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What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
Careful, might make you howl!
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
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It’s International Cat Day! Prepare yourselves for a doctorate-level...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
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Oh say can you see
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Sexy kitten
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
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...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
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...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
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.
It doesn’t get much better than a Bachelor-art-history mashup.Hopefully you caught...
It’s a cold and foggy day at Sartle HQ and we’re channeling Ginevra here…...
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...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
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,...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Float like a butterfly, threads like an OG
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
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...
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...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
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...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
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...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
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...
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
Nothing Fits, But Everything Works
He left the cat for last
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
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...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
They go together like cat and eel
That darn cat
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
If being a ghost feels too basic, but you don’t want to sink to the level...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
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...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
