It’d be interesting if someone could try and untangle the interpretation of this 16th century religious painting by Barocci containing a domestic cat. It is called ‘The Madonna of the Cat’ (La Madonna del Gatto). Please click on the image to see it in larger format. It opens a new tab or page so you …
Domestic cat teased by Christ’s suffering as symbolised by a goldfinch Read More »
This is another arresting cat picture. It certainly caught my eye. It looks cool and plausible – just. However it’s art and they are not real. Artist Kelly Monico installed the cats between 14th and 15th streets west of Larimer Street. The installation is part of “Between Us” The Downtown Denver Alleyways Project“. Funding for …
Why there are hundreds of cats off the ground in a Denver alley? Read More »
I’ve seen this before. It appears that painters in mediaeval times had a compulsion to depict both domestic and wild cats with human faces. Not only that, the faces are ugly. Almost every painting looks like a cat cartoon and the cat is anthropomorphised. I’m not sure whether it was deliberate to depict cats in …
Mediaeval cat paintings: ugly anthropomorphized depictions Read More »
Photography aficionados will remember the famous Philippe Halsman photograph taken in 1948 called “Dali Atomicus”. It is a surreal black-and-white photograph of very high quality and pictures Dali in mid-air as are all the other objects in the photograph including three cats which were thrown together with a bucket of water across the image. In …
Photographer recreates Philippe Halsman’s Dali Atomicus without the cats Read More »
This painting, La Toilette by François Boucher (1703–1770), has a cat in it – of course! The appearance of the cat is interesting to me. But first a bit about the painting. Boucher La Toilette François Boucher was French (born in Paris). He painted in what is called the Rococo style. This was decorative and …
A group of students at the Japan School of Wool Art have created a startlingly realistic, gigantic wool felt cat head that can be worn as a mask. The project was led by the students’ art teacher, Housetu Sato. What’s the point of this large, silver tabby-and-white (I bet they didn’t know that) cat …
I have just discovered the work of Steven Keiper Jr and I’d like to promote it. I want to promote his work because, through the struggles of a person close to me, I understand the difficulties with life that alcoholism presents. It makes life much harder – almost impossible sometimes. It makes life dangerous and …
Recovering Alcoholic Artist, Steve Keiper Jr., Creates Super Cat Portraits Read More »
Endre Penovac is a Serbian artist who dedicates his gorgeous watercolour and ink paintings to the much loved, humble cat. The black cat in the paintings is Boszi (meaning ‘witch’ in English). Some of the images below can be seen larger if you click on them. Use the back button to return here. The images …
Gorgeous watercolour and ink paintings dedicated to the domestic cat by Endre Penovac Read More »
“Virgin and Child with Cat”, a drawing, proves Leonardo da Vinci couldn’t draw cats It is near Christmas and I wondered if a cat was present in the stable when Jesus was born. I read that there is a story about this…ah I remember it. It is fictional and concerns the tabby M mark. How …
Here are some very interesting and superbly executed pictures of cats (and some other stuff!), by Polish artist Pawel Kuczynski, which convey a message . They are published here with his permission. They are very thoughtful. You may have to think about the artwork for a while to figure out the message. In the meantime I’ll …
Andrew Wyeth was an American realist painter famous for his painting “Christina’s World” (see below). The title was the idea of his wife Betsy James. She named all his paintings after their marriage as far as I know. Christina Olson was the subject in the painting. She had polio and was disabled. She was crawling …
An interesting painting dated 1667 but the date is incorrect because the painter lived 1616-1661. It is said to have been painted between 1640 and 1642. That isn’t the interesting bit; it’s the content. It appears to me that the peasant lady is feeding her cat in the exact same way that she would feed …
Gargoyles and grotesques are a form of holy decoration. Grotesques are both decorative and functional. Grotesques deflect water away from the building while gargoyles are part of the guttering – water from the gutter flows through the gargoyles mouth and away from the building. There are 112 grotesques and gargoyles (G & Gs) decorating Washington …
This is Utagawa Kuniyoshi’s “Cats suggested as the fifty-three stations of the Tokaido“. It seems that you can spell his name Kuniyoshi Utagawa. Perhaps someone can explain that. Utagawa Kuniyoshi was a master of the Japanese ukiyo-e style of making woodblock prints and paintings. He lived 1797-1861. The title is a reference to “The Tōkaidō …
Art is subjective. What I like, you might hate, which is fine. I like this cat painting. That said, I like most cat paintings! This one is by Rubina Latif. It was pinned on Pinterest and Rubina has kindly agreed to allow me to publish it here. She has a blog, where you can see …
