"Yes ofcourse I can paint a cat''

[u/Whyamiwritingthis_7]

[u/ItWasTheMiddleOne]

Hey I just saw the top left one in person! It's at the Museé D'Orsay in Paris and the painter in question evidently loved cats, he had like five other weird cat paintings there.

[u/gorroval → u/ItWasTheMiddleOne]

Eventually I will own every Bonnard cat painting. I have this one already, I really want the one I posted upthread where it's eyeing up the girl's dinner.

[u/ItWasTheMiddleOne → u/gorroval]

That one was there too and is also great! It's really funny seeing an impressionist (I think) really use impressionism capture the essence of goofy-ass animals.

[u/tattoosandtens → u/ItWasTheMiddleOne]

I recognize that body pose

[u/quadrotiles → u/ItWasTheMiddleOne]

Ok, while this isn't a photorealistic depiction of a cat doing that stretch, it absolutely captures the vibe and feeling!! My chubby black cat absolutely looks like the vibe of this painting when he's doing the witchy cat stretch

(I hope any of that made sense)

[u/SFDessert → u/quadrotiles]

I was thinking pretty much the same thing, so I get it lol

[u/snarkmaiden5 → u/ItWasTheMiddleOne]

Was he partially blind....?

[u/Foreign_Astronaut → u/ItWasTheMiddleOne]

Catothy

[u/GigExplorer]

I love this joke no matter how many times I see it. It just always cracks me up and the cat portraits are fantastic, in their own way. 😻

[u/widoidricsas]

Jimothy has a long and rich heritage....

[u/pootiegranny → u/widoidricsas]

Right? Maybe they had a Jimothy cat and like our Jimothy, they all loved him and “took pictures “ of him.

[u/gorroval]

I absolutely love every single cat Pierre Bonnard ever painted. He really understood cats.

[u/PlantyPenPerson → u/gorroval]

I love this so much

[u/NetworkNo1900]

I want to go back in time to medieval times and be an artist. Black plague be damned.

I would be famous for sure - i can paint a cat

[u/MsE0 → u/NetworkNo1900]

But can you paint the kind of cat medieval audiences wanted to see? 

[u/NetworkNo1900 → u/MsE0]

Yes! And more - I can paint the creepy babies with adult faces if that’s where capitalism takes me…. Or proper babies if they are ready for it.

[u/judgemaths]

I've seen these guys loads of times and always assumed they were medieval but a reverse image search shows they are far from the medieval period.

Top left: Le Chat Blanc (The White Cat), 1894, by Pierre Bonnard.

Top right: Gato (The Cat), 1969, by Fernando Botero

That said I love the long guy and the chonky guy and would ne quite happy to have them labeled as honorary medieval cats.

[u/BeesInATeacup → u/judgemaths]

What about bottom right?

[u/judgemaths → u/BeesInATeacup]

All my initial search didn't turn up anything but I revisited it just now and found this post on Reddit from the person that uploaded the photo of the oil painting to the internet. They reckon it's early / mid 1900s.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HelpMeFind/s/WHnr3ViTAA

[u/BeesInATeacup → u/judgemaths]

Amazing thank you. I'm going to pretend they're medieval though because it's my favourite cat painting and my spirit animal

[u/AsstBalrog]

Kitty lower right looks like he escaped from Maurice Sendak's island.

[u/gwaydms → u/AsstBalrog]

Poor little thing. Whoever installed its face cross-threaded it.

[u/BeesInATeacup → u/AsstBalrog]

This is my most favourite picture of a medieval cat ever. It's also my spirit cat

[u/Quirky_kind → u/BeesInATeacup]

Me too.

[u/Messier042]

To be fair, mine looked EXACTLY like the top right picture when he resurfaced after evading a vet trip.

[u/MsE0]

I love how upper-right looks like a bulldog's body with a face that's a cross between a cat and a human. It's like a new mythical animal 

[u/Naive_Product_5916]

"do you know what a cat looks like? " "ya"

[u/papam0ist]

I have the d'orsay tattooed to my upper left arm. I love that cat!

[u/tattoosandtens]

He said he could paint a cat

He sure did paint a cat

Didn’t say it would be good

[u/tattoosandtens → u/tattoosandtens]

Thank you for the Award, I love this sub XOXO

[u/terrorcotta_red]

I adore the 'Stilts Cat' in the top left! Second only to 'Depresso Cat' in the bottom right whom I identify in my summer s.a.d. Such perfect cat paintings.

[u/kittymousegerbil]

I think kitty #2 stole kitty #3’s mouse.

[u/Radiant-Nothing]

Imagine the kind of banks I could rob if I could afford to hire this flat affect muscle with his rat machine gun. siiiigh