Does a portrait of a sleeping cat qualify as a "still life" painting?
(Just one of those things that make you go, "Hmm?")
IMO? No. Sorry. But funny!
If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water. (Bulgarian Proverb)
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Hmmmm...and when you have more than one, are they still lives? 9 life still lives?
Robin
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Though the cat make look deceased, it is still alive, so I suggest a sleeping cat setup is a 'still alive.' Or perhaps a 'still alife.'
But what happens when you paint a person sleeping, we still call it a portrait, right? Why should it be different for an animal portrait, sleeping or not. Just brainstorming here.
YVS
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Sleeping cat = animal portrait...
Everybody,
Yes, clearly a portrait of a cat, sleeping or otherwise, is still a portrait. I think some folks may be losing sight of the fact that this was a tongue-in-cheek question not intended to be taken seriously.
For those of us who live with and love our furry feline kids, few things seem quite as inanimate as a sleeping cat (except when their feet and whiskers twitch as they dream.) One day I was reading an art magazine article about still life drawings while one of my cats was sleeping on a table next to a lamp that looked just like the lamp in the still life on the page of the magazine. I imagined my sleeping cat into the picture on the page and thought that it still looked like a still life.
But, just to be difficult, consider this: a picture/painting/drawing can be called a "landscape" when it contains, for example, a shore front scene with boats, birds, and people on the beach. The people add to the mood of the landscape, but don't change the fact that it's still a landscape. If there's only one person on the beach in this landscape it's still a landscape, isn't it? With this in mind, when does a "still life" of a lamp on a table by a curtained window become a portrait by the addition of a cat?
Ok, so now the conversation is no longer quite so tongue-in-cheek.
Aren't you basically talking about the center of interest or focal point here?
I think we are having fun yet!
A season is set for everything; a time for every experience under heaven.
Yeah, If the cat is a sculpture.
I have to say, "It's Aliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive!!!!" (Frankenstein) The cat is breathing, &, therefore, moving. Definitely not a still life.
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