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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Catzilla pops up under the Mannen Bridge at Fukagawa

Jun

Katsushika Hokusai, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Catzilla pops up under the Mannen Bridge in Japan

Today We, Zarathustra the Cat, present the true version of the famous woodblock print “Under the Mannen Bridge at Fukagawa” from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji by genius Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai, where Catzilla’s presence was discovered: One...

Mar

Marie-Denise Villers, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Artist and Her Mews

“Behind every great woman there is a great cat” – We thought this posing to the incredibly talented girl, Marie-Denise Villers: It was a lot of historical injustice around this painting: it was attributed to Jacques-Louis David at the time when humans thought...

Mar

Gustave Courbet, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Winged cats are singing!

Winged cats are singing for you, ladies, greeting you with their refreshing voices! Just imagine: you wake up in the morning listening to your winged cats singing! You are so happy, even when you notice it is only 5 o’clock! Great French artist Gustave Courbet painted this...

Feb

Frans Hals, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Merrymaking at Shrovetide

Guess what is the most amusing entertainment during the season of feasts and carnivals? Of course, it is feeding your cat a lot of tasty things! Famous Dutch artist Frans Hals once painted Us when a company of merry humans at Shrovetide, aka Pancakes Week, suggested Us various...

Apr

Andy Warhol, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

United colors of cats

Everybody knows the famous series of Andy Warhol’s colorful Marilyn Monroe silkscreen prints. We, Zarathustra the Cat, decided to reveal a secret series of cat prints, made by the great artist and cat lover at the same time. We posed to him with Our tongue out, trying to be...

Apr

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vincent van Gogh

Do cats love irises?

Once, at a nice spring day, We posed to Vincent Van Gogh, animating his still life with irises: My dear cat friends, never perform this trick by yourself! Unfortunately beautiful flowers are toxic for cats. Better not to eat them, but just drop the vase from the table, you human...

Dec

John Singer Sargent, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Madame X and Monsieur Z

Do you know that not only old ladies posed with Us, Zarathustra the Cat, for the great American painters? The most stylish of ladies, M-me Virginie Gautreau, also admired our beauty and chose Us as a companion for her portrait. Here is John Singer Sargent’s masterpiece,...

Apr

Jean-Léon Gérôme, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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...

Feb

Emanuel Leutze, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

An Unexpected Journey

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

Aug

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Monet

Bathing in the pond of water lillies and other summer delights

Summer time. Heat. Cats are melting like clocks at the famous Salvador Dali’s painting. It’s so refrshing to plunge into a pond full of water lillies and drink water with the taste of duckweed and flowers! Once Claude Monet saw Us taking such a bath and he was very...