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I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Make your pants feel tight
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It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
As an art historian I often find myself correcting people’s misconceptions (a lot...
Stone cold
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Oh say can you see
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Pining for a more cheerful shipwreck
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Delete the bits about rape and incest, and this could be a story out of Harry Potter
A political statement
Warhol ate this stuff up
Maybe don't clean your plate
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
“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...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
“Viva os catadores!"
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Gorilla warfare! Wait...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Never forget
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
