A recent diary about Locomotion Studies started Stanley thinking about the Art of the Great Masters and the importance of pooties in Art and how pooties have influenced their hoomans to make better Art. He got out his art books and did some studying and dug up some facts and found out a few interesting and forgotten tidbits. That made him hungry and he had to stop for some noms and a nap but then he got right back to work.
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Lesson One:
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Sandro Botticelli- b. 1445 - d. 1510 Not much is known about Botticelli except that he could really paint. His cats liked to sit with him as he worked and he used many of them as models in his paintings.
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Raphael- b. 1483 – d. 1520 Raphael was well known for painting lots of very ugly babies and he also painted some very creepy cats.
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Hans Holbien- b. 1497 – d. 1543 Holbein painted many portraits of Henry VIII. He also like to paint Henry’s cats, who were very imposing and formidible in their own rights, although they were smart enough not to worry about stupid religious matters and let their many wives keep their heads and they lived much happier lives.
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Rembrandt- b. 1606 – d. 1669 He is considered one of the greatest painters in European art history but his studio was so dark due to a limited supply of candles that he kept tripping over his cats. This made him rather cross. It made his cats plot against him.
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Thomas Gainsborough- b.1728 – d. 1788 Tom didn’t really like cats but to further his career, he would paint them if they were well-known or notorious. Harumph.
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Paul Cezanne- b. 1839 – d. 1906 Cezanne was the bridge between Impressionism and Cubism and Matisse and Picasso called him "the father of us all". This fatherly nature caused him to be very active with cat adoption and he was very serious about finding good homes for stray pooties.
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Claude Monet- b.1840 – d. 1926 In his later years, Monet spent so much time away from home painting water lilies that his cats revolted and locked him in his house. They demanded proper hugs and scritches and extra treats and would not release him until their needs had been met. He was there quite a while.
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Vincent Van Gogh- b. 1953 – d. 1890 It is said that poor Van Gogh ate his paints and he probably also ate a fair amount of cat food. He became a crazy cat man who loved his cats even more because they were such good listeners and he talked to them incessently about his painting.
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John Singer Sargent- b.1856 – d. 1925 Sargent did very well for himself although, at the time, a few of his paintings created quite an uproar. I can’t imagine why.
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Gustav Klimt- b. 1862 – d. 1916 Klimt’s favorite subject was the female body and he liked gold, lots of gold. That didn’t leave much time for cats although he did manage to paint a few.
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec- b.1986 – d. 1901 Lautrec spent much of his time on the streets of Paris and he befriended a great many cats. They liked him because he was so short and non-threatening. He started one of the first feral cat rescue programs, Le Chat Rouge, and he was much beloved by the feline population.
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Amedeo Modigliani- b.1884 – d. 1920 Modigliani liked things long and lean and he was very fond of Siamese cats. It is rumored that these cats liked to sleep on the heater vents.
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Salvador Dali- b. 1904 – d. 1989 Dali was a wild and crazy guy and you know he would have been all over ICHC and YouTube if the internets had been around then. He was also the first person to put stuff on his cat and take a picture of it.
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This is the end of Lesson One. More perhaps to follow.
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