Picasso’s genius is evident in museums around the world, but the Picasso Museum in Malaga, Spain is special.
Picasso was born in Malaga in 1881 and by seven years old began drawing and oil painting under the tutelage of his father, a professor of art at the School of Crafts. His father was a realistic painter and specialized in birds and other small animals.
Although Picasso is famous for deconstructing visual traditions and reinventing new ways to look at painting and other visual mediums, what isn’t so well known is his love of animals. All kinds of animals feature in his work throughout his career, including cats.
Picasso’s Reclining Nude with Cat, oil on canvas, 1964.
The Cat, sculpted out of plaster, in 1941.
Love Picasso or not, he was certainly one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, and we have to appreciate him as an artist who loved cats.
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