It all started on Twitter — specifically, with the account called "poorly drawn cats." The account's premise is pretty simple: Artist Heloísa Nora uses photos of people's cats and draws them. The ...
A Louis Wain illustration of cats singing carols Public domain via Wikimedia Commons In 1886, a little-known artist named Louis Wain contributed a rollicking illustration of festive cats to the ...
A careless moment in a 15th-century workshop involving one curious cat walking across freshly inked parchment has turned into ...
An oversized cat drawing has been discovered on a hill at the famous Nazca Lines site in Peru. The impressive artwork dates back some 2,000 years and measures over 120 feet across. The feline geoglyph ...
“The smallest feline is a masterpiece,” wrote Leonardo da Vinci, whose drawing Study of Cat Movements and Positions testifies to his admiration for the animal’s flexibility; Thomas Gainsborough‘s and ...
Meow Met showing John Kay’s “The Favourite Cat and De La-Tour Painter” (1813) (all screenshots by the author for Hyperallergic) One of the most common and eternal struggles of being a heavy internet ...
Want to guarantee yourself some social media love? An adorable cat video is sure to do the trick. But long before computers, cats were a fruitful source of inspiration to artists of all stripes. The ...
Yes, cats can be hard to understand sometimes, but their cuteness redeems all the mischievous deeds they might have done ...
In Sanskrit, the term marjara-nyaya refers to a method of devotion in which a devotee completely surrenders to the deity, much like a kitten surrenders to the mother's protective grasp (marjara is the ...