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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...
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...
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If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Oh say can you see
…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,...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Made in a cabin
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Wearing a vest of many colors
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
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Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Sorry PETA
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Hitler's jam
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Bet on black
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
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Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Never forget
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
Act spontaneous!
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Planting seeds
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
