12 Cat-Modified Reproductions Of Famous Classical Paintings Created By This Professional Artist

“This encouraged me a lot, and I launched the site FatCatArt.com where Zarathustra reflected on his travels in the history of art and its contemporary development and showed the paintings created by great masters of the past and present with him as a meowdel and a Mews.

My other inspiration for this project was the internet. I dreamt of making an experiment: to create an internet meme that should be beautiful and clever, this virus should bring some information, some stimulus to know more. It should be a virus of freedom of aspiring to new knowledge and not a virus of simple repeating what has been done before. People discovering my cat paintings should google originals. Of course, not all of them do that, but just a few of them are worth a play. The cat-modified paintings fit ideally to my idea of a clever and beautiful meme. Making this project brought a lot of knowledge for me also, I studied a lot of the styles of old masters, and their techniques, to make paintings look as if they are real paintings made by old masters.

In my childhood with my mother, we went to the Hermitage Museum every weekend.

And then Zarathustra the Cat came into my life, like he was sent by my mother to take care of me in her absence and to bring me again to the museum.

My experiment of creating an internet meme of art history was successful. The paintings from my site flew on the internet, and Zarathustra conquered the World Wide Web without any effort from my side. 'Famous paintings improved by cats' went viral and became popular memes and the Fat Cat Art project turned into an internet sensation.”