It’s Friday, and a dreadfully slow post-holiday Friday at that, so we’re going to do something a little different again. I’ve been wanting to post these pictures of a fat ginger cat photoshopped into famous paintings since I spotted them on Dejirogu! in July, but I couldn’t find a good excuse. I’ve since seen a few of these pop up on Tumblr sites with no attribution, so I figure it’s time these were all gathered on an English-language website with each painting properly labelled. So here is my flimsy excuse: it’s Friday and cats are awesome and THIS IS CULTURAL SH-T, PEOPLE.
Check out the full gallery of originals and cat-improved versions after the jump. We have several of the Old Masters represented here (Rembrandt, Botticelli, Rubens) as well as some new ones (Salvador Dalí and Ivan Shishkin). Take note: since we’re talking about fancy art here, there will be some nudity. I guess this might be considered NSFW if your boss got a raging boner at a Rubens exhibit that one time and made me promise not to tell you about it. Oops.
Sandro Botticelli — Primavera, AKA Allegory of Spring
Sandro Botticelli — Pallas and the Centaur
Peter Paul Rubens — The Judgement of Paris
Peter Paul Rubens — The Three Graces
Salvador Dalí — Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening
Tiziano Vecellio (Titian) — Venus and Cupid with Organist
Ivan Shishkin – Morning in the Pine-Tree Forest
Sandro Botticelli — The Birth of Venus
Anthony van Dyck (in the studio of Rubens) — Drunken Silenus Supported by Satyrs
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn — Danae