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) (1 children)

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 (1 children)

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.

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Spider:

-He is behind me, isn't he?

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

My mom has a print of this. It’s been hanging in her house since I was a kid.