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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...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
They're just like us!
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Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
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When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
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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...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
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This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
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...
Oh say can you see
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
This little piggy went to the guggenheim
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
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....
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
A Bacchanal without Pollock
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
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...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
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...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
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...
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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...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Don't panic, it's organic
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Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
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In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
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...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
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...
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...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
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...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
We are excited to announce that Sartle has created a trivia game, and it is now...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
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Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
