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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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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 4 points 10 months ago

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