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To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Dreamed of a large Lincoln
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Frida Kahlo called him her "Frog Prince"
Not a one trick pony
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Let’s hope he never gets up
Crack open a cold one
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Buy now on The Met Store
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Made in a cabin
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Wearing a vest of many colors
Communism speaks at the Pacific Stock Exchange
Flowers are heavy
Friends with all the superstars
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Celebration of America or communism?
Before she changed her name...and her man
Too little too late!
Surprise face!
Reflecting on a revolution
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Just another naked lady
Witness her
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Bad beezy
Rocking the five-head
So you want to be a Cubist?
A long ride for a free meal
A faceless painting surrounded by celebrities
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Not allowed to be political
I come bearing gifts of flowers and revolution
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Banned for a while
If at first you don’t succeed...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
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...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Everyman painter
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Many of my reviews are based off of my experiences as a shih tzu skeptic, a middle...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
