Classics
Edgar_Degas_-_The_Ballet_Class_-cat
10
Nov
,

Pas de chat – dance like a fat cat!

Do you know why the classical ballet glossary contains a lot of names of jumps with the word «cat» («chat» in French): pas de chat, entrе-chat? That is because We used to be a famous ballet teacher in France the 19th century, and the great Edgar Degas painted Us in his...
31
Oct

Halloween Cat

In some households, where large cats, loving to sleep on their humans, live, these humans have a happy chance to celebrate Halloween every night Henry Fuseli, the great Swiss and British artist, was so lucky to try Our night magic on himself. Then he created this masterpiece:...
Andrea Mantegna, Oculus. In Search of Lost Time and Dinner
25
Sep

In Search of Lost Time and Dinner

Dear humans, have you ever seen a Cat in search of lost time and dinner, flying over your head when you prepare food in your kitchen? If not, just raise your head and you’ll see the truth! So did the great Italian painter Andrea Mantegna. Then he depicted the flying cat at his...
08
Jun
,

A new Cezanne painting discovered: “The Cat Card Players”!

Everybody heard of “The Card Players”, a series of oil paintings by the famous French artist Paul Cézanne, five paintings in the series were known up to this moment on. The versions vary in size and in the number of players depicted. The most famous are 3 two person...
15
Apr
,

My Fair Cat Lady

How to create a perfect cat lady? A human that would deliver your tasty food in time and without any diet, that will comb you, give you a nice belly rub, and serve a perfect bed whenever you would like to have a noble cat nap? A human that would make thousands of your photos, and...
Pieter Aertsen, Fat Cat at Fat Kitchen
28
Mar
,

Fat Kitchen

Kitchen dramas were important even in the 16th century, and it was Pieter Aertsen who profoundly investigated the impact of food on human history’s most basic moments. Here we can see the profound reflection on how cats, being carnivores, can yet live with vegetarian humans....
20
Mar
,

A Ginger Cat and a Red Hat

Do you know that Cardinal Richelieu was a devoted cat-lover? In 1642 he had fourteen felines!  They were the only true affection of this pragmatic politician, that is why so much is known about his cats, not only their names. There was Richelieu’ favourite Soumise (mea...
13
Mar
,

Dolce far niente

Every cat is a top professional in laziness, and We, the best cat in the world, are champion of it. After all this work on improving famous paintings by cats We really need a good rest, of course after a good and tasty dinner. Once, while We were enjoying our postprandial time,...
09
Mar
,

Sappho and the Fat Cat

Today We decided to reveal the truth under the painting “Sappho and Alcaeus”. Actually, the painting is “Sappho and the Fat Cat”: Really, one cannot find historical truth at the commonly known version of the masterpiece to be seen at the Walters Art...
06
Mar
,

Wine vs Catnip

Today We reveal the truth behind the famous masterpiece: the painting “Bacchus” by Caravaggio. If you are a human of some cat, you may notice that your master is not very happy if you occasionally  drink a glass of good (in your opinion) wine. We, cats, find alcohol shocking in...
19
Feb
,

An Unexpected Journey

This happened once upon a time in winter; in one icy winter, maybe almost as cold and snowy as this year’s winter in New England and Canada. George Washington crossed the Delaware River with his army, and the great master Emanuel Leutze depicted it. Here is the true version...
08
Jan

Don’t shoot the cartoonist!

Don’t shoot the cartoonist! If you do not like his drawings, just don’t buy his magazine. If you think he is too wrong, you even can sue him. But don’t shoot the cartoonist! On 13 July 1793, Jean-Paul Marat, a radical journalist and politician during the French...
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