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Mrs Magpie said:
Ah, thanks. At first I wondered whether it could be the portrait by Gustave Courbet, but clearly not. Paul Brason can paint a good cat within a portrait, but I have no idea who painted that picture I'm afraid.
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Oh. As it was just on a greeting card, I have no idea if it is famous. Here it is:


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Anyone recognise?
 
It's an interesting thread this. It does sort of suggest that before the 20th century, humans just didn't have the same view of cats as cute pets.
 
I can't see moose's pics either....I used my super-moderator's x-ray vision, and the link is there with the image tags so I suspect the gallery have done something sneaky because they don't like hot-linking.
 
This thread is cool, cheers for all of the media.

For years, I have wanted to do/see an abstract piece of art which may be of a cat, or it may suggest a cat. It may be a pattern, it may be a picture. The image isn't clear in my mind's eye.
I've googled with relevant keywords, but nothing has come, yet. When I see it I will know.
What I am sure of is that it will catch the movements of a cat, so will have flowing and wavy lines. It may have curly lines, like the end of ocopus tentacles, or a seahorse tail. It may have rythm and reverberation, in a geometric way, like the sea creatures tails. The cat's purr, and its vibrating musclature, is a physical, and sonic expression of this rythym.
It may capture the connection between cats and snakes.
I haven't yet been able to come up with one, as these things are the type of images which just "come to" you.

This thread is cool, because it has let me put in words, a cat/visual art connecton I have had in my head for years, so I thank this thread and its poster's.
 
blueplume said:
Right, but also in other spots!
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This is my photo of the one I saw. I can't tell if it's the same one as yours, due to the difference in angles.

I love this image. It has special significance for me as I saw it last year not long after losing a very beloved cat - this was like coming across him in angelic, graffitti form! :o:o
 
Oh well, if we're getting into graffiti, there's a very good Crystal Palace cat. Quite a few sprang up a few years ago, but they've been gradually getting painted over. I'll have to see if I can find one remaining one to snap.
 
It's an interesting thread this. It does sort of suggest that before the 20th century, humans just didn't have the same view of cats as cute pets.
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Yeah. Plus they were a bit unlucky in the artists they got. Horses got Stubbs, dogs got Landseer and cats got- not much. Henrietta Ronner (1821-1909), for one, doesn't look a great artist:
http://www.myartprints.co.uk/UK/artist/Henrietta-Ronner-Knip-3186.html

Of the great artists, I think we mentioned Delacroix. But he likes them less in themselves than as miniature tigers.
 
Not normally considered a great artist, but the pictures you've posted are very good.

Chardin is more what I call great. According to Kenneth Clark, who wrote a lovely book called Animals and Men, Chardin's cats are rendered with "malice". I don't see that all.
 
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