How do you improve the Mona Lisa? This is the world’s most famous painting – the world’s most valuable painting. It is almost priceless. It could be worth as much as $720 million. It was painted between 1503 and 1506 by Leonardo da Vinci. The subject is believed to be the wife of Francesco del …
LOL cats are so ubiquitous to those of us who use the Internet that it is hard to imagine an Internet without them. Yet, it is a fairly recent phenomenon and one with a naturally limited lifespan, in my opinion, because it is a form of entertainment. All entertainment is fickle and very much …
Cats in paintings are pictures of cats and that is why they are on this website. There are some very interesting uses of the domestic cat, and of the wild cat in paintings, by well known and lesser known artists. There is some very good art of cats by people who are not strictly artists …
by Michael Porträt der Mademoiselle Julie Manet mit Katze This is a portrait of Julie Manet with a cat. It is by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) the celebrated French artist who was a leading light in the development of the style of painting called “Impressionism”. The painting was made in 1887. At this time Renoir …
by Michael (London, UK) William Hogarth – The Distressed Poet….I am interested in this painting because I have driven past Hogarth’s country residence many times. The interesting point is that it is no longer in the country but firmly inside what might be called central London on the A4 going west towards Heathrow airport. …
I consistently see the Anthropomorphism of wild cats and domestic cats in old drawings and paintings. Anthropomorphism (try and spell that!) is the attribution of human characteristics to animals etc. as you probably know. And these are not cartoon cats or an attempt to have a joke as they come from a serious work. …
At 21st March 2009, the painting, Kinderbild (Katze hinter einem Baum) or “Children’s painting (cat behind a tree),” by Fritz Marc has been returned to the heirs of the previous owner, Alfred Hess, by the Lower Saxony Landesbank NordLB. Hess’s collection had been sold cheaply during the period of the Third Reich. I presume …
Franz Marc –Three Cats Three Cats was made in 1913. It is Oil on canvas. It’s size is: 72 x 102 cm. The German artist, Franz Marc, was a talented expressionist painter who struggled to find his style and when he had he was cruelly killed like so many men of his generation in …
