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Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Has a disease named after him
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1,2,3 Kick!
Ancient architecture, delicious casserole and fabulous art
When you're unhappy and you know it don't clap your hands
Green ladies are always the nicest
Before Facebook event pages, you had to get creative
Secret lives of gay prostitutes
Mr. Cool always gets invited to the party
Yvette herself thought it a "monstrosity"
Babe, I’m sorry I’m late
When will my reflection show who I am inside
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
This woman has attitude, an appetite, and boy can she dance!
Health care for sex workers
Those who can't do, paint
A quiet day at the brothel
Smart girls don't buy sight unseen
Imitation is the sincerest form of brown-nosing
Explosive high kicks
Sexy stocking stuffers
Spot all the artist’s besties
Everybody dance now
Two Friends by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
The Hangover (Suzanne Valadon) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at the Fogg Museum
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Those have got to be implants
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
Even firecrackers run out of energy eventually
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Teacher of artists
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
Angelica takes a stab at combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
He married a rich model
A good man in a messed up world
Armchair tourism pays off
Save the horses!
Copying can be a legitimate career choice sometimes
Sgt. of Art
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Watch now
Briggsy
Click here to find God!
Where's that dam photo?
A wandering painter
Hey, I’m Maya! I started interning at Sartle a little over a month ago along with...
If you're ugly just move around faster
You're never going to find Waldo
Not not animal abuse
Theme-park farmers
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Would rather throw spitballs than study
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
What do Henri Matisse and Ellen DeGeneres have in common?
Is she being coy or does he have bad breath?
Ain’t no party like a Pieter Bruegel the Elder party
Ring around the rosie
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
Loved the countryside, and died of lyme disease contracted in the countryside
Take the easy way out and make some money
Sounds like salami
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Drawn to the dark side
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
A Horrifying History
Distilling days of ritual
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
You can find me in the club, bottle full of bub
The pitfalls of trying to sell stolen art
Stalin hated it!
Before Freddy Krueger there were still things that went bump in the night
Neato nature
Guy about to invent writing: oh, you haven't heard?
There's no such thing as bad publicity
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
Sibling rivalry
Savage fashion
Shapes that make sculpture out of thin air
Guggenheim hooked it UP
Grab a mai-tai
Do the thing! Win the sports!
Don’t be so naive
God save the Queen!
Float like a butterfly, threads like an OG
No bra days are the best days
Big henry
Style changes to depict a living nightmare
Playing dress up
Not balloon animals
It’s, like, a metaphor, man
A tender moment
“You’re blocking my light”
Iconic... apparently
Little pig's tail
Rock the casbah!
Squares are people too
It's almost like you're there
Rebel in pantaloons
Now you see me...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Nothing like a ten-some to tempt a saint
Not from a fat chicken, just a big boned one
Didn't turn out great, as you might guess
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy
Harsher on racists than Trump
Make it green! Make it blue! Make it red!
A political pain in the ass
Taking the sun-spot in a lions’ den
Lit by divinity
Praying to have faith
So this is why they call them blueprints
The right to bear arms?
Daddy's little girl grows up
Once a good boy, always a good boy
Œdipus starts some drama
Just some good ol’ fashioned Milton fanfiction
Heavenly view
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Skating on thick ice
Rip van drinkle
Sacred moment made earthly and intimate
A bargain at twice the price
I’ll never understand humans
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Portrait of Henry VIII of England by Hans Holbein the Younger Pronunciation: /cag-...
Don't call it a comeback
All it’s missing is a cup of tea
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau at Museum of Modern ArtHappy, happy birthday...
Odalisque with Red Culottes by Henri Matisse
A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly crude...
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
Sexism and misogyny were rampant throughout the 20th century in basically...
Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
This portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not quite as flattering as you...
All Children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once one grows up...
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo I...
Clueless has become as classically vintage as Cher’s 1972 columns with traces of...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
(We’d also like to point out that 13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. She was born...
Fish (Still Life), 1864. By Édouard Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoHappy...
Isamu Noguchi by Winold Reiss at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington)
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air by Adolf Ziegler at the Gallery of...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Pixar’s newest feature film Inside Out has been out in theaters for less than a...
Artist and friend of Van Gogh and Gauguin
Puppy painter extraordinaire
Turns out Katy Perry contracts out her sharks. We found Left Shark doing its best...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
If you liked Wes Anderson’s fantastic animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, or his Rushmore...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Not a nature guy
Could paint a grain elevator and make it pretty
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Many of my reviews are based off of my experiences as a shih tzu skeptic, a middle...
Jesuit missionary work gone horribly wrong
Wandering souls
This room drove its owner insane
Depressed, not depressing
Planting the seed
90s and neon...so on trend
Don't turn the thermostat up too high
Get your hand out of your pants, Sollie!
Censorship makes us crabby
Gives new meaning to "eating out"
No one knows just how deep it goes
Making the most of fire and brimstone
Only men can see this one
As close to hurtling through space as most of us will get
Walk on their faces
Experience infinity in one minute
The sweetest of portraits
Revolution!
Here we goooo
Unmade, smelly and dirty.
Classic Hirst
What lucky intern got to assemble these?
Calling all cynical pessimists!
Finally, a female gaze
Claustrophobics beware
"I like that queasy feeling"
Someone wasn’t paying attention in Sunday School
Monument to a bromance
Not even a little bit
Singin’ in a ring
Epileptics beware
Pretty sure they are laughing at you, not with you
A victim of the urban housing crisis
Too school for cool
Could be an ad for a Life Alert commercial
Shia LeBeouf, is that you?
But especially vices
Netflix and chill...with Buddha
One depressing miscommunication
A walk on the beach
Fancy birthday presents
A sedimental work for a sentimental guy
Marching to the beat of her own drum
A stoner's dream
A techy tower
He barely tried
The artworld goes to seed
201 spheres in a big circus tent
Where Superman meets Sylvia Plath
Bless your heart
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
Cross dressing revolutionary
Possibly cut off van Gogh's ear
Señor Sticky Fingers
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Ghosts above the city
Not for the panic attack prone
Khan’t stop, won’t stop
Trespassing & Tiaras
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
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...
If I could turn back ti-ime!
Literally *fire*
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
It is the (second) most wonderful time of the year: Halloween. Whether you’re...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
The middle dress in the image above is the one that was originally posted on tumblr...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
But, we love arbitrary holidays, like #NationalBirdDay, more. Obviously, we have...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
May the force be with you.So I don’t know about you guys, but I know A LOT of...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
