American artists painting cats. The image of a cat in art

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It's the most luxurious month outside, and therefore AdMe.ru I put together a big and fluffy March post.
All over our vast Earth, in every country, even the smallest, many artists are terribly fond of cats. They are touched by their habits, expressions on their faces and eyes. They lose their vigilance. And cats, playing on feelings, quietly and mercilessly steal hearts. Forever.

But you can enjoy beautiful works of art, imbued with love for these cunning faces.
AdMe.ru I have collected the most fluffy, warm collection of paintings from artists from different parts of the world, whose hearts have been stolen by cats.

Englishwoman Kim Haskins

Artist Kim Haskins was born in England. Kim primarily works with acrylic paints on cardboard or canvas. Her shaggy multi-colored cats with round eyes always bring wide smiles. It is impossible to forget these cute striped bunches. Kim's cats easily, even too easily, steal the hearts of many who look at them.

American artist Joy Campbell

American illustrator Joy Campbell lives in Winlock, Washington. He has been painting for over 30 years. Now he works in oil, and, of course, his favorite theme of the canvases is cats. Her cats are happy with life and self-sufficient. They lounge on sofas and tables, playfully look into people's eyes and completely control people's hearts.

Rihards Donskis, artist from Latvia

Rihards Donskis is an artist from Latvia who works under the name Apofiss. Richard creates atmospheric, slightly mystical illustrations where the cutest cats reign. Tender little eyes with a piercing expression on their faces win the love of the viewer at first sight.

Lithuanian artist Norville

Lithuanian artist Norvile (Norvile Dovidonyte, Nora) is the owner of the red-haired inspiration of Elvis. She loves to draw cats and create an inexhaustible source of good mood and kind smile. Nora creates a cozy, simple life, conveys the funny habits of cute animals. She has long and tenderly been in love with cats.

Vladimir Rumyantsev, artist from St. Petersburg

Vladimir Rumyantsev is a member of the St. Petersburg Union of Artists and the St. Petersburg Society of Watercolorists. He is a member of the Russian Union of Artists. His works are in museum collections in Russia, as well as in private collections in Germany, the USA, Great Britain, Finland and Sweden. His cats are romantic. They see angels, love flowers and the lyrical city on the Neva.

Japanese artist Makoto Muramatsu

Japanese artist Makoto Muramatsu creates incredible tenderness. Cute, velvet cats stole his heart long ago. And now they are stealing the hearts and souls of everyone who stops to admire the incredible cuteness of Makoto’s cats. Muramatsu tenderly describes each cute face and admires his soft pets. Romantic from the Land of the Rising Sun.

Moskvich Stepan Kashirin

Kashirin Stepan Vladimirovich was born in Moscow. He is a member of the UNESCO Federation of Artists. On his canvases, cats live like fluffy, warm people. They drive cars, have get-togethers, and have weddings. Stepan creates life situations filled with understandable and kind humor. Funny emotions are written on the faces of his cats.

A sad story about an artist who painted cats

Matroskin, Lepold, a kitten named Woof - all these cats, so beloved by us, owe their humanoid appearance to Louis William Wayne. It was this English artist who was the first to endow cats with human behavior and emotions.

Louis Wayne (1860-1939) had a cat, Peter, or more precisely, Peter the Great, named after our Emperor Peter the Great. Louis trained the cat to sit in front of a book with glasses on, as if he were reading, and to follow other simple commands. Louis did all this to entertain his wife, who was dying of cancer.

The miracle did not happen: the young woman died. But during this period, Louis made a lot of sketches of the cat, which became the basis for his future popularity. Starting at the age of 23, he painted almost only cats. At that time they did not yet walk on two legs and did not have human features, but a start had been made. Louis's drawings began to be published in books and magazines.

For us, as fans of cartoons, what is more interesting is that period of Louis Wayne’s work, which can be called “the erect cat.” It began in the last decade of the nineteenth century. Since then, the artist’s popularity has constantly grown; he painted up to six hundred cats a year.

Not every modern photographer can boast of such productivity, but Louis didn’t just press a button, but created masterpieces with pencil and brushes. He designed books, his illustrations were published in magazines, and he even made his own collection, “The Louis Wayne Yearbook.”

The decision of the English post office, which in 1902 allowed the image to be printed on one side of postcards, can be called an epoch-making event for cat lovers. Here Louis turned around completely. Postcards with his cats were popular then, but now they have become an object of hunting for collectors. Currently, their cost can be measured in tens of thousands of dollars.

