Happy Easter!
From my continuing weekly Sunday series of cats in art. I'm using some ideas from the coffee table book, The Cat in Art, by Stefano Zuffi.
This is my sixteenth and probably final post on Franz Marc (1880-1916), a key German painter whose life tragically ended early on the Western Front in 1916. Maybe he even knew my great-grandfather.
Image credit The Atheneum, here. Two Wild Cats, Franz Marc, 1913, watercolor and pencil on postcard, 5.5" x 3.5", held in a private collection.
As we saw the past two weeks, here's a third tiny image--again postcard sized--this time of a couple of spotted kitties. Are they lynx? Leopards? Or does "wild" in the title merely mean that they are feral domestic kitties?
In any case, working from a smaller image, I initially had trouble figuring out how the cat on the right is posed. Turns out its head is pointed straight down (its face actually pointing into its own belly) so as to be quite close to the head of the kitty on the left. And what's not to like about a cat with blue spots?
Marc gets it completely right here in capturing the essence of catness: they seem relaxed, comfortable with each other, and seeming saying, "Today is a fine day to be a cat!"
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