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With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
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This week we’re looking at a piece of art that we all know from our freshman year:...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
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Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
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As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
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“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
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Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Surf's up, dude
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Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
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His momma was a concubine
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Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
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May be the home of a mysterious monster
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Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
It’s nice to see, however, that his latest project (the “Journel (sic) of...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
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If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
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“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
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Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
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...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
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This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
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Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
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Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
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The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
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Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
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Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
Art is the pits
The ninth and final straw?
Cue Jaws theme
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I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
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By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
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Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
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‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
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Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
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We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
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I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
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via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
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Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Made a real splash
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
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Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
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The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
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At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
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Young, dumb and in love
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TGIF
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
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Protection money being handed over; the Pope who pays gets to watch
Seven shades of black
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Careful, might make you howl!
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Mean Girls turns ten and we all cry about how old we've gotten. YAY! But it...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
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...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
What’s more alarming: an avalanche or climate change?
It says “nude,” right?
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At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Alexander's not so well
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Mi concubine es su concubine!
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Never forget
Hippest place in Brighton
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...
Happy holidaze! What better date than 4/20 to launch our new “Stoners” category!? ...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Considerable collections
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Those Swiss have got it all!
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
