Tuesday, 19 April 2011

Woof, meow, paw

Whilst googling 'cat paintings', I have noticed a new(?) and exciting movement in art...The transformation of household pets (cats & dogs) as famous artists, writers or injected into famous works of art. There are a number of artists who sell these prints/paintings online or on etsy.

Here are some prints I like from Chet Phillips:


Clawed Monet

Edgar Allan Pug

Fido Dostoyevsky

Friday Kahlico


Oscar Wildecat

Jack Russell Kerouac
Truman Catpote
Look at lots more here: http://www.etsy.com/shop/chetart?section_id=6015797&page=1

Sunday, 17 April 2011

cat pictures!

Meow meow! 18 sleeps til i see the kitty cats at home in Aus (after 2 years!)





Enjoi - Itty Bitty Kitty



Halle in the garden in Melbourne xx

Tuesday, 5 April 2011

Watership Down - not just cute bunnies..

Watership Down, written by Richard Allen, is a story about group of rabbits trying to find a home. "Watership Down may be treated as an allegory. Thus, the trials and triumphs of Hazel and his comrades mirror the timeless struggles between tyranny and freedom, reason and blind emotion, and the individual and the corporate state. Similarly, each rabbit combines in his or her personality many of the virtues and vices that make humans so complex—and interesting. Despite the almost constant tension that permeates the book, Watership Down reaffirms the positive evolution of human society, and at its conclusion, right predictably triumphs over might." (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Fiction Series, Magill, 1991)

INLE, 100 Artists Interpret the Anti-hero of Richard Adam’s Watership Down is on view at Los Angeles’s Gallery 1988 Melrose. The following are a few picks from about 120 original works:



Christian Rexx Van Minnen


Dan May


Jen Lobo


Jeremy Fish


Josh Keyes


Mike Stilkey
 

Shawn Barber
 

Tony Curran