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Jules Leroy Playful Kittens

PoC avatarPosted on April 25, 2022 by Michael BroadMay 10, 2022

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 … Continue reading →

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Leonardo da Vinci was crap at drawing cats

PoC avatarPosted on July 22, 2021 by Michael BroadJuly 22, 2021

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 … Continue reading →

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Who was Louis William Wain?

PoC avatarPosted on July 12, 2021 by Michael BroadJuly 12, 2021

Louis William Wain (1860-1939) was a talented artist who is famous for his anthropomorphic cats which were regularly clothed and which were often found on greeting cards and in satirical illustrations. He was a prolific artist whose work was not … Continue reading →

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Transforming your cat into a woman

PoC avatarPosted on July 10, 2021 by Michael BroadJuly 10, 2021

Although Wikipedia makes no mention whatsoever of Marc Chagall’s love of cats, they play a major part in many of his paintings. They are shown as companions and symbolic of women and domesticity according to one specialist. It seems that … Continue reading →

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Cats In Advertising

PoC avatarPosted on September 12, 2020 by Michael BroadSeptember 12, 2020

Cats have been used extensively in advertising. A specific poster got me onto the subject. It is not strictly advertising in the sense that we know it but using a fierce black cat to promote the United States Tank Corps … Continue reading →

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Did Vincent van Gogh have a cat?

PoC avatarPosted on July 27, 2020 by Michael BroadJune 28, 2021

Today is a good day to ask whether Vincent van Gogh had a cat because on this day in 1890, Vincent van Gogh shot himself once in the chest. He was aged 37 and it took him two days to … Continue reading →

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Girl with a Kitten by Lucian Freud

PoC avatarPosted on June 26, 2020 by Michael BroadJune 26, 2020

From time to time I like to write about cats in paintings. This is one by Lucian Freud which he completed between 1948 and 1949. The painting shows Kitty Garman (1926-2011) holding a cat. Freud was married to Kitty between … Continue reading →

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Cat Sculpture by Grayson Perry

PoC avatarPosted on June 1, 2020 by Michael BroadJune 1, 2020

This is a photograph of Grayson Perry’s sculpture of a cat which he has uploaded to Twitter hours ago. I have no idea what it signifies if anything. It is grand and important. There appears to be a very large … Continue reading →

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The sex symbolism behind the cat in Hockney’s Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy

PoC avatarPosted on January 13, 2020 by Michael BroadJanuary 13, 2020

The all-white cat gazing out of the balcony doors to the exterior, in David Hockney’s painting Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy, is sitting on Mr Clark’s lap in a peculiar and uncomfortable way. The cat is meant to be … Continue reading →

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Édouard Manet loved cats and many of his letters have small sketches of cats

PoC avatarPosted on November 10, 2019 by Michael BroadJune 8, 2020

This is a little bit of cat trivia. It is not going to change the world but it is quite interesting nonetheless to people who like cats. Édouard Manet, a French modernist painter of the 19th century, was ‘a pivotal … Continue reading →

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