A "painting" produced
by four cats using the iPad app, Paint for Cats. The results were so
compelling, the shelter turned them into notecards and are selling them
online for $5.99 a pack. The Los Angeles animal shelter is hoping a few
crafty cats can sell their artwork. AP Photo/SPCALA.
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A "painting" produced
by four cats using the iPad app, Paint for Cats. The results were so
compelling, the shelter turned them into notecards and are selling them
online for $5.99 a pack. The Los Angeles animal shelter is hoping a few
crafty cats can sell their artwork. AP Photo/SPCALA.
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A "painting" produced by four cats using the iPad
app, Paint for Cats. The results were so compelling, the shelter
turned them into notecards and are selling them online for $5.99 a pack. The
Los Angeles animal shelter is hoping a few crafty cats can sell their artwork. AP
Photo/SPCALA.
LOS ANGELES (AP).-
A Los Angeles animal shelter that lets its cats chase toys
on top of iPads hope the digital art created by the movement will encourage
donations of money and tablet computers. An
Animal Planet crew visited the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Los Angeles for the April 14 episode
of "Must Love Cats," where they documented how four cats used an app called Paint for Cats. The results were so compelling that the shelter turned
them into notecards. The cards with drawings named
"Study in Feather Toys" and "Movement in Catnip" are being sold online for $5.99
a pack. Shelter president Madeline
Bernstein says the cats had so much fun, they put used iPads on their wish list
so other cats can paint, too.
NOTE: This story and
the artistic results should come as no surprise to anyone who is tuned into
cats, even in the slightest. As I’ve written
here before, my cat Claude works nightly creating what are clearly works of art using different types of
paper and cards he ferrets out and places in deliberate patterns on the floor,
creating hybrid painting/sculpture assemblages.
When he is in the throes of
creation he vocalizes like an opera singer and his face reminds me of a combination of the painter
played by Robert Newton in “Odd Man Out” and, just a little bit because he is
so conventionally, but monumentally handsome, of Charlton Heston as
Michelangelo in “The Agony and The Ecstasy.”
Considered from an aesthetic point of view, Claude
is the Kurt Schwitters/Edward Kienholz
of his era. Knowing this and viewing his
work is one of the greatest gifts I have ever received, one I can’t honestly
believe I deserve.
Not all
cats are artists, just as not all people are artists. Some prefer other professional pursuits and
recreational pastimes. If I had to
generalize about cats – about what all cats are and are like – I would
say they all like sports (at least as spectators) and, particularly, the early
summer All England Wimbledon tennis tournament. In our home, Bud Collins’ departure from the
broadcast coverage scene was viewed as an improvement (but not much of one) by
humans and felines alike. All one should
ideally hear are the sounds of ball whacking and popping and
umpire calls. If a grunt/groan delete
mechanism could be installed into television receivers, and on-air commentators could be exiled to some Devil's Island Of The Mind for their past bad acts, tennis-on-tv life would be Complete.
I love this! What fun. I do think cats look at us askance, as if to say, Please. Give me a break.
ReplyDeleteLiving with ten cats, as we do (it was once up to fifteen, including the outdoor ferals who lived with us for years on our terrace and protected our garden (something we never realized until they had all passed away), it's amazing the number of ways they look at us and things they say. My cat Claude is definitely up to something really, really big that's off the accepted time/space scale. I hope your poetry reading tour is proceeding nicely. Wish I could hear you. Curtis
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