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Cat Watching a Spider, 1892 - Ōide Tōkō (1841 - 1905) (az333959.vo.msecnd.net)

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Cat Watching a Spider, 1892 - Ōide Tōkō (1841 - 1905)

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[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago

I love the contrast between works like this, with its brilliant attention to detail and anatomy, and "Frog Meditating," by Sengai, who is just a herpy derp little Buddhist froggy guy.

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

He was just following Picasso's process:

[-] caulkandbawls@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

That kitty is watching the FUCK out of that spider

[-] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

All the little anatomical details on the cat make this great. The Henry’s pocket, the scrunched up nose, the retracted claws correctly being shown as a ‘split’ in the front of the paw… it’s just so cool to see artists from 100+ years ago seeing and portraying this without the sort of simplified visual language we grew up with in cartoons, books, etc for what a cat looks like.

[-] DrPop@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Then by contrast you have paintings from Europe, from the same period, where the artist has clearly never seen a cat.

[-] MacedWindow@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

Cute scarf, matches the eyes

[-] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

This somehow makes me feel like all is right in the world.

[-] weeeeum@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

I like this kind of minimalistic art. Many believe art needs to be deeply profound and inspiring via complexity and detail. However art like this brings me such a pure, simple joy. It's okay just to observe, enjoy and be content with the simplest things.