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The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
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If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Oh say can you see
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
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,...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Made in a cabin
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Wearing a vest of many colors
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
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I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Sorry PETA
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Hitler's jam
