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| Three Cats, Franz Marc |
I live in a big house with three cats: Lucy, Buster and Indigo. They are my amusing muses and appear in many of my books, especially Buster, as he is likes to pose in my studio. I have always lived with cats, sometimes whole litters of cats, thus, naming my blog: "Artist and 3 Cats" seemed just right.
I met the author, Joan M. Wolf, at a book signing just a few days ago who also has three cats. She calls them her "Literary Cats" and writes extensively about them on her website including lots of wonderful photos. (She has a chicken too, but that is not the name of my blog.) Three seems like a perfect number for cats~ Art has always provided me with answers and reassurances in times of wondering why, so when I came across the painting "Three Cats" by the artist Franz Marc, I felt even more certain of the title for my blog.
Franz Marc has always been one of my favorite artists. His paintings curve and move, explode and soothe with line and vibrant expressive color. He mostly painted animals; blue horses and leaping yellow cows. He was born in Munich in 1880 and died much too young in 1916 in WWI. I always look at the art of other artists to give me ideas-- take me to places I may not even imagine. When I was illustrating my book, Castles, Caves, and Honeycombs, I had pictures of Franz Marc's paintings of animals all over my studio walls.
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| Two Cats, Franz Marc |
nice arts.................../
ReplyDeleteHey Lauren,
ReplyDeleteDid you know that I have three cats and one of them is named Lucy?? I can't believe there is a painting called three cats!...anyway Love this! I knew we had more in common then Circus!
Betty
Every time I visit you Betty, I see one or two cats, but I did not know you had three! And a Lucy too. I do know that one of your cats, the big black one looks exactly like Indigo-- they could be twins!
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