Showing posts with label art exhibition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art exhibition. Show all posts

Friday, December 30, 2022

2023 Fat Cat Art Calendar

So excited to get this in the mail,

Artist Svetlana Petrova has the incredible talent to improve artwork with her beautiful, photogenic cats Celestial Zarathustra, Tyger, and David Bowie. 
Tyger, in the vase, as Celestial Zarathustra watches.

David Bowie as pussy willow fluffs!

Zarathustra in a Paul Gauguin's 1892 "When Will You Marry?"

Look!
Celestial Zarathustra was playing in Vincent van Gogh's 1888 "Artist's Chair"...

...and I was standing in front of the unimproved version just a few days ago at the "Van Gogh in America" exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts!

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Disclaimer: 
I purchased 2023 Fat Cat Art calendar for my personal use.
I only post about items that I believe others will enjoy, and for no financial gain for myself.

Friday, December 04, 2020

Claude Monet's Cats

Claude Monet
14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926
A founder of French Impressionist Painting

Obviously, such a talent would have a cat or two as his muse.

Except, I can find only ONE painting of a cat that he completed!

Pastel
Mid to late 1860's
"Cat Sleeping on Bed"
Image from the interwebs
However, there was this sweet kitty...
Glazed Bisque Cat Statue
Owned by Claude Monet
Image from the interwebs
Claude Monet positioned this statue to appear as if it was curled up on a pillow on his dining room couch, so his family reported.

So, what to make of this apparent HUGE HOLE is his artistic endeavors?

Well...I dunno.

I admire his art, and will travel a good distance to visit an art museum that has his paintings on display.

It's just too bad he didn't paint more cats...

Jigsaw Puzzle

I artified with Lunapic!
Click on the image to play.

Monday, September 24, 2018

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Thank you all for the Blogoversary wishes!

Sorry that Paddy O'Malley's video was messed up...
it's all fixed now!

On Friday, September 21, my friend Beth and I drove from Detroit to Cleveland, Ohio, to visit the Cleveland Museum of Art.  We attended the Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors exhibition.  The Infinity Mirrors is a kind of performance art; most of the displays were mirrored rooms, that one stood inside and had the lights and artwork reflected back and forth, out to nothingness.  While I'll admit that modern art isn't my cup of tea, being a part of something that the one doesn't just observe but also takes part in, is quite fun!

This is a permanent display of
Yoyoi Kusama's art at the museum

Was like being in outer space!

Okay...it was a bit creepy, but interesting at the same time!

In this room, every visitor was given a page of dot stickers,
and we were instructed that we weren't allowed to leave until
we'd stuck all of our stickers in this room!
We couldn't stick them to ourselves, or the employees...
however...

Beth stacked her stickers into a face, while I searched for white space
to stick down my dots.  It was much more fun than you'd think!
After a delightful lunch in the museum cafe', we headed out to visit the rest of the museum:

Ancient Egyptian Cat coffin

Yep, that's George Washington!

One of Monet's Water Lilies

A Pollock
(I love Pollock!)

Tiffany Lamp
Selfie of Beth and I in front of
Warhol's "Marilyn x 100"
Seriously, we only saw two cats in the whole museum, and both were in the Ancient Egyptian area.  C'mon, Cleveland!  We know there are lots of cat lovers there; get some more cat art!  Sheesh!