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Title: Why Cats Paint - it's real!
Post by: Eleven Mike on February 03, 2007, 03:37:13 PM: I was at a bookstore with my wife last night, when she reminded me that I'd been meaning to pick up a wall calender. The selection was cheap, but not extensive. I have a hard time picking out calenders, as there's not many pictures I actually want to see for a whole month. Although I'm NOT a cat person, I decided to get this wacky calender with pictures of cats painting. That's right, cats smearing paint on walls with their paws.

I opened it up to look at it today, and it's full of all this nonsense about respecting the art of non-primates and encouraging cats to express their vision of the world without letting the art become overly-commercialzed. Each cat artist represented was written up with some folderol about their influences and style and so forth. This being the twenty-first century, I couldn't tell if this was serious or a spoof.

I went to the publisher's website, and saw nothing unusual. It was founded in Berkeley, so I was starting to think this was meant in earnest. Them leftists are nuts, don't ya know. So, I looked up Why Cats Paint on Yahoo, and got the following website. It was only when I noticed the bird art that I began to be very concerned that if this was not a spoof, someone had escaped from the institution and was terribly overdue for electro-shock therapy

http://www.monpa.com/index.htm

Finally, I looked it up on Wiki.
Title: Re: Why Cats Paint - it's real!
Post by: Devonai on February 03, 2007, 05:12:30 PM: My cat considers her deposits into the litter box to be art. Why else would she spend so much time digging?
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Post by: Lee on February 03, 2007, 05:19:03 PM: My cat's works in clay really stink.
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Post by: glockfan.45 on February 03, 2007, 05:20:34 PM: OMG!..............Seems the inmates really are running the asylum.
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Post by: gunsmith on February 03, 2007, 05:31:38 PM: the cat tells me he doesn't hold them cat artist in high regard, why should he paint
when his personal chaufer(sic) could handle the job for him?
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Post by: Standing Wolf on February 03, 2007, 09:18:07 PM: You should hear my cat sing.
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Post by: glockfan.45 on February 04, 2007, 04:05:28 AM: I read a little more on the subject and was digusted to learn how they teach these cats to paint. They will mix in a sample of the cats urine with the paint. This encourages the cat to dip its paws and spread its scent over the canvas to mark its territory . Now who in the Hell figured that little trick out and why is beyond me.
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Post by: slzy on February 04, 2007, 04:25:34 AM: would'nt it be quicker just to dip the cat in the paint?
Title: Re: Why Cats Paint - it's real!
Post by: Dannyboy on February 04, 2007, 04:28:47 AM: Quote from: slzy on February 04, 2007, 03:25:34 AM
would'nt it be quicker just to dip the cat in the paint?
And then swing it by its tail, resulting in a Jackson Pollack effect.
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Post by: Perd Hapley on February 04, 2007, 09:27:54 AM: I heard they mixed some of Pollack's urine with his paint. Had the same effect.
Title: Re: Why Cats Paint - it's real!
Post by: Fly320s on February 04, 2007, 10:27:58 AM: Quote from: slzy on February 04, 2007, 03:25:34 AM
would'nt it be quicker just to dip the cat in the paint?
How do you clean the cat?

Or would you even bother?
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Post by: pluvo on February 04, 2007, 10:48:43 AM: http://youtube.com/watch?v=15bwhVxw-Bg
Title: Re: Why Cats Paint - it's real!
Post by: TMM on February 04, 2007, 03:26:54 PM: you know, i'm pretty sure that this IS a spoof, yet the paintings and all are real. there's a sequel called "why paint cats", which is excellent, with lots of phony descriptions as well.

~tmm
Title: Re: Why Cats Paint - it's real!
Post by: MechAg94 on February 04, 2007, 03:31:53 PM: I would like to see them get that cat into that wash machine a second time.