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Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
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...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Crack open a cold one
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Let’s hope he never gets up
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Made in a cabin
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Wearing a vest of many colors
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
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...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
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Just another naked lady
Witness her
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Sorry PETA
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Hitler's jam
Cablah-blah-blah
Bet on black
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Act spontaneous!
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Planting seeds
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
Behind the Scenes at Arles
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Fighting the canvas
Let’s paint here, they won’t find us
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
“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
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
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...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
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...
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...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
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...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
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...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Everyman painter
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
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...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
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...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
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...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Possible peace portrait
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
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...
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...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
