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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...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
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
Miley and Kim have a selfie showdown.Oh God, what have we done. Turns out the...
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...
Probably banged your girlfriend
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
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...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Five museums for the price of one
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
This music video by Hold Your Horses! is a great way for you to spread your...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
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The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
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Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
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...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
A colorful feast
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Villainous Treachery
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
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...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
Earth! Fire! Wind! Water!...and Fascism!
Naked children provoke strong reactions
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Gimme those pearls
It’s all about perspective
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
With that in mind, Sartle’s officially, if reluctantly, come to the decision that...
Okay, so maybe fashion isn’t super intellectual in the way astrophysics is and it...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
How to spot Lauren in the crowd? She’ll have a pair of Sartle glasses on her head...
No point in watering these beans
Isle of Man coin
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
Target practice for Hitler's airforce
Imma start some drama
Forget tiny, this is world’s oddest violin
The one that got away
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Suspicious lack of togas
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
When men were muscley, women were soft, and there were only four continents
Butts, butts, butts, butts
Baller Jesus
Rodney King's zeitgeist
End of Days Dudes
Arcimboldo's Greatest Hits
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book 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
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just 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...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Singin’ in a ring
More than just delicious desserts
Stolen and recovered in no time at all
Oh so sad
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Squares are people too
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
The Fourth of July is soon approaching and there is no one better to emulate...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
It’s electric!
Jarring obsession
To gaze or not to gaze?
The circle of life
Literal food porn
Friendly neighborhood brewer
Should have been called "nude mistress in a red chair"
Scary or sexy?
Beer goggles gone wrong
Where he got his start
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
I'll have what she's having
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
Atomic ghosts
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Men react to the friendzone
Feeding your dogs a diet of girls who friendzone you
Miss. Manners says murder at the dinner table is rude
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
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
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
"Mom! You're embarrassing me!"
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Spear me maybe?
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
A tale of lactose lust
Low Countries, low genre
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
In California Chrome’s bid to win the Triple Crown (would’ve been the...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
All Children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once one grows up...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Reading rainbow
Back before the sh*t hit the fan
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
Harlequin Head by Pablo Picasso
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Nude Woman in a Red Armchair by Pablo Picasso
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
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Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
I had a hearty laugh watching Toy Story some 20 years later and finally getting...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
The Sartle office was abuzz with frivolity as we celebrated the release...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
We celebrate a lot of holidays centered around excess in this country; we...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
X” Marks the Spot
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
So get ready!
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Here is Marina Abramović’s Portrait with Scorpion (2005) We’re celebrating our...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
After a deep investigation, Team Sartle has discovered the infamous, elusive, great...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Many of my reviews are based off of my experiences as a shih tzu skeptic, a middle...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
We are thrilled to announce our newest featured contributor, Eelco Kappe...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Pixar’s newest feature film Inside Out has been out in theaters for less than a...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
