A Michael Broad Blog
Banksy – a street artist and political activist – has been busy. Several of his stencilled images have popped up around London recently, the latest of which at 12th August 2024, the date of this post, was yesterday. It is a large black cat. To me it looks like a domestic cat stretching but …
A highly anticipated CAT ART SHOW 2024 is currently at the Yuan Ru Art Center, Bellevue, WA, featuring PNW cat artists of many mediums: oil, acrylic, sculpture, photography, video, ink. Come meet the artists at the opening reception on June 15 from 2-4 pm! Location Special performances with a cat inspired ballet dance and …
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, …
Ai Weiwei is a very well-known contemporary artist from China who has been banished from his country as he’s been condemned as a ‘rightist’. He has said and done the wrong things and been outcast. In 2011 he disappeared for 81 days in a Chinese prison. And he has spent four years under house …
This is a topic that interests me: how artists of the mediaeval era depicted domestic cats in their paintings. And I’m sure that they felt that they were painting an accurate representation of the domestic cat before them. But by today’s standards they are quite poor for one reason: they humanised them. They painted …
These are just plain creepy. Creepypasta comes to mind. They were brilliantly set up and taken by a very clever photographer who I believe is the cat’s caregiver. They have a very mysterious mood. But at this time, I don’t know the photographer’s name. The photos come from a much-retweeted tweet on Twitter. Someone …
This is Leonardo da Vinci’s (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) Study of the Madonna and Child with a Cat, 1478. It is nice that he has a domestic cat in the picture. However, in every drawing of cats by the master, he has botched it. He simply could not get it right. …
Louis William Wain (1860-1939) was a talented artist who is famous for his anthropomorphic cats which were regularly clothed and which were often found on greeting cards and in satirical illustrations. He was a prolific artist whose work was not confined to wide-eyed humanized cats and kittens because he also drew country scenes and …
