The devil’s in the details.
1. A Twitter user was admiring this beautiful flower painting when she noticed something truly bizarre.
wow imagine being THIS good at painting flowers and yet completely incapable of rendering even a passable image of a cat pic.twitter.com/ZMV3LWRlZN
— if u fav my tweets it means u love communism (@chelsesaurusrex) May 12, 2018
2. Yeah, it’s very impressive, but wow…
this is Abraham Mignon btw, a Dutch master who paints incredibly lifelike snails and moths and dragonflies as well as flowers but wow that cat is fucking throwing me off so bad
— if u fav my tweets it means u love communism (@chelsesaurusrex) May 12, 2018
3. Let’s take a closer look at this thing.
😂😂😂😂😂 mood all summer ’18 pic.twitter.com/oqxXfiNXR3
— fiddlesticks….. (@youdamnskippy) May 12, 2018
4. Clearly.
Prior to the 1700s no one knew how to draw babies or animals tbh
— fuckin' hooray (@shutupalicia) May 12, 2018
5. How. Did. This. Happen.
It literally has a human nose I can’t stop laughing pic.twitter.com/zqxleVeK0u
— kleo mcq (@kleo_patraa) May 13, 2018
6. This could be an explanation for the monstrosity.
YES ABSOLUTELY I was wondering if someone would bring this up! Cats were still (negatively) associated with witches and magic in the 17th century and ppl thought they were creepy so maybe he had a bias against cats and/or really wasn’t familiar with what they looked like
— if u fav my tweets it means u love communism (@chelsesaurusrex) May 14, 2018
7. Obviously, people have other examples.
Badly painted renaissance animals are everywhere. This fine example from Berlin @wormington12 pic.twitter.com/LuloWoOQwW
— Noonie (@HansSchmuz) May 13, 2018
8. What a beaut.
— Wei (@w__h_) May 13, 2018
9. Not entirely sure why this one was added to the thread. That’s just a regular cat.
— amy (@thelastoflight) May 13, 2018
10. Oh no.
— Thomas Fuchs 😽 (@thomasfuchs) May 12, 2018
11. It didn’t matter if it’s cats or dogs, they all looked terrible.
— jazz treehouse (@jazztreehouse) May 13, 2018
12. And obviously: people are turning the poor catman into a meme.
— three forma nekros prime (@glassedplanets) May 13, 2018
When everything seems to be going wrong for you and you can’t understand why pic.twitter.com/QdpSUhNdqM
— . (@tofuwachii) May 13, 2018
But don’t worry, we found the real cat and it’s actually a very accurate portrait.
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