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April 26, 2021

Ekphrastic April, Day 26: "Les Tricoteuses"

 


"Les Tricoteuses" 1915 by Jacqueline Marval [1866-1932] 


I am a cat

and cannot control
my innate impulses

humans knit in front
of me as if they expect
I won't go for the kill

 

© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved.

7 comments:

  1. Never trust the cat, so right. What an intriguing painting. Those who are pale seems as if they are the ancestors gone who passed on the knitting. Have a nice week, Diane!

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    1. Interesting interpretation, Linda! I saw it as the ones in white representing the good. And, the black cats and the women in red at the bottom (the direction of hell) representing the evil.

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  2. You must have been a cat in another life, Diane. Love this one!

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  3. Ha! I love this. I got to visit France in 2019. My husband...after I dragged him from art gallery to art gallery finally started taking photos of dogs in paintings. So, then of course, I had to take pics of cats!

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    1. Linda, I'll bet the dogs were represented twice as often!

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    2. I just remembered I had written about dogs and cats in paintings a few years back. https://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/2013/03/poetry-friday-observations-of-manuels.html

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