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It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
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Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
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...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Today, however, we got word straight outta Central Europe about a cool app in...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
