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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...
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
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Miley and Kim have a selfie showdown.Oh God, what have we done. Turns out the...
Probably banged your girlfriend
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
Bankers and homeless people sit separately
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Men react to the friendzone
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
Five museums for the price of one
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
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When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
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Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
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...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
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...
A colorful feast
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Villainous Treachery
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
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,...
Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
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...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
It’s all about perspective
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Gimme those pearls
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
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
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...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
How to spot Lauren in the crowd? She’ll have a pair of Sartle glasses on her head...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Suspicious lack of togas
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Fashion hunny
Must love horses
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
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
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
No, your kid could not have painted this
Arcimboldo's Greatest Hits
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
Stolen and recovered in no time at all
Oh so sad
Watch now
Squares are people too
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
More than just delicious desserts
Singin’ in a ring
This one hung in Goya's dining room. Yum!
Gore, guts, and great shoes
TGIF
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Should have been called "nude mistress in a red chair"
Scary or sexy?
Beer goggles gone wrong
Where he got his start
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
It’s electric!
Jarring obsession
To gaze or not to gaze?
The circle of life
Literal food porn
Friendly neighborhood brewer
Upsetting
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
I'll have what she's having
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Feeding your dogs a diet of girls who friendzone you
Miss. Manners says murder at the dinner table is rude
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
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...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
The greatest sacrifice
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
"Mom! You're embarrassing me!"
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Spear me maybe?
All Children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once one grows up...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
A tale of lactose lust
Low Countries, low genre
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Reading rainbow
Back before the sh*t hit the fan
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Harlequin Head by Pablo Picasso
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Nude Woman in a Red Armchair by Pablo Picasso
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
I had a hearty laugh watching Toy Story some 20 years later and finally getting...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
