Our dear friends, as We are sure you already know that Our beloved Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam re-opened after a renovation in ibp9zw58of97pwdmqiyt2e2kz4iljp0r April. For this great opening We, Zarathustra the Cat, also made a renovation of “The Night Watch” by Rembrandt. Now you can see more clearly that it is the Day Watch in fact and that it were time and it’s companion patina that brought darkness in the painting :4gyafmyy2ljyusxazo7lsy322r516j51

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, The Night Watch (Company of Frans Banning Cocq and the Cat)qg4qsdlzrjpq5osml6ic141vzfqd9dmp

We told the story of this masterpiece before. You can have a look at the commonly known version of the painting in every detail and even download a hi-res file of it at the museum site, the museum curators are so noble and generous humains.
Our restauration efforts were presented to the press, but We guess journalists didn’t belive their eyes if they didn’t publish this revelation:rnhgei6o6bw43r49e8k91ib6tzmzpg26

Journalists don’t believe their eyes and camerasp2epqhoh6t21toyjnhj5chgux3ezu3na

Nobody even noticed that the magnificent orange firework was created at the image of the magnificent orange Cat!2ry0qtkwrl7ytycfvyf3fjzwds1f8bd1

Catwork over Rijksmuseumygzb84huudceu8pb4xc00mjzbz7dni4b

Humans usually notice only things that they used to, only we, cats, notice the matter of the facts.bnjm9fw9x5htvi3pcvqylo3j9ocs1qv3

Thus speaks Zarathustra the Cat.uy9lt1gepbm3hqz5vlyp4gxrhea2u40e

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In the place where We actually live it is sunny now (if on can say about the place of internet cat that has wave–particle duality). We decided to look at the sun by eyes of great American artist Edward Hopper:hniw0ff0j932u5wosek6kb61nvapc2tk

Edward Hopper, People in the Sun, 1960f3gnbefbjarz328gjn1lvbt7sik808x6

If you compare the original of the famous painting presented here to the commonly known version that you can find in Smithsonian American Art Museum, you would understand the great mystery of huge free spaces at Hopper’s paintings: you can find a cat everywhere there, you should just turn on your imagination!vjefmvf41tfwsilqbwih5sgdxmbq6vhs

Общеизвестная версия “Людей на солнце” Хоппераcgu6guffjc3b0fxi25zeg9m22rlrci3e

We, cats, and expecially sunny ginger cats are always ready to shine and keep warm your Earth, dear humans!k27bevpnxp9fy9tdzw3045d09fhecjgm

Thus spake Zarathustra the Cat.bkn6dy0yg5h5oy4f6y18a4111gswg9mh

We Zarathustra the Cat are so kind to share with you Our impressions from Manifesto 13 v87os5piwwzf62m11cxzohl5hovloqq9 exhibition at Rizzordi Art Foundation, St.Petersburg, Russia. The question came to Our mind:psg32s6aa57eto8ee7pz21mbfxz2d0as

This is exhibition art on the wall, and this is internet meme in our paws.What makes a difference??? v87os5piwwzf62m11cxzohl5hovloqq9v1z0qpe6vte4bp23iykoz3npihnyo929

Why curators and art critics treat this work by Max Papeschi as art, and “Famous Paintings Improved by Fat Cats” as internet meme? Why they treat almost all hundreds of remixes of Grant Wood’s “American Gothic” as not art but just internet memes? Some of them are more artfully done, clever and of course more famous that the work exhibited here! Who can give an anser? v87os5piwwzf62m11cxzohl5hovloqq9 Rational explanation wanted! 10 000 purrs reward!
N.B. r1rsulvqqs6ch7bxs5oe3x1y6wqmdvgvWe don’t accept explations as: “Max Papeschi is an artist, and you Zarathustra is just a lolcat”!n8tluxa5b2t9ihpt0m3bpi3jmmwlslp5

After having scratched Our big head over this enigmatic question, We put it on the laps of a pretty witch by Angela Loveday:neobg2vcquiofkihtn4qpduuy6s6q6n3

Witches always love cats, cats always love witches! And raw meat also… v87os5piwwzf62m11cxzohl5hovloqq94u429jvn8d63nivrlxmm0diils2pvbqq

Contemporary art has various taste.
Thus speaks Zarathustra the Cathj5dacr3tmbi5rq4tvi23fjk0zp4rigz

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Internet Kitteh is omnipresent and omnipotent. It haz wave–particle duality: it spreads like tsunami and according to Heisenberg uncertainty principle for particles, it can occupy different positions in space at the same time.
On Friday We, Zarathustra the Cat presented to New York art lovers what is happening in museums worldwide:rc2r9l8gacm84nekjqfrjuh14yytnw85

