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 …
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 …
“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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
