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Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
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If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
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The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Shown here with the tragically named baby North. Just kidding, no we haven’t! Kanye...
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Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
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Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Paint-ception
Thought Michelangelo was overrated
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Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Probably banged your girlfriend
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
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In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Five museums for the price of one
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
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The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
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Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
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Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
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Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
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The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Villainous Treachery
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
A colorful feast
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
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She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Earth! Fire! Wind! Water!...and Fascism!
Naked children provoke strong reactions
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Gimme those pearls
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
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Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
It’s all about perspective
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Target practice for Hitler's airforce
Imma start some drama
Forget tiny, this is world’s oddest violin
The one that got away
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
No point in watering these beans
Isle of Man coin
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
How to spot Lauren in the crowd? She’ll have a pair of Sartle glasses on her head...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Suspicious lack of togas
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
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When men were muscley, women were soft, and there were only four continents
Butts, butts, butts, butts
Baller Jesus
Rodney King's zeitgeist
End of Days Dudes
Arcimboldo's Greatest Hits
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Picasso does Mary Cassatt
Up in smoke!
Even cassanovas can get depressed
The legend herself
Hello darkness (Casagemas), Picasso's old friend
The family that circuses together stays together
Three-headed musician = daddy issues
Right before Cubism went off the rails
Idyllic villas, an escape
Look at that cock
Mirror mirror on the wall
Prussian Blue for your dead mate
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Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
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Stolen and recovered in no time at all
Oh so sad
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Squares are people too
Singin’ in a ring
More than just delicious desserts
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
Should have been called "nude mistress in a red chair"
Scary or sexy?
Beer goggles gone wrong
Where he got his start
It’s electric!
Jarring obsession
To gaze or not to gaze?
The circle of life
Literal food porn
Friendly neighborhood brewer
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
