These fluffy cats are some of the most intricate drawings you’ll ever see
This is the art of Kamwei Fong. He is a smart guy and he lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Below I have embedded two images and two videos from his Instagram account.
Cats in Art
22,000 toothpicks create a cat picture
A high school in the Chiba Prefecture of Japan created a large picture (sculpture?) of the head of a white cat using 22,000 toothpicks. It was a large undertaking which took 5 months of work and a scientific and well organised approach. It works well. Simply click on the video to get it started …
Domestic cat teased by Christ’s suffering as symbolised by a goldfinch
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 …
Why there are hundreds of cats off the ground in a Denver alley?
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 …
Mediaeval cat paintings: ugly anthropomorphized depictions
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 …
Photographer recreates Philippe Halsman’s Dali Atomicus without the cats
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. …
Boucher La Toilette
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 …
Art Students in Japan Made a Giant Cat Head
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) …
