Artists always use something beautiful as their source of inspiration - and what could actually be more beautiful than cats? No, I’m being absolutely serious - cats are incredible, even for me as a ...

Artists and sculptors have always sought to draw inspiration from beauty. And what, after all, could be more beautiful than ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rebecca Salinas, 21, has been drawing cats since she could hold a pencil. Now studying for a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, she’s combining her creative skills with her love of kitties to brighten ...

Françoise Hardy likely never expected to be possessed by the spirit of Kellyanne Conway. ‘Alternative Face v1.1,’ uploaded to YouTube by the artist and programmer Mario Klingemann, combines a neural ...

"He had made the cat his own. He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world. English cats that do not look and live like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of themselves." So proclaimed the ...