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So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
It’s that time of year again– Team Sartle delves back into the infamous great...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
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Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
It's almost like you're there
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
A year ago, Alexa.com did not rank Sartle at all because we did not have enough...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
All Children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once one grows up...
Remix!
Just what is going on here?
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo I...
Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Shown here with the tragically named baby North. Just kidding, no we haven’t! Kanye...
Prostitute or Prosti-Cute?
Mad Men, S.a.a.d City
Want to see a pic of Marsden’s crush?
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
With that in mind, Sartle’s officially, if reluctantly, come to the decision that...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
How to spot Lauren in the crowd? She’ll have a pair of Sartle glasses on her head...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
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...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps 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...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
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Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Here is Marina Abramović’s Portrait with Scorpion (2005) We’re celebrating our...
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
The Young Bull by Paulus Potter at the MauritshuisLike a classic Taurus, I’m a bit...
The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
Happy birthday to you vestal virgins who bring loyalty, hard work ethics,...
Happy birthday to our well-balanced Libras! Some would say the following artists...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
All right, all right no need to be crabby Cancers, it’s finally your month! Heh,...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Whodunnit??
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
Local good guys
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
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...
Welcome to Part Three of the Sartle Remix for The Life of Pablo. We’re celebrating...
Mining doesn’t cause death
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
Stone Age sisters doin’ it for themselves
Like, Totally Rad Art Dude
An ancient dick pic
Work of hot air
Portraits of Belleville
Kim K. has nothing on Courbet
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Damn, I look good
Build like the Egyptians
Advertise your god-complex
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
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Real Housewives of Paris
He's a little young for fetish play
Pretty but kind of boring
*deep existential sigh*
Bringing the inside out
The only good reason to join a cult
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Oh shit!
Sexism sucks
No days off
Go ahead and take a peek
Another nude, Gerome?
It haunts your dreams, it gives you the heebie jeebies, it makes you want to shriek...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Wearing a vest of many colors
I Spy: Lichtenstein edition
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
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Lovely sketch, sketchy love
The past is female
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How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Shades of Black
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
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Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Obsessed with calligraphy
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
As the temperature grows colder, some of us desperately hold on to the last...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
The wine flowed, and so did the ideas! (Shout-out to Bronips!)What categories would...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Our Sartle glasses came! We were so excited to try them on but the puggies got to...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
We are thrilled to announce our newest featured contributor, Eelco Kappe...
