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Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
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Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
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Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
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…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
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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...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
Sad but true
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
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...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
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Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
In any fictional crime show, the detective walks into a scene full of chaos....
At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
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...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
Oh say can you see
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Every night with you is a Starry Night, Valentine. (By Vincent van Gogh at the...
In the final season of BoJack Horseman, paying attention to the art in the...
The Kiss is all I’ve ever wanted from you, Valentine. (By Gustav Klimt at the...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
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The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
A stiff upper lip
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
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I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
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Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Sweet summer is on the horizon and here at the Sartle office we’re already making...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
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“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Happy International Selfie Day! Thanks to DJ Rick McNeely - of Fishbowl...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
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...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
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I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
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Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
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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....
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Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
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Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
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From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
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Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
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Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
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Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
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Careful, might make you howl!
Who's the leader of the club that's made for you and me? M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E!
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Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
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The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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Could be an ad for a Life Alert commercial
Bringing the inside out
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In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
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Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...
Drunk in love we be all nightAnyway, we made a quiz on Buzzfeed and it’s...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Not Yosemite again, dad!
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
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Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Mining doesn’t cause death
Down in the valley, the valley so low. Hang your head over, hear the wind blow
I Spy: Lichtenstein edition
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
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It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...
Need a gift to delight/impress your art-loving friend/S.O./sibling/parent, or...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Never forget
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
