Kissakortti: 91 / Cat Card: 91

Kissamatto (Cat Mat) on väritetty lyijykynäpiirros ja kuvan on tehnyt englantilainen Sarah J. Venus (s. 1958). Kaksi aika villin väristä ja kuvioista kissaa istuu matolla. Ne ehkä haaveilevat maton ylä- ja alareunassa olevista värikkäistä, pilkullisista kaloista. Kuvassa on monenlaisia kuvioita, mutta se on silti tasapainoinen ja harmoninen, kun värejä on kuitenkin vain muutama: vihreä, keltainen, ruskea, punainen ja musta. 

Olen vuosien aikana kerännyt aikamoisen määrän kissakortteja. Museoiden kaupat ovat oikeita aarreaittoja kissakorttien kerääjälle. Useat korteistani ovat taidekortteja.

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Cat Mat is a coloured pencil drawing and it was done by English Sarah J. Venus (b.1958). Two rather wild looking and coloured cats sit on a mat. Perhaps they are dreaming about the colourful, spotted fish at the bottom and upper side of the mat. There are many kind of patterns in the picture, but still it is balanced and harmonious when there are only a few colours: green, yellow, brown, red, and black.

I have collected quite a large number of cat cards over decades. Museum shops are treasure-troves for a cat card collector. Several of my cat cads are art cards.

Kissakortti: 85 / Cat Card: 85

Sarah J. Venusin (s. 1958) monivärinen linoleikkaus The Owl and the Pussycat (Pöllö ja kissimirri) on kuvitus Edward Learin samannimiseen runoon (alla). Vaikka runossa onkin onnellinen loppu häineen, kuvan tunnelma on silti aika surumielinen. Kaksi näennäisesti toisilleen sopimatonta hahmoa ovat pienessä veneessään kuutamossa aaltojen armoilla matkalla kohti tuntematonta. Kissan hännästä roikkuu pieni vihreä kala. Värien ja kuvioiden käyttö tässä linoleikkauksessa on hieno.

Olen vuosien aikana kerännyt aikamoisen määrän kissakortteja. Museoiden kaupat ovat oikeita aarreaittoja kissakorttien kerääjälle. Useat korteistani ovat taidekortteja.

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Sarah J. Venus´s (b. 1958) multicoloured linocut called The Owl and the Pussycat is an illustration to Edward Lear´s poem with the same name (below). Even though there is a happy ending with the wedding in the poem, the atmosphere in this picture is quite melancholy. Two seemingly to each other incompatible characters are gliding in their small boat at the mercy of the waves in the moonlight on their way towards the unknown. A small green fish is dangling from the cat´s tail. The use of patterns and colours in this linocut is very fine.

I have collected quite a large number of cat cards over decades. Museum shops are treasure-troves for a cat card collector. Several of my cat cads are art cards.

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat

BY EDWARD LEAR

I

The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea

   In a beautiful pea-green boat,

They took some honey, and plenty of money,

   Wrapped up in a five-pound note.

The Owl looked up to the stars above,

   And sang to a small guitar,

"O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love,

    What a beautiful Pussy you are,

         You are,

         You are!

What a beautiful Pussy you are!"

II

Pussy said to the Owl, "You elegant fowl!

   How charmingly sweet you sing!

O let us be married! too long we have tarried:

   But what shall we do for a ring?"

They sailed away, for a year and a day,

   To the land where the Bong-Tree grows

And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood

   With a ring at the end of his nose,

             His nose,

             His nose,

   With a ring at the end of his nose.

III

"Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling

   Your ring?" Said the Piggy, "I will."

So they took it away, and were married next day

   By the Turkey who lives on the hill.

They dined on mince, and slices of quince,

   Which they ate with a runcible spoon;   

And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,

   They danced by the light of the moon,

             The moon,

             The moon,

They danced by the light of the moon.

Source: The Random House Book of Poetry for Children (1983)