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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...
66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
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...
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...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
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,...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
This little piggy went to the guggenheim
Oh say can you see
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
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...
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...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
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...
‘We came here to praise traditional art history survey textbooks, not to bury...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
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...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
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...
Don't panic, it's organic
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
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,...
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
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 ...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
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...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
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...
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...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
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,...
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...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
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...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Pucker up
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...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
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...
Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
What happens when you add a fat cat to some of the world’s most famous artworks?...
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...
Ever wondered about Marie Antoinette’s penchant for roses? Or why Frida Kahlo liked...
Meat blender
Also a Girl with a Pearl Earring. But not that one
He's seen some stuff
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
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...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
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...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
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...
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
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...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
What filter is that?
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
It’s March Madness and while many fans obsess over their carefully-designed...
Careful, might make you howl!
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Without further ado, we call this post’s drink the Figure with Meat Whiskey Neat ‘N...
And that rhymes awww yiss!Sometimes in art, the clothes the figures are wearing are...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
If you're still unsure about your Halloween costume, let us give you 25 ( plus...
It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
It’s nice to see, however, that his latest project (the “Journel (sic) of...
Sigourney Weaver's problem
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
Tummy ache?
Sacred moment made earthly and intimate
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Not your mother's art
Back before the sh*t hit the fan
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Never forget
Mining doesn’t cause death
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
Hippest place in Brighton
Sunset at Montmajour by Vincent van Gogh Pronunciation: /tro͞oˈvī/ Lauren helps...
Sleeping Venus by Eustache Le Sueur
Maman by Louise Bourgeois
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
Negev by Magdalena Abakanowicz at The Israel Museum
Corridor Pin, Blue by Claes Oldenburg
