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The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
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(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
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rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
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Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
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Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
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Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
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Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
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Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
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Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
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This week we’re looking at a piece of art that we all know from our freshman year:...
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Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
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The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
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Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
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Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
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Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
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Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
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Careful, might make you howl!
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
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Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
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Artist Exposes genitals in Paris Museum StuntPerformance Artist Sits in From of...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
This post is serving as a PSA to remind you to call yer mother, because Sunday is...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
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Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
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Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
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Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
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Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
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Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
