Renoir’s cats helped him cope with his rheumatoid arthritis

Renoir suffered from arthritis and he loved cats. They helped to ease the pain of his disease

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, …

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Minimalist cat art by Asian American artist Anita Yan Wong

Anita Yan Wong art work of a cat

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 …

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Jules Leroy Playful Kittens

Jules Leroy Playful Kittens

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 …

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