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Dollar dollar bill y'all
Dynamic duo
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Looking for Love
This painting might scare the s**t out of you
Pictures of You
Looking smug
Daddy of the constitution
As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
Blondes have more fun, even if they can't eat steak
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...
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
I like it when you call me big poppa
There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily KandinskyI don’t do...
I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
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...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
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It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Our founding mother
Stiff upper lip
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Here is Marina Abramović’s Portrait with Scorpion (2005) We’re celebrating our...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
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...
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,...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Whodunnit??
Throughout art history, artists have paid homage to the compelling power of...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
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
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Damn, I look good
Build like the Egyptians
Advertise your god-complex
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
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
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?
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Wearing a vest of many colors
I Spy: Lichtenstein edition
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
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Great not just because it was produced by a woman
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
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...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Obsessed with calligraphy
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
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...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Loves ants
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
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...
It’s Kiss a Ginger day and we’re kicking off the day by celebrating...
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…...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Hey, I’m Maya! I started interning at Sartle a little over a month ago along with...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
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...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
This week we start with a classic: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, housed at...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
Today we venture into hipster paradise, because this is a piece of art that...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
What’s up Sartle people? We decided to be a little less mainstream this year and...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
It’s not that anyone did anything explicitly bad to Carmen Herrera. It’...
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...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Pixar’s newest feature film Inside Out has been out in theaters for less than a...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Haha, sucks for you East Coasters! No, but seriously, all that snow sounds terrible...
Just a few things about me: I love cuddles and all things sexy, which I make...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Shown here with the tragically named baby North. Just kidding, no we haven’t! Kanye...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
Yea, that's his real name
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Great beard, better art
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
Francesco Fragomeni and Chris Limbrick started recreating famous works of art using...
Loves TV, hates men.
The Rembrandt of the video age
The better to hear you with, my dear
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
It's the end of October, which can only mean one thing: Sartle's annual Pumpkin...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...
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)
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Classic cosplay
The art world’s very own Cruella De Vil
If sexy Vermeer isn’t really working for ya, but you still want to rock the most...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
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
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
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
They go apeshit over inequality!
Exactly as cool as her name sounds
Loves a big salad
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...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Some think he would look good in formaldehyde...
Buried like a pharaoh, in his favorite car with some choice accessories
She is goals
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
It haunts your dreams, it gives you the heebie jeebies, it makes you want to shriek...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
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
She's still Jenny from the Block
The VR star
Punched William Carlos Williams in the face
Museum as canvas
Not suitable for children
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Left the nunnery...
Plays the polka
Soft and scary
Like Midas, but different
The Obamas love him
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
The Great Deconstructor
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
A mama's girl
Married to a stone
"Talent is cheap"
Nature collagist
I’m not Pop, you are.
The ‘Evel’ Kinevel of the art scene
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
"Fell" out of a 34th floor window during an argument
Screamer
One man's trash is this man's treasure
His most famous work of art and his first CD are both nothing
Obey!
The trickster
From ant watcher to artist
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
One of her shows got shut down by the police
Sculpted strange tableaux, and died too young.
When a fire starts to burn...she'll be there
Abracadabra!
She's a Jill of all trades
Old style, new subjects
So. Cool.
Show her your beach bod
Cute politico
Almost murderer
Like a hoarder, but with less of the mess
Of the so-called “fuck off generation” of Chinese artists
One Who Is Talented
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
A little dotty herself
As if the arts couldn't get any weirder
Genius from South Central
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Crying Girl by Roy LichtensteinWelcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
Put the Hello in Helvetica. Not related to Freddie.
Rock on Yves...
Stellar
His art will knock you off your feet...literallly
From begging to bed-in
Dopehead? Maybe. Genius? Def.
Bad boy from Switzerland
May have been brain dead once
So wildly badass it's hard to handle
Died young in Ibiza
The rabble-rouser herself
Schmoozing to pass the time
Provocative shadows
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Businessman, con artist, hypochondriac, shooting victim, awesome
The court jester of the art world
Sir Shameless
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Fountain Lady
Basic betches love Banksy
The uncanny valley of kitsch
Brush is mightier than the stethoscope
Her genital puns are not gentle
Picked a dangerous medium for someone so unlucky.
Trash to treasure
Let him blow ya mind
Brother nature
Hello Kitty on shrooms
Vomits rainbows
Genius from Korea
Turn on, tune in, drop out
Cutting racial commentary
Outsider turned insider
Got tired of brushes v quickly
Creepy art
He made geometry dramatic
OG Abstract Expressionist
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
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...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
His poop took down a power line in Berne
The man, the myth, the legend
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Shoplifter, electroshock therapy survivor, proverbial everywoman
Crazy camel lady
Painter with a green brush
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
Steel mill is his studio
Likes to psychoanalyse viewers with his art
Italian bad boy. His shit is worth its weight in gold.
Glamourous...
Expat
He has a lot to say about his art and his art is all about him
Always on the Lookout for Technological Invention and Innovation in Film.
Could have also picked the name Judy Vagina
Does a surprisingly good Mona Lisa impression
Optical illusions and Kate Moss lookalikes
Queen of appropriation
Ain't no quilting granny
If Star Trek is your thing...
Didn't want to live in America anyway
A man of many names and one iconic mustache.
The sink guy, but not a plumber
Loves zoot suits
Competing with Mother Nature
The Black Atlantic
Ground Control to Major Tom
Not your average frontiersman
Favorite hangout? The desert.
The Inventor of the Snapshot
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
“Anything you do will be an abuse of somebody else’s aesthetics.”
Sol for president
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
Born to watch paint dry
