Try to imagine how it feels like for a dragonfly to see the surrounding world not just doubling, but multiplying and it sees hundreds of images of our world at the same time. And taking into consideration that with this type of eyesight dragonflies can fly, this is a true miracle.
Thus – as we know the peculiarities of the eyesight of a dragonfly – the main thing for us is not the fact that the great artist Petrov-Vodkin took his inspiration in bathing his red cat, but the fact that he was watched by his pet dragonflies. Petrov used to catch dragonflies and look straight into their eyes, being mesmerized by hundreds of reflections. And after that the kind artist put the dragonfly on his cat’s nose, so that the cat could admire the multiplicity.
But as it was Petrov only who saw the dragonflies, his friends gave him a new name "Vodkin". When Petrov got to know about that he reared, just like a horse, and upon feeling inspiration he created his well known "Bathing of a red horse", having changed a cat in favour of a cat.
Many years ago women had to put on corsets, which were like bird coops, hoop skirts, lacy collars, make luxuriant hair-dos in order to look beautiful… If we also remember that there were also veils, huge hats, fans, gloves, palanquins and heavy ...
How to draw a homo sapiens? Dot-n-dot, line-n-line – that’s a human being. It is easy with people. And if you draw a circle, two triangular and several lines (just like in a bar code) you can get a cat sapiens. Now, let us look closely at the face ...
Would you like to play with a cat? And if it were as big as a human being and you were as small as a cat? And what would happen if in this case a cat wanted to play with you… To roll you on the ground holding you with its sharp teeth, bring you into ...
Everyone knows of the healing properties of the fair sex. A woman can work magic upon a man and bring him back to life even without touching him. This skill is priceless. Especially now, when the doctors of the post-soviet countries sometimes have ...
Everyone knows cats can see in the dark. And if you light them up with a lantern for example you can see their eyes shining. Once the artist was asked why the eyes of the cat in the picture shine. "I don’t know," – said the shy artist, dropped his ...
The stained-glass windows of Notre Dame de Paris shine in the dark, they attracted people’s attention for hundreds of years. Many modern artists also created their stained-glass windows, for example Mark Chagall. But none of the artists made a cat ...
The great artist Kazimir Malevich had a cat names Square. It was huge, fat and grey. But Malevich was fond of looking for a black cat in a dark room that is why he used to paint his cat black (the artist simply didn’t have other colours). The cat ...
Nobody knows why cats are so wild about grass. Even the great science-fiction writer Clifford Simak who wrote "All Flesh Is Grass" doesn’t know that. But notice: it is not by chance that cats like to chew house plants – they seem to get green energy ...
It is known that cats can hunt at night. But in order to be successful one should spent a lot a lot of time lying-in-wait. While watching the surrounding area becomes kind of closer and it becomes part of your realm, you become the ruler, watching ...
This picture is already 30 years old - this was one of the very first cat-themed pictures by Sergey Stelmashonok. It was shown for the first time at the exhibition of young artists’ works in the House of Cinema. But the exhibition frightened the ...
People tend to idealize old times, and not without a reason: chivalry, beautiful gowns, bright life full of adventures. Still, even today we have an opportunity to scratch a romantic message to our Mistress, to perform a cat’s concert (serenade) ...
Cats and dragons have much in common. Ears, paws, claws, the ability to growl and spit – isn’t that enough? Cats are absolutely independent and they possess a unique ability to make their marble good for women, who immediately start being over-sweet ...
Site Cats & Dreams features a collection of posters, images, drawings and illustrations by the Belarusian artist Sergey Stelmashonok. Sergey has been illustrating articles in different newspapers and magazines for many years but his main passion is depicting cats. Each and every cat in his images is special. Take a look and enjoy.