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There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
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The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
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The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
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It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
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...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
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Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
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...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
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…...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
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...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
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Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
