CatVideo Fest, 2024 Edition

Oh!

CatVideoFest 2024 was terrific!

Grabbed from CatVideoFest.com

A few pics that I took while laughing:

Go to https://www.catvideofest.com/ to find out when it's in your 'hood!

Local cat rescues get donations from proceeds, which is fabulous.

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HB Catman Dali

Salvador Dali

11 May, 1904-23 January, 1989

Artist known for his work in Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism.

And he was a cat man!

The Persistence of Memory, 1931
Viewed at MoMA, New York City

Lunch meat parody

Kitten parody!

Even Fat Cat Art made a version
Go here for more, and click on the image above to enjoy a jigsaw puzzle.

Dali Atomicus: Phillipe Halsman & Salvador Dali, 1948
Viewed at Detroit Institute of Arts

Salvador Dali, Paris: Willy Rizzo, 1950
Viewed at Detroit Institute of Arts

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CatVideo Fest 2023

Website: CatVideoFest 2023

Facebook: TheCatVideoFest

Here are a few snaps from the hilarious film!

Sad Cat

Twin Watchers

"Don't bite me!"

Exercise

Synchronization

And in honor of Bat Week 24/10 to 31/10:

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Love Week Day 6: Art and Architecture

I love a good story, as told by an artist, an architect, a engineer, or a craftsperson.

When I travel, I visit museums, famous architecture, and gardens.

Cat
1913, Raymond Duchamp-Villon
Detroit Institute of Arts, USA

Dorothy H. Turkel House
1956, Frank Lloyd Wright
Detroit, Michigan USA

Self Portrait at The Age of 34
1640, Rembrandt van Rijn
The National Gallery, London UK

Chandelier
1904, Glamorgan Castle
Alliance, Ohio USA

Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman
First released in 1956
The Columbus Museum
Columbus, Georgia USA

Tatra T87 Sedan, designed 1936, manufactured 1948
Hans Ledwinka
Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA

Roman Bath, C. 60-70 AD
Museum and galleries added in the 1700's-1800's
Bath, UK

Woman With A Cat
c. 1880-82 by Auguste Renoir
National Gallery, London UK

Frederick C. Robie House
1909, Frank Lloyd Wright
Hyde Park, Illinois USA

Cape Trinity, Saguenay River, Moonlight
1904, Winslow Homer
Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA

Primavera Eterna
1884, Auguste Rodin
Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois USA

Iconic Vincent van Gogh

Today, I visit the Van Gogh in America exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts for the third and final time.

When and where else will I ever get a chance to see so much of his artwork in one place?

Sure, traveling to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands is on my to-do list, yet it'll be years yet.

Therefore, I've collected a few silly Van gogh images from social media for the entertainment of my readers:

2023 Fat Cat Art Calendar

So excited to get this in the mail,

Artist Svetlana Petrova has the incredible talent to improve artwork with her beautiful, photogenic cats Celestial Zarathustra, Tyger, and David Bowie. 

Tyger, in the vase, as Celestial Zarathustra watches.

David Bowie as pussy willow fluffs!

Zarathustra in a Paul Gauguin's 1892 "When Will You Marry?"

Look!

Celestial Zarathustra was playing in Vincent van Gogh's 1888 "Artist's Chair"...

...and I was standing in front of the unimproved version just a few days ago at the "Van Gogh in America" exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts!

To order your own, or other wonderful artwork:

FatCatArt

Previous posts:

2018 FatCatArt Calendar

2019 FatCatArt Calendar

2020 FatCatArt Calendar

2021 FatCatArt Calendar

2022 FatCatArt Calendar

Disclaimer: 

I purchased 2023 Fat Cat Art calendar for my personal use.

I only post about items that I believe others will enjoy, and for no financial gain for myself.

Van Gogh Sketch

For Caturday, I'm not using my own artwork, but a sketch of Vincent van Gogh's "Daubigny's Garden", that the artist included in a letter to his brother, Theo.

This relates to our Thursday post: Van Gogh in America

Click on the image above to enjoy a jigsaw puzzle.
Note the cat is there!

This is an image of the Van Gogh letter.

Van Gogh in America, exhibiting until January 22, 2023 at the Detroit Institute of Arts.

Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. 

The son of a minister, van Gogh suffered his entire life with mental health issues.

He began work at age 16, when his uncle got him a job as a trainee with an art dealership in The Hague.  

Vincent also was employed at the firm’s London and Paris offices before he was fired in 1876. 

Afterward, he was briefly a schoolteacher in England, then worked at a bookstore back in the Netherlands. 

In 1878, he went to the Borinage, a mining district in Belgium, and worked among the poor as a lay preacher; he gave away his belongings and slept on floors, but after less than a year on the job the religious organization sponsoring van Gogh decided he wasn’t cut out to be a pastor and dismissed him. 

His next career choice, artist, would of course make him internationally famous, although not until after his death.

  

In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of which date from the last two years of his life.

Born: March 30, 1853, Zundert, Netherlands

Died: July 29, 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise, France

Periods: Realism, Post-Impressionism, Modern art, Impressionism, Japonisme, Cloisonnism, Pointillism, Neo-Impressionism

This is the only other image of a cat in van Gogh's entire catalog of images. 

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Van Gogh in America

Am beyond thankful for a chance to visit The Detroit Institute of Arts, to enjoy the Van Gogh in America exhibition!

For more information, click HERE.

And just so you know, Vincent Van Gogh did NOT include cats in his artwork...except I found one!!!!

"Daubigny's Garden", 1890
Look at the cat in the bottom left!

Close up!

Here's a few highlights:

Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux, 1888-89

Roses, 1890

Sharry Night over the Rhone, 1888

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Thanks to my sister and niece, who were able to wrestle me from the gift shop before I spent any money!