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Friday, 12 October 2007

Inspiring Cats | Cats in Art

Cat drawing

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Botticelli Cat

Now, if that's not inspiring -- or inspired -- cat art, I don't know what is. Cat rising from the sea. Indeed.

Or perhaps you prefer the Roman tradition:

Buonarroti Cat

Heh. One of the finer images of the goddess, I'd say.

Both of these, and many more, are at this intriguing site.

Then we have the Foreclosure Cats:

More than 60 "Foreclosure Cats," who gained public notice after being abandoned by an evicted man, have been rescued, given medical care and placed with foster families. Each cat or kitten is being tested, vaccinated, spayed or neutered, and microchipped. Now they're ready to share a lifetime of love and companionship with their forever families.

-- here are two of them:

tuxedo cat portrait   cat pouncing on mouse

That's fuzzy, by Alyssa Hemsath Mooney and frankie, by Laura Jacobsen. You can help support them (the cats, I mean) by purchasing some of the art at the Foreclosure Cats CafePress Shop.

Both of these felines in art discoveries are courtesy Prairie Mary, who -- for some unfathomable reason -- sent me the links.

And here we have an artistic rendition of Spike, made with Picnik:

tabby cat sketch from photo

For more inspiring felines, go to:

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this is excellent. there can never be too many paintings of kitties.

i think my favorite was whistler's kitty...

http://www.dsa.unipr.it/giavelli/GATTI_arte/whistler.jpg

hehhe

It has taken me a week to respond to this post, sorry about that. And nearly 10 visits later and a growing inspiration from your article more art can be found at http://www.petmonologues.com/pet022207/?p=450

OK, it's your turn. ;-)

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