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"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
To gaze or not to gaze?
One wild and sexy lady
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
Under the big tent
Not your typical odalisque
The forbidden male nude
It takes a woman to give nudes true personality
Umbrella collector
Reclining Nude by Suzanne Valadon
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
The Hangover (Suzanne Valadon) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at the Fogg Museum
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Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Happy birthday to our well-balanced Libras! Some would say the following artists...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
A colorful feast
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
It’s all about perspective
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
Stolen and recovered in no time at all
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Paint-ception
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Jarring obsession
The circle of life
Literal food porn
Friendly neighborhood brewer
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
I'll have what she's having
Freaky families
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
If you take enough drugs, it really looks like a violin!
So you want to be a Cubist?
A long ride for a free meal
Praying to have faith
Falling for the same gal
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Spear me maybe?
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
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 tale of lactose lust
Low Countries, low genre
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Reading rainbow
Back before the sh*t hit the fan
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...
My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
Lucas Cranach the Elder, who painted The Fountain of Youth in the 1500s must be...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Pixar’s newest feature film Inside Out has been out in theaters for less than a...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
The art world’s very own Cruella De Vil
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Once Punched a Skeleton
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
