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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...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
As an art historian I often find myself correcting people’s misconceptions (a lot...
Stone cold
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
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Warhol ate this stuff up
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Delete the bits about rape and incest, and this could be a story out of Harry Potter
A political statement
Maybe don't clean your plate
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
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:...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
“Viva os catadores!"
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...
It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Gorilla warfare! Wait...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
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...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
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...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
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-...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
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...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Never forget
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
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...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
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...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
*** 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...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
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...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
