A Michael Broad Blog
You never quite know the formula for becoming an internet, social media sensation perhaps because there is no formula. But, Phil Heckels’s questionable skills as an artist have caught the imagination of the public. With a pinch of salt, he amusingly calls himself an “acclaimed artist” but he is taking the Mickey out of …
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 …
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 …
Portrait de Jeune Femme Tenant un Chat by Michael The translation is a portrait of a young woman holding a cat. I guess most visitors would deduce that! Bacchiacca Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons This is an oil painting by Francesco Bacchiacca created in 1525, which makes it an early painting showing a domestic …
Portrait of Cleophea Holzhalb by Michael Portrait of Cleophea Holzhalb Portrait of Cleophea Holzhalb is dated 1538. This is an early date to see a painting with a domestic cat featured so prominently. It is interesting for that reason. The artist, Hans Asper, is not well known. He was Swiss and he lived to …
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 …
Chartreux cat of 1747 by Michael Portrait of Magdaleine Pinceloup de la Grange, née de Parseval In this painting of 1747 by Jean-Baptiste Perronneau, Portrait of Magdaleine Pinceloup de la Grange, née de Parseval, you see a nice grey cat. It immediately struck me that the appearance of the cat reminded me of the …
Fleurs et chats by Pierre-Auguste Renoir by Michael Fleurs et chats by Pierre-Auguste Renoir This is another oil painting by Renoir, painted in 1881, when Renoir was 40 years of age. I have just written about his painting Julie Manet with a cat. This painting was made 6 years earlier. The question for me …