The Village Voice says you’re New York’s Best Art Blog, you say you help to provide exposure to emerging contemporary art
Pleazzz provide Us exposure at the Metropolitan Museum! We’ll sit to Monet for Water Lilies!81qhn5sw1jfwxa39u62ec2xey9423ew1

Meanwhile in St. Petersburg, Russia: We visited Vita Buivid’s exhibition “Reservoir Dogs” at Al-Gallery. While cats are trend in New York, they are still cherishing dogs in St.P. We were so kind to upgrade it by cats to “Fat Cat vs Reservoir Dogs” virtual expo:bu4wlzy1iopfdwu0gv2f2z8e2444g4ii

Fat Cat vs Reservoir Dogsso6wy0zfnsyhwo400hwhelsob4v0ahxs

Meanwhile in the World Wide Web:69cghvxxvno1rcym0bnjzt9cdo0ctezq

CHEEZBURGER, I HAZ IT!s63ne6lhpowxvkr5cnsfpl48vo0ijer1

Meanwhile at beauty forums; Fat Cat watches your weight:o5dxh22jk5omi2izmbw4txiij2m6704m

«I watch you eating my clementines and drinking my Champaign»mzgfullf79e61vszof86n1laa2dljv2w

Meanwhile in politics reviews; every body knows that human candidates will be in trouble soon: cats are struggling for the right to be elected, and if they win humans fail:iz8px02h2qod6dkty3ud8vzkyhyrqhxz

Thus spake Zarathustra the Cat to Putin the President: If cats will be members of legislation, no more stupid laws! And no more dogs barking after 6 P.M.!u7lj88gn0ffkm7crnyd2ms9pfxwdnny7

Meanwhile in Australia. Those crazy Austraйлианс, хахахаха, they always go wrong way! Nice presentation of national differences on Australian page “Meanwhile in Russia” is not full, Internet is also nation! We updated it:
Meanwhile in Rio da Janeiro. Cats and Gala go to Copacabana beach (meanwhile cats continue to present to New York art lovers what is happening in the museums worldwide):1rwfz98oes93rz2wugy3l5ncrrjitbwk

We are not Bonsai kitten, but We are also cultivated in Brazil!2tdv4fcgyo0mift9xuc43nc8onfze3n6

Meanwhile somewhere you never guess where:o8421q0ja7qinomsaoz0ugp5poyp45gi

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Internet Kitteh is omnipresent and omnipotent. It haz wave–particle duality: it spreads like tsunami and according to Heisenberg uncertainty principle for particles, it can occupy different positions in space at the same time.
On Friday We, Zarathustra the Cat presented to New York art lovers what is happening in museums worldwide:

The Village Voice says you’re New York’s Best Art Blog, you say you help to provide exposure to emerging contemporary art
Pleazzz provide Us exposure at the Metropolitan Museum! We’ll sit to Monet for Water Lilies!

Meanwhile in St. Petersburg, Russia: We visited Vita Buivid’s exhibition “Reservoir Dogs” at Al-Gallery. While cats are trend in New York, they are still cherishing dogs in St.P. We were so kind to upgrade it by cats to “Fat Cat vs Reservoir Dogs” virtual expo:

Fat Cat vs Reservoir Dogs

Meanwhile in the World Wide Web:

CHEEZBURGER, I HAZ IT!

Meanwhile at beauty forums; Fat Cat watches your weight:

«I watch you eating my clementines and drinking my Champaign»

Meanwhile in politics reviews; every body knows that human candidates will be in trouble soon: cats are struggling for the right to be elected, and if they win humans fail:

Thus spake Zarathustra the Cat to Putin the President: If cats will be members of legislation, no more stupid laws! And no more dogs barking after 6 P.M.!

Meanwhile in Australia. Those crazy Austraйлианс, хахахаха, they always go wrong way! Nice presentation of national differences on Australian page “Meanwhile in Russia” is not full, Internet is also nation! We updated it:
Meanwhile in Rio da Janeiro. Cats and Gala go to Copacabana beach (meanwhile cats continue to present to New York art lovers what is happening in the museums worldwide):

We are not Bonsai kitten, but We are also cultivated in Brazil!

