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This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...

By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...

Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...

Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli  Beginning just nine years...

Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...

Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...

  When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...

Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...

  The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...

Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...

The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...

The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...

via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...

Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...

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...

The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...

  At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...

Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...

If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...

The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...

Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...

Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...

Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...

The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...

Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...

Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...

Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...

Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...

The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...

Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager   Can you even...

YBAs are so fetch.    Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...

Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...

Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...

Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...

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This just in: Sartle makes new friends!  Amelia, Victoria, and...

Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...

Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...

The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...

Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....

  It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...

Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...

The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...

  When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...

Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...

The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...

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  As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...

Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...

Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....

Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...

Vincent van  Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....

Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...

Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...

Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...

Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl?  Karl the FOG, that...

Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...

We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...

(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...