![]() ![]() They are a part of practically every nation’s traditions and history for a splendid variety of reasons, one of the biggest being - superstition. To understand the craze and our fascination with felines, we must dig into the ways we’ve created an entire culture around them over the course of centuries. Today, we’ve got some of the most important modern and contemporary artists painting, sculpting, filming, photographing and digitally-creating cat culture, for instance, riding on the rich, thousands of years long legacy of cat art. However, the beginning of their reign dates way back in history, meaning that human beings were always quite obsessed with the felines, most notably through strong symbolism and even mythology. Come to think of it, are there even other animals in art at all? So typical of cats to rule the kingdom on their own. Some might even say that cat art is a phenomenon which came to be with the arrival of the internet nowadays we are overwhelmed with videos, pictures, vines, snaps, memes, boomerangs and emojis of kittens to the point where actual works of the arts dedicated to these animals and exhibited in museums and galleries around the world were bound to happen sooner rather than later. You can hate them, you can love them, but there is no doubt that cats are present in almost every sphere of our lives - meaning in art, too.
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