Monthly Archives: May 2010

May 2010: Jan Baptist Weenix, A Dog and a Cat near a Partially Disembowelled Deer, 1647-60

The dead deer, hissing cat, growling dog, the brutality of base animal instinct (snarling) is captured like a panther in a cage—and the viewer is in the cage with it.
This painting is deceptively complex. There are rhymes of color, texture, shape, light.
A full spectrum of resolution (from thin paint to thick, from flat to modeled) [...]