Still Life
02
Mar
,

Can Cats Eat Cheese?

Can Cats Eat Cheese? Sure they can, We, Zarathustra the Cat answer on this very important question. Here is the evidence, the original version of the famous Dutch Still Life with Cheeses by Floris van Dijck painted at 17th century: The known version of the masterpiece is to be...
Виллем Клас Хеда, Натюрморт с лобстером, измереямым котом, 1650 - 1659
07
Jan
,

How to measure a lobster?

Как измерить омара? Oмар какого размера самый вкусный?
15
Jun

Flower or Turkey Pie?

Fresh odour of the miracle of nature or seductive smell of the humain’s creation: what will modern enlightened cat choose? We are so gracious in our aspiration to the Beauty: The difficulty of choice between fresh and ephemere flower beauty and not less fresh and ephemere...
18
Jan
,

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...
04
Jan
,

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 the...
02
Jan

The Cat Chef Recommends

For the first breakfast in 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 to the Arrrt of cooking, as French people call them in a very cat’s manner, la naturrre morrrte...
05
Jan

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...

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Categories

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

Highlights

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Fat Cat Art book: the marriage of the Cat and Art 1st anniversary celebration!

16 Sep 2016

How to plant cats in your garden

18 Jul 2016

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