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The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
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...
When you can’t pick a paint swatch
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The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
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...
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From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
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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...
Hitler's jam
Cablah-blah-blah
Bet on black
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
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Act spontaneous!
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Planting seeds
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Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
Behind the Scenes at Arles
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Fighting the canvas
Let’s paint here, they won’t find us
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
A star is born
I want to paint it black
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
Very precious plaster
Vacation home art
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...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
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...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
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...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Think of what you'd save on wrinkle cream...
Bringin' sexy back
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
The Sartle office was abuzz with frivolity as we celebrated the release...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Possible peace portrait
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
