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The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Flora and Flattery
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
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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...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
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...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
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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...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Hitler's jam
Cablah-blah-blah
Bet on black
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
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Act spontaneous!
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Planting seeds
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
Behind the Scenes at Arles
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Fighting the canvas
Let’s paint here, they won’t find us
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
A star is born
I want to paint it black
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
Very precious plaster
Vacation home art
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Possible peace portrait
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
