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The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
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...
Flora and Flattery
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
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In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
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...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
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....
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
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I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Sorry PETA
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Hitler's jam
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Bet on black
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
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Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Act spontaneous!
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Planting seeds
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
Behind the Scenes at Arles
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Fighting the canvas
Let’s paint here, they won’t find us
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
A star is born
I want to paint it black
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
Very precious plaster
Vacation home art
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
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...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
