English paintings, English art
Few would argue if we said that pets are an endless source of joy and happiness in our lives. Therefore, there is no surprise people are trying to immortalize them in every way possible. This Aussie painter, Vanessa Stockard, found the best way to do that by sneaking her three adorable cats, Kevin The Kittin, his mom Fluff Ferstenberg and the head of the adorable fluff family, Satan, into her paintings. Stockard’s process includes pieces developed without visual reference but rather from memory. These narratives incorporate domestic pets such as cats and dogs, juxtaposing the anthropomorphic nature of these animals are given by society, she infuses the personification of virtue and vice into the everyday canine and feline status quo. Cats with their fluffy comical exteriors yet instinctual urge to kill and a tendency to be cruel to their prey, dogs with their providence of happiness and friendship flung back to Churchill’s metaphor for depression. Despite this not-so -cheerful description of her works, Stockard manages to make her art somehow quirky and very enjoyable!
Risograph cat.
The "Merchant’s Daughter” by Mizuno Toshikata (1866-1908). Based on a Japanese fairy-tale called the “cat guardian” or “the story of the faithful cat”. The young daughter of a rich wine merchant in Osaka, was constantly followed around by the family’s tom-cat. The father, thinking that the tom-cat had fallen in love with his daughter and planned to bewitch her, determined to kill the cat at the first opportunity. However, the cat appeared to his master in a dream, telling him that it was a giant rat living in his granary which was in love with his daughter, and that the cat was following the young girl to protect her. The cat told his master that he was no match for the rat by himself, but there was a famous cat named Buchi (Spots, Speckles or Mottles) that his master should borrow and that the two cats would defeat the monster rat. The master did as the cat asked, both cats went into the granary and fought a fierce battle with the monster rat, and although the rat was killed, both cats were so badly injured that they died from their wounds. The two cats were buried with honours in the neighbouring temple, and the family still celebrated the death of the valiant cat one hundred years after the event. (see: www.archive.org/stream/talesofoldjapan00redeuoft#page/252...)
https://ru.pinterest.com/pin/494973815281627003/ Shozo Ozaki https://ru.pinterest.com/pin/335799715943145174/ https://ru.pinterest.com/pin/390194755202773094/ https://ru.pinterest.com/pin/390194755202773060/ https://ru.pinterest.com/pin/390194755202773078/…
Few would argue if we said that pets are an endless source of joy and happiness in our lives. Therefore, there is no surprise people are trying to immortalize them in every way possible. This Aussie painter, Vanessa Stockard, found the best way to do that by sneaking her three adorable cats, Kevin The Kittin, his mom Fluff Ferstenberg and the head of the adorable fluff family, Satan, into her paintings. Stockard’s process includes pieces developed without visual reference but rather from memory. These narratives incorporate domestic pets such as cats and dogs, juxtaposing the anthropomorphic nature of these animals are given by society, she infuses the personification of virtue and vice into the everyday canine and feline status quo. Cats with their fluffy comical exteriors yet instinctual urge to kill and a tendency to be cruel to their prey, dogs with their providence of happiness and friendship flung back to Churchill’s metaphor for depression. Despite this not-so -cheerful description of her works, Stockard manages to make her art somehow quirky and very enjoyable!
https://ru.pinterest.com/pin/494973815281627003/ Shozo Ozaki https://ru.pinterest.com/pin/335799715943145174/ https://ru.pinterest.com/pin/390194755202773094/ https://ru.pinterest.com/pin/390194755202773060/ https://ru.pinterest.com/pin/390194755202773078/…
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