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Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
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...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
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Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
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Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
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...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
This little piggy went to the guggenheim
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
A Bacchanal without Pollock
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Calling all cynical pessimists!
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
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...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
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...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Don't panic, it's organic
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
