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cats paint Well maybe, I've known some strange and quirky cats in my time, The father of one of my smartest cats trained himself to use the toilet, He was a big, muchdecorated champion Sealpoint Siamese, I once accidentally walked in on Tom in the bathroom, perched on the toilet seat faced with his huge, indignant blue eyes, I backed out quickly, instinctively saying 'Oh, I'm so sorry!!'

I suspect the fourpawed Twelve Major Artists might have had a little help from their twolegged gallery managers, however there is no doubt that sitelinkHeather Busch and sitelinkBurton Silver are among the most talented cat photographers and cat interpreters of this generation.


Cat love aside, it is as commentary on the contemporary human art world that sitelinkWhy Cats Paint: A theory of feline aesthetics really shines.


For example, let's take this fine, groundbreaking or perhaps, fiberbreakingth Century work from Nebraskaborn, Parisbased Homo sapiens artist, Sheila Hicks:



Art in America, reviewing herPhiladelphia ICA retrospective writes:

"The largest pieces can be arranged in a variety of configurations, depending on the architectural context, while smaller works possess a cannily unfinished look, as though they are selfdestructing in loose threads and open crevices.
Throughout, one senses the processbased milieu of 's PostMinimalism in which the artist came of age, The amorphousseeming mound of compacted saffroncolored linen and wool in Banisteriopsisthat's the one in the picture, for example, has affinities with contemporary works by Eva Hessewho attended Yale, like Hicks, in the 's.
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Fortunately, Busch and Silver transcend not only educational, cultural and national biases their insightful commentary makes the works of contemporary Felis domesticus artists accessible to all of us.
While they concentrate their review on Felis domesticus masters who work in paint, they pay due homage to other artists, who like Hicks and Hesse, choose to work in fiberseven if they have not attended Yale.


Consider this form of feline artistic expression, 'Orifice':

image error TOTALLY HILARIOUS, At first glance this book actually appears to be a serious scholarly or academic work, It includes chapters on the history and theories of feline “marking behavior”, major cat artists portrait painters, abstract expressionists, reductionists, etc.
, and especially the use and value of titles, P.“Without them, we run the risk of dismissing cat painting as no more relevant than the mindless territorial daubing of the graffitist.
” Pagediscusses the serious problem of cats who are not given access to paint, thus forced to continue with soft sculpture,
On pagethe author tells of a cat artist who, when her work was completed satisfactorily she urinated, Many human artists, surely, will relate to this, There is also extensive discussion of other forms of artistic expression sculpture and scratch forms, aesthetic clawing, accentuation and installations some involving dead animals!.

Thispage coffeetable sized paperback book also includes great photos of the cat artists at work and some interesting examples from ancient and medieval art or Victorian ads.

As much as I love cats, I can't see myself encouraging my cats to paint although some of these cats' paintings sell for thousands of dollars.
It was also hard for me to tell if the tone of this book was serious or if it was a spoof.
I just wonder how the cats can clean the paint off themselves and not get sick, holy fucking shit i can't believe this book is real or serious but it is BOTH, the photos are so amazing and i can't even imagine what kind of batshit crazy lady the author is, highly recommended. THIS BOOK IS AMAZING, THE THINGS CATS DO WHEN THEY PAINT ARE AWESOME, I TRIED SOME WITH MY CAT AND ONLY GOT HER PAW PRINTS BUT IT WAS COOL TO TRY,, I LOVED THIS BOOK SO MUCH ITS A KEEPER! CATS AND ALL ANIMALS ARE SIMPLY AMAZING! Amazingly wonderful.
The book has a sort of hallucinatory shimmer you won't know, and likely will never know, whether cats really paint.
I think some do . I should pull out my copy and write a full review, Actually, you can just go to Hanna's, with sample photos: sitelink goodreads. com/review/show
Just added to my "Best Ever" list, as a spur to pull it out for reread!

Here's my review of the companion volume, equally good, WHY PAINT CATS: sitelink sfsite. com/b/wp. htm Both mustread/views, for catlovers! A brilliant and well referenced scholarly treatise on the feline aesthetic which includes brief biosketches of a dozen contemporary painters.
It also includes a brief section on the more traditional media including upholstery, miniblinds, and dead rodents, Notably absent is bezoar art, This is a book that must be shared, It's too clever and fun not to, and folk will want to know why you suddenly burst out laughing while reading it! What a fabulous way to learn art theory, especially for cat lovers.


Bootsie, TransExpressionist is my personal favorite, "Bootsie, b., uses a vigorous, sometimes aggressive style to explore his inner feelings and perceptions, " I love the description of how he puts paint on canvas with vigorous and rhythmic strokes, while displaying a high level of engagement by either purring or even yowling "menacingly at the canvas.
" This is one of the best satires on modern art that I've ever read, The authors use the exact same pretentious language to describe "Fluffy's" efforts at filling space with his marks that I've read in so many books on modern artists.
The only thing they left out was political correctness, I guess cats aren't interested in Social Justice, Sexual Orientation or Racial Identity,

I guess because the authors never wink throughout the book, some people take it seriously, They don't ask themselves how the writers of the book know the thoughts and motivations of an animal,

Here's an example:

"The typical pose of a cat when sitting at a Point of Harmonic Resonance: the eyes are slightly closed and the cat will generally purr and may rock gently back and forth.


Almost all cats that paint spend at least ten minutes in resonance prior to commencing a work, which suggests they derive some inspiration power from these invisible low frequency force fields.
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Here's another one:

Misty's popularity as a painter is due mainly to the figurative nature of her images.
The elegant, bicolored forms that sometimes extend up to ten meters in length, are immediately evocative and invite a wide range of projective interpretations.
In a recent work, A Little Lavish Leaping, the surface is heavily built up with short black verticals to produce an elongated curvilinear mass that is at once dense yet strongly nuanced with movement.


Tension gathers at the base and builds upwards, flowing to a release in the upper ovoidal form,

Man, I wish I could write like that, I'm not even sure they're using real words, Wonderful, erudite, and potentially sidesplitting exposition on the world of cat art, The authors provide historical context back to the Egyptians, of course, then move through the ages to the present day to provide "moving" portraits of several international feline "artistes".
These young and some retired tabbies are shown with their artwork, in the act of creation, their paws at the ready, paint trays at their feet.
These individuals are linked to human schools !!

For the serious minded, a theory of feline art is provided.
The only thing that would dim the brightness of this book would be to learn that it is indeed serious! I guess I can become more of a crazy cat lady, not crazy enough for this! Very good fiction can transcend nonfiction, and this book shows this for the genre of art criticism.


“Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy, " Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut

I really wanted to believe this was real, This book is an elaborate joke mocking how art criticism could add value to the most thoughtless, accidental and fabricated method of painting.
Some references do not exist and some of the smaller statements are clearly false, . . like the hypnotic cow companion of one the cat painters, . . This was made before the internet was much good, so early readers would be fooled as I think some reviewers are here.


What makes this nonsense still worth reading is that, within itself, it laughably makes sense, I think it's better than some real art criticism, The genres of cat art could be applied to real art quite easily, and however fabricated these examples are they do demonstrate the differences in approaches to painting.
In short, this book is as useful as a retelling of a particularly interesting dream, in that although it is not based in reality, it is more thoughtful and enjoyable and useful

to the viewer than some things that are!.