Fat Cat Art
Famous Masterpieces Improved by a Ginger Cat with Attitude. Svetlana Petrova and Zarathustra the Cat
(Sprache: Englisch)
Artist Svetlana Petrova lives in Russia with her lovable feline muse, Zarathustra. Petrova's work was featured in a British exhibition entitled "Russian Extremes-from Icons to I-Cats."
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Artist Svetlana Petrova lives in Russia with her lovable feline muse, Zarathustra. Petrova's work was featured in a British exhibition entitled "Russian Extremes-from Icons to I-Cats."
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It s official. That thing that classic art has been missing is a chubby reclining kitty. The Huffington Post
Internet meme meets classical art in Svetlana Petrova s brilliant Fat Cat Art. Featuring her twenty-two-pound, ginger-colored cat Zarathustra superimposed onto some of the greatest artworks of all time, Petrova s paintings are an Internet sensation. Now fans will have the ultimate full-color collection of her work, including several never-before-seen pieces, to savor for themselves or to give as a gift to fellow cat lovers.
From competing with Venus s sexy reclining pose (and almost knocking her off her chaise lounge in the process) in Titian s Venus of Urbino, to exhibiting complete disdain as he skirts away from God s pointing finger in Michelangelo s Creation of Adam, Zarathustra single-handedly rewrites art history in the way that only an adorable fat cat can.
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Circa 1955, Toksovo, Russia, self-portrait by Tatiana Iskuzhina
How I Met Zarathustra the Cat
Perhaps you were a bit surprised to see on the cover of this book that my coauthor is not a human, but a Cat. It is not a joke or a marketing trick; the impact of Zarathustra on my work is so important that he fully deserves to be coauthor of our Fat Cat Art project.
First let me introduce myself. My name is Svetlana Petrova. I am a woman living in St. Petersburg, Russia. I am a graduate of the Faculty of Philosophy of St. Petersburg State University. After graduating with a first-class degree, I discovered that I am too independent to work in the system. So I became an artist.
In fact, I had been drawing and writing poetry from childhood. My mother taught me everything, although she was not a professional artist herself. She was an engineer and a teacher of cybernetics at the St. Petersburg Naval Institute, but she was an artist in her soul. My mother made beautiful black-and-white photos, which she then painted in aquarelle colors, such as the self-portrait on the dedication page. You can see she was a beautiful and elegant woman. So it s no surprise that my path in art began in the fields of fashion and theater. I created a bizarre fashion show called L.E.M. Laboratory of Experimental Models and toured it all over Europe in the nineties.
I have always been very curious and liked to investigate new fields, so I decided to become an event producer. I got acquainted with lots of interesting people in my travels and wanted to present their art in my country and so I brought to Russia some live music and theater acts. Meanwhile I was interested in implanting video screens in my costumes and did so with a screen displaying interactive moving images controlled by computer. Thus I fell in love with animation. And in 2003, I created the International Festival of Animation Arts: Multivision, now
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one of the oldest and biggest international animation festivals, with a professional jury, in Russia. It is famous for my large-scale video installations on the raised drawbridges over the Neva River in St. Petersburg that take place each summer.
So everything was fine, and in 2008 more than fifty thousand spectators gathered at the giant video installation on the two main bridges of St. Petersburg. It was my biggest triumph. My mother was so proud of me and we spent a wonderful time in her summerhouse, once I had recovered from the hard work.
And then my mother died.
I was her only child, and other than me she just had one beloved being, a ginger Cat, Zarathustra. Of course I adopted him after her death. Zarathustra was and is a living memory of my mother. She asked me to take care of him, and so I do, as far as I can.
Here I should say that I am very close to Cats because my family always had Cats, going as far back as we can trace our history (from the nineteenth century). I grew up with a little kitten called Marussia, or just Murka, who was the same age as me. I would say we developed some kind of telepathic liaison. It was so sad that she died from old age when I was only fifteen! So it is natural for me to understand Cats.
Then our family had an unbelievable ginger Cat called Vladimir Vorotnikov, or simply Vova. He was a philosopher and a talking Cat. You know Cats try to imitate human speech when you talk to them often. It s a known fact that was revealed by a group of zoological psychologists. Other zoological psychologists who differ on this point, by the way, are not worthy of their degrees!
As well as Vova, I had an adorable Cat-actor named Marcus Aurelius Wolfgang Amadeus. Marc the Cat performed in my shows Swan Lake II and Moulin Russe . . . wherein he played the role of the God of Mice, wearing wings made of feathers that perfectly matched in color his gray tabby fur.
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So everything was fine, and in 2008 more than fifty thousand spectators gathered at the giant video installation on the two main bridges of St. Petersburg. It was my biggest triumph. My mother was so proud of me and we spent a wonderful time in her summerhouse, once I had recovered from the hard work.
And then my mother died.
I was her only child, and other than me she just had one beloved being, a ginger Cat, Zarathustra. Of course I adopted him after her death. Zarathustra was and is a living memory of my mother. She asked me to take care of him, and so I do, as far as I can.
Here I should say that I am very close to Cats because my family always had Cats, going as far back as we can trace our history (from the nineteenth century). I grew up with a little kitten called Marussia, or just Murka, who was the same age as me. I would say we developed some kind of telepathic liaison. It was so sad that she died from old age when I was only fifteen! So it is natural for me to understand Cats.
Then our family had an unbelievable ginger Cat called Vladimir Vorotnikov, or simply Vova. He was a philosopher and a talking Cat. You know Cats try to imitate human speech when you talk to them often. It s a known fact that was revealed by a group of zoological psychologists. Other zoological psychologists who differ on this point, by the way, are not worthy of their degrees!
As well as Vova, I had an adorable Cat-actor named Marcus Aurelius Wolfgang Amadeus. Marc the Cat performed in my shows Swan Lake II and Moulin Russe . . . wherein he played the role of the God of Mice, wearing wings made of feathers that perfectly matched in color his gray tabby fur.
Marc
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Autoren-Porträt von Svetlana Petrova
Svetlana Petrova is an artist, producer, and curator living in St. Petersburg, Russia. She is the founder and director of the International Festival of Animation Arts, "Multivision." In 2011, she created FatCatArt.com an experiment to combine art history and the spirit of LOLcats. Her "famous paintings improved by cats" went viral and became an internet sensation. She adopted her feline coauthor and mews, Zarathustra, when her mother died. Loved and spoiled by Svetlana s mother, this 8-year-old ginger tabby cat is 10 kilos of pure undisturbed joy, although he is trying to diet.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Svetlana Petrova
- 2015, 304 Seiten, Maße: 17,6 x 17,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Tarcher
- ISBN-10: 0399174788
- ISBN-13: 9780399174780
- Erscheinungsdatum: 03.09.2015
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
On Svetlana Petrova:"Hilarious"
Daily Mail
"Every nerd loves a great cat meme, and artist Svetlana Petrova s work on classic paintings featuring her big ginger cat Zarathustra takes it to a whole new level."
Nerdalicious
"Russian artist Svetlana Petrova has created a series of cat-infused classic art pieces. An ode to her own cat Zarathustra, Petrova's work is unlike any other series."
Trend Hunter
"Now that's what we call a masterpuss."
Oxford Mail
"A Russian artist has taken hundreds of classic paintings and Photoshoppped her pet cat Zarathustra into them, making them, in our opinion, 89426576 times better."
Metro
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