Classic and ever popular paintings are now new and improved from a Russian Cat Lady, Svetlana Petrova and her tubby ginger cat, Zarathistra. Check out her improved paintings from Da Vinci, Botticelli, Monet and more below!
The artist Svetlana got her amazing idea of putting her fabulous cat in classical paintings when a friend told Svetlana that her cat was adorable and should be used in artwork. Like any other crazy cat owners, Svetlana has already taken many photos of her cat who has a natural knack of posing for the camera. Those pictures were used to be put in art.
Svetlana said,
"A year ago my friend said that my cat was so funny I should use him in my art. I thought, why not, it will amuse me, and I began to think what I could do. I thought that maybe I could do a photo session with food, in the style of an old Dutch still life.
"To imagine how it would look I decided to Photoshop the cat into a painting and it was Rembrandt’s Danae. It looked good so I carried on doing them. Zarathustra is a natural born model. He adores adopting different poses, sometimes very feminine and coquettish, and makes different faces.
"Then I started to do special photo sessions having in mind paintings which I wanted to PhotoShop. It is the most difficult and longest part of work because he must be in the right position, with the correct expression, and sometimes it takes months to take the right photo.
"I thought that I could hold an exhibition, but gallery owners said: “This is not art, this is just cats”. I asked: “Why is a shark in the formaldehyde art, but and a cat in a classic painting is not art? Nobody could give me an answer, and these people began to avoid me saying that I am mad."
The results are seen in The Mona Lisa by Da Vinci, The Judgement of Paris by Peter Paul Rubens and many more! Here are the classical paintings gone cat crazy by Svetlana and beautiful cat Zarathustra below:
Da Vinci - Mona Lisa - No wonder why she has a smile on her face, Zarathustra could make anyone happy!:
Pieter Bruegel the Elder - The Tower of Babel: (And the reason for its destruction)
Pere Borrell Del Caso - Escaping Criticism:
Brush strokes: Pallas and the Centaur by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli, circa 1482, pictured left and with Zarathustra, right:
Titian, Venus with the Organist and Cupid:
Jacques-Louis David - Napoleon Crossing the Alps:
Viktor Vasnetsov - Heroes (Bogatyri):
Various names: Diego Velázquez’s Venus At Her Mirror is also known as the Rokeby Venus, The Toilet Of Venus, Venus And Cupid, or La Venus del espejo:
Monet’s 1886 work Haystack at Giverny is a much-loved Impressionist masterpiece is on show at The Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia:
Morning in the Pine Forest, by Ivan Shishkin:
Titian - Venus with the Organist and Cupid:
Vasily Surikov - Boyarynya Morozova:
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These are just few of the many paintings that Svetlana has cat-ified with Zarathustra!
Check out much more of her artwork at her website here -> Famous Paintings Improved
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