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Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Waiting on that free breakfast spread
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Japan's only museum for Western art and works really hard at it
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Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Made in a cabin
Wearing a vest of many colors
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
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Just another naked lady
Witness her
Sorry PETA
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Hitler's jam
Cablah-blah-blah
Bet on black
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
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If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Act spontaneous!
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Planting seeds
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
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
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
A star is born
I want to paint it black
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
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...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
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...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
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...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
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...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
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...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
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...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Possible peace portrait
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
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...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
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...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
