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Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Just a few things about me: I love cuddles and all things sexy, which I make...
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Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
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Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
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Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
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This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
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One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
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Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
Island in the Plains
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Are your eyes bleeding from binge watching the entirety of Orange Is the New Black...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
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Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
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The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
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Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
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I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
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Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
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...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
I’ll never understand humans
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
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Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
I want to paint it black
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At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
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‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
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The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
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It's not vandalism if your heart is in the right place
Like the evil twin, except super nice
The Supreme square
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Careful, might make you howl!
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
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We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
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!
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
It’s nice to see, however, that his latest project (the “Journel (sic) of...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Flower or vagina, that is the question
Blobby woman parts galore
Everyone needs a good LBD
The German George Carlin
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
It's not a vagina!
Where the pier meets the ocean
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Never forget
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Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
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They're not making chili
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This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
Hippest place in Brighton
Get your mind outta the gutter!
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a rocket?
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Considerable collections
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If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
young, sexy, and rich
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Those Swiss have got it all!
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
You may think Earth Day isn’t that exciting…Artists have been inspired by...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
