Cat fight 1940

Tsuguharu Foujita painted "Cat Fight" in 1940, and he must have really loved cats! You can feel it in how he’s rendered them – all of them are acting on instinct, grappling in mid-air in a flurry of claws and teeth. I'm thinking about Foujita at work, imagining him carefully layering washes of color to build up the cats' fur. Each brushstroke feels alive with energy and a sense of movement. The composition is a chaotic jumble of bodies, but somehow it all holds together, like a feline cyclone frozen in time. There's a real sense of observation and the way he's captured the fluidity and the intensity of animal behavior. It reminds me that painting is more than just representation, it's about capturing something essential about the world. And that's what makes it so endlessly exciting. Artists are in a conversation through time, and painting keeps evolving.