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Right across from the palace. It's good to be the king!
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
A gift to the Nation
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Who run the world? Girls!
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Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
One museum, two museum, three museum, floor
Giant robot threatens cafe-goers. Dine at your own risk!
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Japan's only museum for Western art and works really hard at it
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
The real deal
Modern Indian masters
Come and say g'day
Founded in 1880 by the 7th Duke of Argyle (after whose family's lands argyle socks are named)
They're keeping the name
Purchased a Rembrandt for £20
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
A good swattin’
Used to be a palace, v. chic
Likes to botch restoration projects and spend a lot of money
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Island in the Plains
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Aye laddy...
I’ll be very easy to spot since I’ll be wearing a pair of the super amazing x-ray...
The Phaaaaaaaaaaaaaantom of the opera is here!
Danish, anyone?
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Careful, might make you howl!
Famous British Mugs
"The noblest of Washington buildings." - Walt Whitman
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Great Scott!
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Does Renaissance art give you the hots?
Doctor Who is here a lot
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Made in a cabin
You gotta check out the miniature paintings!
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Get elevated
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
We dont need no education
Wearing a vest of many colors
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
What is the meaning of life?
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Mao Tse-Tung No. 4 by Andy Warhol at the National Gallery of Australia...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
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Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
A fun new series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Angelica joins the party, combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
Take that Uncle Sam!
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Nature is awesome
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
