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One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Art on the walls and in the toilets
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
Right across from the palace. It's good to be the king!
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
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If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Caused a stir after its unveiling because of all the hot leg action.
Don’t be so naive
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Careful, might make you howl!
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
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Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
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San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
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Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
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
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
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...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
USA's very first art school and museum
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
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
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
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Hippest place in Brighton
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Saved in times of war
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Crazy architecture and a rocking view
Buy now on Taschen
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters 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 Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Former tobacco plantation
Built by Bernini and Borromini
SO. MUCH. JEWELRY.
Just a little touch of star quality
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
For an art school, they sure have a lotta cash
Brought to you by your favorite skin cream
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
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/
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
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...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
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
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/
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Considerable collections
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Their first curator added much of his own work
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Not just a bunch of books
The setting for Kubrick's next film
Those Swiss have got it all!
The Latin LACMA
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
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
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...
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
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
The school that rejected Hitler, thereby perhaps inadvertently causing WWII
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…...
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
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 far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Happy holidaze! What better date than 4/20 to launch our new “Stoners” category!? ...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Japan's only museum for Western art and works really hard at it
"You and I remember Budapest very differently."
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Buy now on The Met Store
Funky art in the heart of farm country
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
New York art world subterfuge
Hitler's jam
I can’t think of anything to say
If nobody is around to view art, does it disappear?
My heart is in Havana
Come for Guernica stay for ghost hunting
A treasure trove of gold
Do the Antwerp art scavenger hunt until this building re-opens in 2017
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Back Seat Dodge ‘38 by Edward Kienholz at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Faulty Landscape (Paysage Fautif) by Marcel Duchamp at the Museum of Modern Art...
Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
The Hangover (Suzanne Valadon) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at the Fogg Museum
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
The Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
One: Number 31, 1950 by Jackson Pollock at the Museum of Modern Art
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Angelica takes a stab at combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly crude...
Two Friends by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
A fun new series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Harlequin Head by Pablo Picasso
Reclining Nude by Suzanne Valadon
