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All Children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once one grows up...
I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s a studio boat!
Beloved wife, sort of...
How do I look?
Here is Marina Abramović’s Portrait with Scorpion (2005) We’re celebrating our...
Environmental types may protest
How the Impressionists got their name
Monet’s lily pond salvation
Monet dancing in the snow
On the outside looking in
Ciao from Venizia
Time-lapse photography was invented here
It's like a painting, see?
Monet paints choo choo trains
In a hard time
Manet could never
Mary Poppins?
Like a crayon box threw up
Eye of the beholder
Same bridge, different day
Palette knife king
Warning: this painting may cause extreme déjà vu
Largest collection of Monets, DUH
Let’s paint here, they won’t find us
Do the locomotion with me
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Freaky families
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Clueless has become as classically vintage as Cher’s 1972 columns with traces of...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Not one but many selves
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo I...
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
No laurels here
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
The spiritual gunshow
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
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...
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...
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,...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Whodunnit??
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
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
Watch now
Damn, I look good
Build like the Egyptians
Advertise your god-complex
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
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
These serpents made hiss-tory
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Oh shit!
Sexism sucks
No days off
Go ahead and take a peek
Another nude, Gerome?
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
As an art historian I often find myself correcting people’s misconceptions (a lot...
Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Wearing a vest of many colors
I Spy: Lichtenstein edition
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
The past is female
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
Shades of Black
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
Obsessed with calligraphy
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Loves ants
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
If you think modern artists were the only dames done wrong, then you’ve got...
Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Yea, that's his real name
Great beard, better art
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Loves TV, hates men.
The Rembrandt of the video age
The better to hear you with, my dear
You think you know, but you have no idea.
Critics call him “Modernism’s Evel Knievel.”
Bodhisattva of the art world
Extreme performance artist
Renaissance woman
A feast for the senses
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Classic cosplay
The art world’s very own Cruella De Vil
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Barbed wire hula hoop dancer
Capitalizes on our compulsions...and our anxieties
Crusader for vaginas around the world
Queer of all trades
Rebel with plenty of cause
Like Wonder Woman but different
A new kind of art historian
Making subversive art under the radar
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
Blue eyes...
Not of the Bad Seeds...
A guy who knows how to get the ball rolling
Built a career off an idea he had at Burning Man
You light up my life
He's a regular techno Jesus
There's no one quite like her
Exciting and scaring museums globally
Changing the world, one photo at a time
They go apeshit over inequality!
Exactly as cool as her name sounds
Loves a big salad
Some think he would look good in formaldehyde...
Buried like a pharaoh, in his favorite car with some choice accessories
She is goals
Still waters run deep
Too hot for some critics
Korean techno superstar.
Donuts for the people!
Nothing like your grandma
Works that body
Minimal man
Rising star
Not a sports guy
