LARGE ANIMALS
As I am slightly crackers about «large» animals, the exhibition «Beauté Animale» tempted me. Perhaps it was something I should have chosen to do with my grand daughter as we would certainly have looked at it more closely. Having a card which gives me free entrance to 90% of museums around the world also makes me a little blasé. Not of any real interest ? Leave. There is always something to discover and I naturally look for «the modern touch». However, the history of animal painting from the Renaissance onwards didn't make any impact on me. After all those old stones I was still revelling in Duncan/Picasso and could not be enthusiastic about the history of animal painting.
Cats before the end of the 19th century were taken more for demoniac creatures. Not trusted at all. But with the pest and rats running around the cities, they became useful beasts and entered into the family home as domesticated pets. The paintings of domesticated cats left me indifferent. As did the famous