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Anita Yan Wong art work of a cat

Minimalist cat art by Asian American artist Anita Yan Wong

Anita Yan Wong is an Asian American Women Artist best known for her expressive brush strokes and unique style of “Contemporary Traditional” paintings that defies tradition and modernity. The artist, who taught at UC Berkeley S.F. extension California in recent years, is a 4th generation Lingnan painter (which originated in southern China in the late …

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Ai Weiwei with 2 of his 3 cats. These 2 are Shadow a black cat and Yellow the ginger tabby and white. The 3rd is Half

Brilliant, compassionate Ai Weiwei loves cats and finds them more interesting than humans

If you are a cat lover this article should both interest and please you in equal measure. Please don’t skim it and please read to the end as the last bit is the best ?✔️?. Ai Weiwei is a very famous contemporary artist and an activist. He was and is openly critical of the Chinese …

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Ai Weiwei marble toilet roll and playful cat

Contemporary artist Ai Weiwei provides an insight into how he works with the help of cat behaviour

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 arrest. …

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Cats in art installation in Denver backstreet

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 for …

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Matisse and his cat kitten. The photograph is copyright Robert Capa of Magnum

Why Do Artists Love Cats?

In my view, the reason why artists love cats is because cats are self-contained. They are a very reliable companion to a person who needs to focus intensely on his art, and who may be selfish and obsessive. The cat is probably a better companion than a person under these circumstances.


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