Cats in art

[Harold Shand]

What a post! You've done this before, haven't you?

Thanks especially for the Rembrandt and Gauguin. Apparently when Gauguin went to Tahiti, it wasn't at all the Rousseau-esque paradise it had been. Lots of alcoholism. I'm not sure we needed the guns and the germs.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Johann Friedrich Overbeck
http://cgfa.acropolisinc.com/o/p-overbeck1.htm

 

[Chris P Duck]

Another shout for Louis Wain ... 'The Man Who Drew Cats'

What I like about Louis Wain is that his drawings, hundreds of which appeared as as postcards, conveyed a window into British life immediately following the Victorian era. In later life his the style of his work changed dramatically as he began to suffer from schizophrenia.

This is one of my favourites, it comes from a set of six postcards each on a sporting theme. Here we can see 'our football match' complete with band, flags and a cat trying to cave another cats head in with a brick. Football hooliganism a modern thing ? ... this postcard is from 1907

 

[oryx]

That last Louis Wain pic is brilliant.

The two in the middle remind me of one of ours and the ginger tom next door but one. That's what they'd be doing if they got hold of any weapons........

There was a really good exhibition of his stuff in the Wandsworth Museum about five years ago.

 

[Stanley Edwards]

Gauguin

I like Guaguin

You Canadians don't always post up crap art.

 

[sim667]

Im really rather surprised no ones posted longcat yet.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Why do the goldfinches have to pull up their water in a little bucket? Is this an illustration to a story?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Which one?

How many of my Exs do you know?

 

[Bakunin]

Cool, I found a Da Vinci, which I wasn't expecting.

Study of the Madonna and Child with a cat c1478

This one's in the British Museum, apparently. It was never painted (or at least, no record of it).

As it happens, Leonardo Da Vinci was cat mad. He produced over twenty painting featuring cats during his career, belonged to a considerable number of mogs and is quoted as saying that:

'The smallest feline is a masterpiece'

A sentiment universally agreed with by every cat that ever lived, methinks.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

This is in the RA's Summer Exhibition - "Cowboy Joe from Mexico"

 

[bi0boy]

No Louis Wain on this thread yet?

 

[Chris P Duck]

try the previous page...

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Can't search within a thread at the moment, but anyways, apologies if these have featured before.

Renoir

Flemish School

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Manet

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Carl Larsson

 

[RoyReed]

Cats by Hokusai

 

[RoyReed]

Durer - Adam and Eve (cat detail)

 

[RoyReed]

Kuniyoshi - Cats suggested as the fifty-three stations of the Tokaido

 

[RoyReed]

Théophile Steinlen - Poster for Le Chat Noir cabaret

 

[RoyReed]

Fritz Capelari - Woman with Cat

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Théophile Steinlen - Poster for Le Chat Noir cabaret

I had that as a poster on my wall when I was a teenager.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Nathaniel Currier. Favourite Cat (detail).

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Cornelis Saftleven, A Cat Peeping Through a Fence.

 

[weltweit]

Am I allowed to post photos of cats to this thread?

*SNIP*

NO! This is cats in Art, and there are loads of other threads for photos of pet cats

OK

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Tacuina sanitatis (XIV century).

 

[trabuquera]

I trust everyone already knows about the imminent issuing of a book called "The Cat - 3500 years of the Cat in Art" - which will hopefully provide more fodder for this thread. (I've not seen it, don't know if it's any good, am not endorsing it commercially etc etc but there's more about it here...http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cat-3500-Years-Art/dp/1858945305/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1314025826&sr=8-1 ... and apologies if this looks like a plug, it really isn't.)

Brilliant pix on this thread today. Although, Mrs M, I'm not sure your XIVth-century artist guy had quite got the hang of it. Had he even SEEN a cat? that looks more like a cross between a bearcub and a monkey to me....

 

[quimcunx]

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Théophile Steinlen - Poster for Le Chat Noir cabaret

I have this in umbrella form! It's my most favouritest. But it is borked.

And for the thread.

 

[Stigmata]

 

[RoyReed]

Lots more medieval cat pics here.

 

[little_legs]

This one is cat Behemoth sits on the wall of Bulgakov's house in Kiev, he is one of the characters in Bulgakov's Master and Margarita.