75 works of art brought together in a virtual exhibition devoted entirely to cats

There is a virtual museum that collaborates with museum institutions to make a single exhibit available to the whole world, online and free of charge: it is UMA (Universal Museum of Art). Its goal is the democratization of culture by facilitating access to art, making museums familiar to the public, showing collections and entertaining visitors with immersive virtual reality exhibits.

UMA is now making available, for the first time, an exhibition devoted entirely to cats: 75 works of art, from Ancient Egypt to the present, depicting beloved felines as the sole subjects or hidden among many characters. And each work illustrates different themes and intents: moments of pure tenderness, religious scenes, domestic everyday life, and tales of felines with extraordinary powers.

Cats in Ancient Egypt were sacred, likened to a deity; within religiously themed paintings the cat sometimes represents Satan. But small felines are often depicted in artists’ studios, as a familiar presence, or they may also represent the free and independent spirit of the painter himself. And again, cats may be depicted in portraits of young women in a seductive attitude.

The exhibition is in collaboration with RMN - Grand Palais and can be visited at https://www.the-uma.org/, using only a screen and a mouse, but you can also visit it in VR option.

Enjoy your virtual visit and have fun finding all the cats hidden in the paintings!

Pictured is the detail of the cat depicted in Manet’s Olympia.

75 works of art brought together in a virtual exhibition devoted entirely to cats

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