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42 Famous Artworks Made Funnier By Svetlana Petrova Inserting Her Orange Cat Into Them (New Pics)

What happens when some of the world’s most famous masterpieces get an unexpected feline addition? Artist Svetlana Petrova’s ongoing Fat Cat Art project answers that question by inserting her beloved ginger cat, Zarathustra, into iconic works by Van Gogh, Vermeer, Dalí, Botticelli, Magritte, and many others. With his dramatic poses,…

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Brussels central square transformed into giant Japan-inspired flower carpet

Inspired by Hokusai’s 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa,' the carpet features more than 700,000 flowers and measures approximately 70 metres long and 24 metres wide.

Euronews

Brussels unveils giant flower carpet inspired by Hokusai masterpiece

Brussels has transformed its historic Grand Place into a giant floral version of Japan’s Great Wave off Kanagawa, using around 500,000 dahlias laid out over 1,300 square metres of cobblestones.

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This Page Shared 14 Paintings By Famous Artists That Rarely Get The Attention They Deserve

Some paintings become so famous that they end up defining an artist's entire legacy. As a result, hundreds of other works, often just as technically impressive or historically fascinating, remain largely overlooked. Looking beyond the masterpieces offers a different perspective, revealing unexpected subjects, experimental ideas, and lesser-known moments in the…

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Beneath the Great Wave: Hokusai and Hiroshige review – how two Japanese masters reinvented art

Hokusai’s breathtaking woodblock print may be ubiquitous today but, as this startling show reminds us, it’s also an apocalyptic vision of a world about to change

The Guardian - UK

The Great Wave review – Hokusai opera sounds and looks beautiful but skimps on drama

There are strong performances and much to admire in Dai Fujikura and Harry Ross’s opera about the Japanese artist, but it feels strangely inert

The Guardian - UK

Masterpiece, fridge magnet, phone case … opera: how Hokusai’s The Great Wave hit the stage

He survived a stroke, a lightning strike, a fire – and created one of the world’s most recognisable images. Now the Japanese artist’s ‘wild, fascinating’ life has inspired an opera

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How images of the 2011 tsunami in Japan led me to examine connections with water in photography, sound and sculpture

In everyday language when we describe something as “salient” we mean what’s most central.

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