriaen Brouwer
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Nude Woman in a Red Armchair by Pablo Picasso
Two Friends by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly crude...
The Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet
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Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
The Hangover (Suzanne Valadon) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at the Fogg Museum
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium
S.O.S. Starification Object Series (Back) by Hannah Wilke at The Solomon R....
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Portrait of Captain Thomas Lee by Marcus Gheeraerts II at the Tate Britain
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
Faulty Landscape (Paysage Fautif) by Marcel Duchamp at the Museum of Modern Art...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
Gabrielle d’Estrées and One of Her Sisters by Mystery Artist at the Musée du...
A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
Back Seat Dodge ‘38 by Edward Kienholz at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
One: Number 31, 1950 by Jackson Pollock at the Museum of Modern Art
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
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Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
This week we start with a classic: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, housed at...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
All it’s missing is a cup of tea
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
Would you like a wall to go with that ceiling?
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Not at night and not very watchful
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
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Judgment day is apparently going to involve some perverted violence
Didn’t something used to roam around here?
Party like it’s 1639
Not your mama’s last supper
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Light up the night!
Don’t eat it please.
Just what is going on here?
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
In addition to briefing Sandi on our progress, we discussed weighty matters of art...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Tom Hanks struggled with this one
P-p-p-poker Face, P-p-p-poker Face
A subtle reminder about eternity
Party like it's 1668
You've probably seen this everywhere
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
Avada Kedavra
A steed as turbulent as its owner
A worrisome thing
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Your capitalism is showing
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
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...
Brittany hasn’t got anything on van Gogh.
Is there a doctor in the house?
Rain on me
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
So we beat on, boats against the current
Making fun of puritanical ideals
I don’t want no wants
Big empire, bigger ego
No need to fear when sleep is here
As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
The other Starry Night
Just some good ol’ fashioned Milton fanfiction
Anyone have a nail file?
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
OUCH
When a landscape artist is commissioned to paint a religious scene
Designing for the Soviet Woman
End of Days Dudes
Haunted horse
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Painting skyscrapers before it was cool
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
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
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
A gift to the Nation
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Get ready for the waterworks
Dead babies
No relation to the steak
The sun'll come out
The hills are alive
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
USA's very first art school and museum
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
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
An unfortunate moral dilemma…
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Failure to sell
Not for acrophobes
A great painter's quest away from painting
It’s electric!
It's gonna blow!
Jesus has had enough!
A spiritual about-face
(You Drive Me) Crazy
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Hippest place in Brighton
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Saved in times of war
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Crazy architecture and a rocking view
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
BFF's til the end
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Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Ghostwood
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Popular place to film when you're trying to prove the movie is actually in LA
Fort Worth a trip
Expanded in 2016!
Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows
Underground in the City of Angels
Giant robot threatens cafe-goers. Dine at your own risk!
Yes...they "borrowed" the art
Poop in style while you enjoy art
Cheers to the gov'na!
Not for during rush hour
The first permanent art gallery in New Zealand!
Not made of crystals
Way better than the Old Britain museum
Come one, come all
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Former tobacco plantation
Built by Bernini and Borromini
SO. MUCH. JEWELRY.
Just a little touch of star quality
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
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...
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
For an art school, they sure have a lotta cash
Brought to you by your favorite skin cream
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
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
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
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
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
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/
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Careful, might make you howl!
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Considerable collections
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
That's Master Richard to you!
Everyone has a goth phase
Very precious plaster
Vacation home art
Atomic ghosts
Gothic tipi?
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Their first curator added much of his own work
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
The sun never sets on Turner’s legacy
Not just a bunch of books
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
The setting for Kubrick's next film
Those Swiss have got it all!
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
The Latin LACMA
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
