What affects us affects cats
Banksy – a street artist and political activist – has been busy. Several of his stencilled images have popped up around London recently, the latest of which at 12th August 2024, the date of this post, was yesterday. It is a large black cat. To me it looks like a domestic cat stretching but …
A highly anticipated CAT ART SHOW 2024 is currently at the Yuan Ru Art Center, Bellevue, WA, featuring PNW cat artists of many mediums: oil, acrylic, sculpture, photography, video, ink. Come meet the artists at the opening reception on June 15 from 2-4 pm! Location Special performances with a cat inspired ballet dance and …
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the French Impressionist artist, had a deep affection for cats. His feline companions played a significant role in his life and art. It was a nice symbiotic relationship as is always the case. RELATED: Why Do Artists Love Cats? Cats in His Paintings: Renoir’s Health and Cats: Renoir suffered from rheumatoid arthritis, …
This is an interesting piece of ‘sculpture’. I would call it that. And it is impressive. Really a work of art. This has the appearance of a male lion because of the mane. And here is another work of art, a leopard made from discarded metal nuts and washers.
Anita Yan Wong is an Asian American Women Artist best known for her expressive brush strokes and unique style of “Contemporary Traditional” paintings that defies tradition and modernity. The artist, who taught at UC Berkeley S.F. extension California in recent years, is a 4th generation Lingnan painter (which originated in southern China in the …
The answer to the question in the title is a definite yes. At one stage (at least) he lived with a Siamese cat. He was a cat lover and many of his paintings include a cat. What got me interested in this topic is the story in The Times today entitled “Picasso with cat …
Jules Le Roy was a French artist, a painter. He was born in 1856 and died aged 66 in 1922. He painted in oils and watercolors and specialized in figures of animals preferring cats and kittens. He must have been an ailurophile (a cat lover) and probably lived with cat companions. Many artists like …
This is Leonardo da Vinci’s (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) Study of the Madonna and Child with a Cat, 1478. It is nice that he has a domestic cat in the picture. However, in every drawing of cats by the master, he has botched it. He simply could not get it right. …