Louis William Wayne's cats walk on their hind legs, wear suits, smoke, and play musical instruments. In general, they lead a normal social life.

“I take my sketchbook to a restaurant or any other busy place and just draw people in their usual cat poses, giving them as human features as possible. This gives my work a dual nature, and I consider them my best jokes.”

Louis Wayne not only painted cats, but also tried to help them. He was a member of all kinds of charitable societies that protect these tabby furries and even became president of the English National Cat Club.

But the artist’s life was not always joyful and cloudless. Louis was pathologically gullible and extremely imprudent. In the tenth years of the last century, he found himself on the brink of poverty, having invested all his money in some murky undertaking. In addition, Louis began to develop schizophrenia.

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Louis Wain (1860-1939) is a famous English artist. He is famous for drawing cats. At some point, his wife becomes very ill and he is forced to spend all his time at the bedside of his sick wife. To entertain her, he draws his pet cat in various funny poses and situations. The more severe the artist’s schizophrenia and alienation from the real world became, the more the images of cats in his paintings resembled fractals. And before the transition to fractals, cats, from being charming, increasingly become angry and disheveled.

A video in which you can clearly see how the myrlyks appear.
There are so many funny details in the drawings of the British artist Louis Wain that even just commenting on them, you can make up a story. For example, "Game of Cricket". I counted 36 characters there: athletes in full equipment, with cricket bats, spectators in the trees or at tables. The artist captured an unexpected moment of the game: the ball landed on one of the tables, breaking a plate of sandwiches and knocking over a sugar bowl and teapot. What a nuisance! The closer to the epicenter, the stronger the characters' emotions. Curiosity, confusion, fear, indignation are written on their... mustachioed faces. The entire honest company, with the exception of an unknown dog trying to break off its leash, consists of cats.

"Golf Game"
Wayne's other drawings also feature cats: taking sea baths, waltzing, golfing cats, jockey cats, football hooligans, musicians. As a rule, they are representatives of the wealthy class, which allows them to dress up in the latest fashion, indulge in social entertainment, enjoy opera arias, smoke cigars, and drink whiskey.
Wayne's early works are pleasant to look at, but his later ones (which, by the way, are valued much more highly) evoke conflicting feelings. Still admiring the artist’s skill, you suddenly notice that the cats’ faces have become angry. It was these late drawings that caught the eye at the 30th annual exhibition of “cat” art at the Chris Beatles Gallery in the fall. They came to a London gallery owner specializing in the work of Louis Wain after the wealthy psychiatrist from Dublin who owned them died.
It is not surprising that psychiatrists are interested in Wayne's work. For doctors, Wayne's cats have scientific value. They show how schizophrenia changes the artist's personality.
The first-born with a cleft lip, Louis was born into the family of a textile merchant in 1860. The boy's parents sent him to school late; instead of studying, he preferred to wander the streets of London. His classmates teased him. In his youth, to hide his defect, Louis grew a mustache, and soon a woman was found who appreciated his external and internal attractiveness. Emily was the governess of Louis' sisters and was 10 years older than her lover. The young couple got married in 1884, although the young man’s family did not approve of his choice. By that time, his father was no longer alive, and Louis had to take responsibility not only for his wife, but for his mother and five sisters. He began to earn money by drawing scenes from rural life for magazines.
Then Emily was diagnosed with breast cancer. To entertain his sick wife, Louis drew their black and white cat Peter: Peter sometimes wore glasses, sometimes he read a book like a man. These “stupid” sketches became the beginning of the famous cat epic. Dying Emily managed to rejoice for her husband. Success quickly came to him: the very first pictures of cats having fun at a ball, published in the Christmas issue of The Illustrated London News, were liked by both adults and children. Edwardian society was delighted.
In the 1890s, Wayne produced nearly 600 drawings annually. They were published in newspapers, magazines, children's publications, and on postcards. His first cats still looked like representatives of the animal world, but very soon he made them walk on their hind legs, grimace and gesticulate like humans. The artist used sketches made during observations of people for his drawings; it was difficult to find a field of activity or a situation in which he would not involve his anthropomorphic purrs.
The fashion for cats has swept the country. Never before have they been so beloved by the British. Moreover, Wayne not only glorified these animals, he became their patron and was twice elected chairman of the National Cat Fanciers Club. His "Winking Cat" and the three-pussy crest are still the club's emblems.
Material success, a pleasant consequence of popularity, gave Wayne the opportunity to provide for his family (the widowed artist lived under the same roof with his mother and sisters). But the First World War canceled the European fashion for pussy. The Americans showed interest, so he sent a large batch of ceramic “cubist” cats to the USA. The idea went down in the literal sense: the ship with the cargo was sunk by the Germans.
Money was becoming less and less, because Wayne did not take care of his savings. He had previously donated or sold his works for next to nothing, without thinking about copyright. Meanwhile, the sisters, none of whom ever married, needed support. The gentle brother was worried about them and at the same time suspected that they were robbing him. There is a line beyond which strange ideas turn into dangerous mania. Louis finally crossed it in 1924, attacking one of the sisters.
Those who today see in Wayne only a “cat person gone crazy” cite trichinosis, which can be carried by cats, as a possible cause of his madness. And experts, who do not exclude a connection between trichinosis and schizophrenia, help this version. Many are tempted to give the artist’s tragedy a dramatic, almost theatrical finality. They also write that his mind was damaged due to the fact that Louis hit his head hard when he fell out of the bus. Allegedly, the driver turned the steering wheel sharply, trying not to run over the cat on the road. Wayne suffered because of the creatures he adored all his life.
In a detailed version of the biography, it is reported that the artist was distinguished by oddities even in his youth (he was known as an eccentric) and that there was a predisposition to mental disorders in the Wayne family (one of the artist’s sisters went crazy at a young age). Louis was also locked up in an insane asylum. He would have died in that terrible bedlam for the poor, if not for fate in the guise of a talkative visitor: “You paint in the manner of Wayne!” - “I am Wayne...” Everyone who loved his work, the British Prime Minister and the royal family, joined the campaign to save the artist.
H.G. Wells, calling for money to be raised for Wayne, emphasized that three generations of Englishmen had grown up watching the artist’s drawings. It was difficult to find a nursery in the country where his reproductions would not hang on the walls. “He invented his own variety of cats, which had their own style, society, a whole cat world,” said the writer. “After Wayne, all English cats feel ashamed that they are not like his characters.”
The artist was transferred to a comfortable hospital, where he had a separate room. There he lived until his death in 1939. There is a short film from the 1930s in which a decently dressed gentleman pets a cat, then draws a round face on a large sheet of paper, reminiscent of the Cheshire Cat from Alice.