Meanwhile somewhere you never guess where:

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We, Zarathustra the Cat now present the original version of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s famous painting, that appeared to be a diptych. Here is the first part of it, further go details and the second part:y0ozk5qrm46t5r1xs8lalcgf4icuf3y4

Питер Брейгель Старший, Вавилонская башня, 1565, диптих, часть 1eg49e58kmnc9d7e7k0lpfc4ma6ne5sla

The commonly known version of this painting is the pearl of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen collection in Rotterdam:

We, the time traveling fat cat visited painter when he began to work on the story of Tower of Babel. qpz26dmqkc3gb1559ulwa8vr83ly0w2gHaving cuddled and tickled and snuggled a lot his visitor Bruegel  thought that the epic fail of humanity would never happen if it would be enough cats amongst humans: everybody would sank in cuteness and stop quarrel and cat lovers language should became common. And he started to paint:b8502mrr9srp4xigvuvnjxtk5rnr3rj5

Cats see deep in future…zhpf82hndhyg5ycn0n9whie09dd7y1wo

and watch small people under their paws…kindly show themselves through a window to excited audiencefinish the construction playingrelax at the balconyin order to help humans cats throw things from the topthey sleep in unexpected places and hunt you from unexpected places..But having seen the original painting, art critics of the 16th century told to Bruegel: “Come on, Pieter, looks like you installed Cat Paint on your pz206se0gtl4cj9v1dl2ziwllxcpuowaiPhone! dd0oc53cxxp8kp6ceb3ofzjxl6k92sx6It is not serious, don’t be a boy, you are the Elder! and moreover, it is blasphemy!”. Against his heart, Pieter Bruegel painted the cats over.
But in the silence of his atelier he painted another version of the tower, this a recipe for future generations how to repair it and to unite the nations again:bagx5m35fgd5a5i4nk23pg6m7scrpf0r

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Tower of Babel, 1565, diptych, part 2fp832f9q9zm1xebn0x8hg9jjqsezgztl

Now the both parts of Rotterdam diptych is united with the commonly known version in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen:ntk8ig0g4b93up6zw4s133rxwy7keg4s

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Tower of Babel, diptych and commomly known version at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen9cp6vpnyu9xv531b0m3tus89b3sehbmg

We, Zarathustra the Cat, already told you, how dangerous art criticists can be, how they can damage free art development by their snobbish thinking. It was the subject of the painting “Escaping Criticism” by a famous catalan artist Pere Borrell Del Caso:zjgajkqnqt64acvpwnf1j0jk56n94w1t

If you have a look at the commomnly known version of this masterpiece in “trompe-l’œil” (optical illusion) genre, that you can find at the Collection of the Bank of Spain, you will see that the master himself didn’t manage to escape from art-criticists who thought that the painting with the cat is not serious and made Pere to paint the noble being off:
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What is the subject of the painting with the weird name? May be it is a noble cat in the Nyan Rainbow Rescue Wig that saves a boy from the posessed art crticist Sadako pronouncing a magic exorcism:hbmh2beu1w9cufvrti18dr7ufgqhoq0v

Or, may be it is very simple, a boy and a cat are planning an adventure in the art critic’s fridge:agljw4s24oko35lxaqw29avkh9nfpktq

Now nobody knows.mllmpw7bpzviuctlsgsfnclt33leaxon

We, Zarathustra the Cat, couldn’t roam so freely at the world wide web without the help of good shepherds, there are manades of Us in the internet. The good shepherds tell Us stories of culture from all over the world, bring us recent news from the places We never was, advices Us what pieces of art we should visit (We should say that at the moment We have 852 paintings in our tour plans). ozj9ysdp0w3jarvq7wiwiso0knez57ijThis is the sign that 2 shephards from facebook have Shepard as family name: Susan from New England in USA and Sylvia from Germany, who created the fan page of Fat Cat Art at Facebook. For you an old symbol of the Good Shepherd, or criophorus (Κριοφόρος), the “ram-bearer” turns into the “cat-bearer”:mxz1aad0jfsyj7q1h50ut9cp7a7icd5o

the Cat-bearer, the Good Shepherd of the Internetkdxalrdujygvrmkbrfzrmr0ecxzk0j8b

About the origins of symbolism: the form of the image showing a young man carrying a lamb round his neck was directly borrowed by Crhistian art from the much older pagan kriophoros and in the case of portable statuettes like the most famous one created at c. 300-350 now in the Pio Cristiano Museum, Vatican City, they say it is impossible to say to what culture the image belongs. Now it belons to Internet culture also.0ad2w8v5jhmshkx206gnxqnkh1r2o6bf

Dear friends and cat lovers from all over the world, We, Zarathustra the Cat graciousely decided to make humanity happier offline. Diptych by Pieter Bruegel “Tower of Babel” to be seen at Rotterdam Museum Night 9th March. Here goes the first part of it, the rest will arrive after the opening:zqw5q0cx9xm38ryq292ypcwoqh3hpd9e

