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Welcome to Part Four, the grande finale of the epic Sartle Remix for The Life of...
One day you may see Kanye’s nipples. But it is not this day.Welcome to Part Two of...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Shown here with the tragically named baby North. Just kidding, no we haven’t! Kanye...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Paint-ception
Thought Michelangelo was overrated
Miley and Kim have a selfie showdown.Oh God, what have we done. Turns out the...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Probably banged your girlfriend
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Five museums for the price of one
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
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The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
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Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
A year ago, Alexa.com did not rank Sartle at all because we did not have enough...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
A colorful feast
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Villainous Treachery
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Earth! Fire! Wind! Water!...and Fascism!
Naked children provoke strong reactions
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
It’s all about perspective
Gimme those pearls
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
With that in mind, Sartle’s officially, if reluctantly, come to the decision that...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Target practice for Hitler's airforce
Imma start some drama
Forget tiny, this is world’s oddest violin
The one that got away
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
No point in watering these beans
Isle of Man coin
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
How to spot Lauren in the crowd? She’ll have a pair of Sartle glasses on her head...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Suspicious lack of togas
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
When men were muscley, women were soft, and there were only four continents
Butts, butts, butts, butts
Baller Jesus
Rodney King's zeitgeist
End of Days Dudes
Arcimboldo's Greatest Hits
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Picasso does Mary Cassatt
Up in smoke!
Even cassanovas can get depressed
The legend herself
Hello darkness (Casagemas), Picasso's old friend
The family that circuses together stays together
Three-headed musician = daddy issues
Right before Cubism went off the rails
Idyllic villas, an escape
Look at that cock
Mirror mirror on the wall
Prussian Blue for your dead mate
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Stolen and recovered in no time at all
Oh so sad
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Squares are people too
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
More than just delicious desserts
Singin’ in a ring
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
Should have been called "nude mistress in a red chair"
Scary or sexy?
Beer goggles gone wrong
Where he got his start
It’s electric!
Jarring obsession
To gaze or not to gaze?
The circle of life
Literal food porn
Friendly neighborhood brewer
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
I'll have what she's having
Atomic ghosts
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Men react to the friendzone
Feeding your dogs a diet of girls who friendzone you
Miss. Manners says murder at the dinner table is rude
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
If you take enough drugs, it really looks like a violin!
So you want to be a Cubist?
A long ride for a free meal
Praying to have faith
Falling for the same gal
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
"Mom! You're embarrassing me!"
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
Spear me maybe?
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
