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Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Crack open a cold one
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Let’s hope he never gets up
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Made in a cabin
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Wearing a vest of many colors
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
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Just another naked lady
Witness her
Sorry PETA
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Hitler's jam
Cablah-blah-blah
Bet on black
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
Act spontaneous!
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
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:...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Planting seeds
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
Behind the Scenes at Arles
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Fighting the canvas
Let’s paint here, they won’t find us
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
A star is born
I want to paint it black
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
Very precious plaster
Vacation home art
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
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...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
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....
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Everyman painter
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