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Pieter Bruegel, The Tower of Babel, 1565xnufjhu89xaiyobici2viu1vdlv0d1v0

Everybody who are able to reach Rotterdam will be welcomed at Cats vs Dogs exhibition.orojh04gnsfld0od8qngopsa2sq5cj7q

They say that We, Cats are natural born killers. But don’t forget that humans introduced cats in their society because of cats hunting abilities, and now humans themselves took mission of rats henocide by means of chemical weapon that is much more efficient than noble hunt. And now humans complain on cats! What a hypocrasy!
The genious Lucas Cranach the Elder  wisely depicted this controverse between cats hunting drive and misericordia to all living beings of their humans. orcgm52yp88qfhcm8nujh6k19glq7h5lSometimes we should make a sacrifice if we’d like to live together:61kypqmlhwvi17p29tjahfw8znizhvre

The painting treats the aincient Greek poet Theocritus idyll “Cupid Stealing Honey”. Cupid complains to his mother, Venus, of how the bees sting him because he has stolen their hive. Venus replies that his own love arrows also hurts. You can have a look at the commonly known version of this painting (available  in high resolution at the site of Statens Museum for Kunst) :0l69222ept9zmsey1waaw4jlocxtqyfh

At the top of the painting one can find Latin Theocritus quotation. At the process of the restoration of the original painting (at the beginning of the post) We discovered another interpretation of the theme of pleasure and payment for having it. Let us have a look on Latin quotation there:
We dared to translate it like this:xg2ro01i6u3s143z2w8lzjbxx3yc1p3o

While boyish Cat hunted birds in the garden,
his human caught him by tail
Thus too, the brief and passing pleasure that we seek,
ends in Obesity Management diet.dviji0kbpd98s2xrcoq0ajz4l89wpv7t

For your sake, dear humans, We, Cats, refuse from hunting pleasures and scrunch dry food humbly. You should have a respect!lhdng1c13qfb7eb4reb3yx8kre407f2j

We, Cats, as well as our humains, are not unanimous in the question should we comletely refuse from hunting for the sake of doubtful theories of some ecologists or just for the sake of human misericordia to all living beings (We are full of respect to this feeling).c3pawk39yl2e4qoz5nw74sh0fkg56xf8

Our beloved brother, wise Hank the Cat, who took part in human elections to USA Senate is ready to sacrifice old tradition of our race in order to respect the will of his electorate and even walk in the garden being in special cage.fmcprb8r5ip5flis84oxcyxsbpiyq8dw

Another choice is possible: Lizzy the Cat from Netherlands is proud of her hunting skills, so does her human: the  photos of her “crimes” is presented at art exhibitions. Some humans would say “oh” having seen close up  of the cat gormandizing a bird, others would love to see so familiar but wild life scene.64bk8e126yfvnsbue745hx2blqcyug1r

There is a position between 2 opposits: a cat cannot kill birds, but can and must kill mice and rats. In the State Hermitage Museum in Russia one can found about 70 cats defending the museum collection from rodents:
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What opinion to share is a deal of each couple “cat – humain”, the main thing both should be satisfyed. We, for exemple, at present time demonstrate our excellent hunting skills only on flies.khp3dcjo609pm5iwx7lz3wvodhdzo98z

Thus spake Zarathustra the Caty7qew5gm9sfnnfwb66ixpzyaup2ymzha

From February 15 the humanity guess what falled down from the sky in Chelyabinsk? Wise cats scientists suggest their explanation:wzukehqol7m4ondqpn18h4luo7srxabj

Let examine the theory in details: 
From long distance one should notice the double trace of the meteoririte. Thanks to Shadow Guard for excellent photo:
Looking for some conspiracy theory?
Let us come closer:ikhgffgguike8h0xdjq08t8kjrq23ejc

and close-up!:7zdl7z9kvzg1om59tvo5ps1ryxu3e9tb

We, Zarathustra the Cat, cannot miss such seducive target as Angry Birds brought in real life by fabulous talent of Mohamed Raoof  from far away India. We were late to catch them at World Wide Web, here are We, and there are them, but we shall catch them offline for sure!!! Viva mighty Zaratron and BirdaThor! Of course Russian cat hunting Finnish birds transmitted to real life in India is a global scale event.
This is only theory. ebwyj23712etyl9b12gxows3zxfzccehIf it will happen in reality, nobody would be injured, or may be somebody would sink in cuteness.siy92v0n4u1qgvm8rjuv9yu5fmkw8k4r