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Mar

Can Cats Eat Cheese?

Can Cats Eat Cheese? Sure they can, We, Zarathustra the Cat answer this very important question. Here is the evidence, the original version of the famous Dutch Still Life with Cheeses by Floris van Dijck painted in the 17th century: The known version of the masterpiece is to be...

Jan

Rijksmuseum, Evert Collier

The Cat and the CATalogue

They say that cats are very egocentric beings and thus they are subject to vanity. The truth is far from it: it is not vanity; it is just right self-esteem. And of course we, cats like when others also estimate us rightly. We, Zarathustra the Cat were pleased to receive a...

Jan

Adriaen van Utrecht, Rijksmuseum

And where is Russian salad?

Dutch Still Life of the Golden XVII century is a realm of opulence where you seem to find everything you want. It works better if you add a cat to it: Adriaen van Utrecht, Still Life improved by the Cat, 1644 Look how the Cat’s noble presence ameliorates the colors of...

Jan

Willem Claesz Heda

The Cat Chef Recommends

For a tasty breakfast at the beginning of the New Year, the Cat chef recommends a crab! With this wise advice We, Zarathustra the Cat begin a new column dedicated to the Arrrt of Still Life and the Arrrt of cooking, as French people call them in a very cat’s manner, la...

Jan

Pieter Claesz

Vanitas. The Cat, Kant and Kanye

Vanity of vanities; all is vanity. Even brands, cars, diamonds and Kanye West. At the beginning Pieter Claesz drew the Cat meditating in his expectation of the inevitable dinner. Then being scared by the well known art criticists’ reaction, he painted a human scull over the...

Masterrpieces
Grreat worrks, grreat arrtists. RReal aRRt.
Russian Classics
We know these works by heart from Our childhood. Or do we just pretend We know?
Portrait
We know their faces from childhood. What’s new?
Still Life
Resumes of our postprandial meditations saved for Eternity
Moderrn
What art is really modern? Is modern art always contemporary? That is the question…
Meowvies
Famous movies improved by cats. We reenact human film stars and make it better
Classics
We studied the painting techniques used in these great works. We are so glad to see them again.
The burning issues of our days
Cats in politics, cats in society. How We change everyday world
Arrrt CRISPticism
Studies in arrrt theory, trrrends in contemporary arrrt, exhibitions crrronicles