It's the most luxurious month outside, and that's why we've put together a big and fluffy March post.
All over our vast Earth, in every country, even the smallest, many artists are terribly fond of cats.

They are touched by their habits, expressions on their faces and eyes. They lose their vigilance. And cats, playing on feelings, quietly and mercilessly steal hearts. Forever.

But you can enjoy beautiful works of art, imbued with love for these cunning faces.
We have put together the fluffiest, warmest collection of paintings from artists from different parts of the world whose hearts have been stolen by cats.

Rihards Donskis, artist from Latvia

Englishwoman Kim Haskins

American artist Joy Campbell

Lithuanian artist Norville

Vladimir Rumyantsev, artist from St. Petersburg

Japanese artist Makoto Muramatsu

Moskvich Stepan Kashirin

Russian Valery Khlebnikov

Valery Ivanovich Khlebnikov was born in the city of Vyshny Volochek, Tver Region. Now lives in the Moscow region. Already at the age of three, little Valera drew his first picture. And it was, of course, a cat. His cats are like heavy, gentle giants. It's great to cuddle with such a cat and not have to worry about anything. Valery's works are full of humor, kindness and warmth.

Vladimir Stakheev, born in Leningrad

The painter Vladimir Yuryevich Stakheev was born in Leningrad. I have been involved in illustration for many years. The cats from his graphic series are very elegant, emotional and beautiful. Their faces convey feelings so clearly that the cats’ thoughts can be read. Cats are angry, curious, surprised, want something, are afraid of something. They are endowed with a bright character.

Vasya Lozhkin from Solnechnogorsk

Vasya Lozhkin was born in Russia, in the city of Solnechnogorsk. He draws with inimitable humor, conveying the emotions of his ginger cats. Although, as he himself jokingly admits, he doesn’t know how to draw. Vasya also admits that his paintings are actually fairy tales with a good ending. So there is hope that there will still be enough sausage for everyone.