In article <478no2$
...@usenetz1.news.prodigy.com> UNDL
...@prodigy.com (Esha Neogy) writes:
>From: UNDL
...@prodigy.com (Esha Neogy)
>Subject: Re: Cats who Paint
>Date: 1 Nov 1995 21:10:26 GMT
>cw
...@computek.net (Crystal Wood) wrote:
>>In article <475lt1$...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, ncr...@aol.com says...
>>>Does anybody know anything about this subject? There is a book called
>Why
>>>Cats Paint, and I'm trying to find out more about this... please email
>me
>>>direct with any info. Thanks! Nancy
>>It's a wonderfully witty book that seems so serious and sophisticated,
>you
>>almost believe it's true. It shows cats and their "work," from
>naturalism
>>to expressionism, profiling the "artists," and going into great detail,
>just
>>like a serious book on art. Well worth finding and acquiring!
>>Crystal
>>cw...@computek.net
>Yes, it is a wonderful send-up of art criticism. I wonder how they got
>the cats to do those things--probably put their paws in paint and dangled
>something above them to make them swipe on the paper.
>My father, an art historian, was very intrigued by the paintings of Koko
>the gorilla, who does do them on purpose. He also told of an elephant
>who made graceful abstract drawings with a crayon or something in her
>trunk.
>,
>Esha
Yes, great entertainment. I also wondered how they got the cats to do their
"paintings". Mine probably would have laid down and gone to sleep in the
whole mess. I find it hard to believe the statements about how much was paid
for some of the paintings. If I thought that were true, I'd have a paintbrush
list.
