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This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
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The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
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This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
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Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Oh say can you see
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In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Shown here with the tragically named baby North. Just kidding, no we haven’t! Kanye...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
A good swattin’
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
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The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
A year ago, Alexa.com did not rank Sartle at all because we did not have enough...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
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Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
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In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
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The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
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Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Careful, might make you howl!
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
It’s nice to see, however, that his latest project (the “Journel (sic) of...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
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Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
We dont need no education
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
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Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
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66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
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…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
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San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
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We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Mining doesn’t cause death
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Never forget
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
Hippest place in Brighton
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
