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What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Careful, might make you howl!
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
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It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Me-ow
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Oh say can you see
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Sexy kitten
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...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
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...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
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...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
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...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
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 ...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
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...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Float like a butterfly, threads like an OG
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
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...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
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...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
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...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Nothing Fits, But Everything Works
He left the cat for last
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
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...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
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...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
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...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
They go together like cat and eel
That darn cat
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
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...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
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...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Buffalo Bill's Back Fat
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Never forget
Hippest place in Brighton
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
Considerable collections
Those Swiss have got it all!
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
It’s probably because artists don’t have the burden of a 9-5 gig. I mean, not only...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
All 'bout that bass, 'bout that bass, no treble
Created by Sister Suffragette
Embrace your inner underdog and recreate Rocky Balboa's run to the top!
Get Smart! See art!
It's THE Met
MOMA knows everything goes better with Bacon!
Quality, not quantity
Motor city
Good wine and interesting art
Two museums in one
One of the wealthiest museums in America
Only place that call the Dutch Masters the "North Dutch school"
Named after a beer maker
Will somebody please think of the children??
Put a bird on it
A taste of Asia in the Tenderloin
Sweet Home Alabama
Cooler than an Orange Julius
In the Athens of Australia
It's free, not cheap
I would walk 500 miles...
It's hammer time
Yee-haw
Probably the first museum to use guns as performance art
This museum is worth A-GO
Just keeps getting bigger
Joe Biden likes to come here (probably)
New Jersey gem
A capital collection in the capital of Ohio
It's pronounced Woo-stah
It's all about that space
Not blan(d) at all
Welcome to the jungle
Mo Money, Mo Museums
Get High on art here
Lots of art in the heartland
Awesome, free, big-city museum
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
A gift to the Nation
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
Watch now
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
USA's very first art school and museum
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Created as part of the New Deal
Enjoy art in an architectural iceburg
One of the oldest public art museums in America
Has a cool grand staircase
Who run the world? Girls!
Brand spankin' new!
Don't get dizzy walking around this circular museum
Has a lot of money to throw around
Abraham Lincoln had his inaugural ball here
Figure out the way to San Jose...ASAP!
Throw another cutting edge exhibit on the barbie...?
2 rich guys, a museum, and a wing place
Happy wife happy life!
Great art in the windy city
Started by a navy man
Everything's bigger in Texas
Possibly haunted
