
Enjoy These Side-by-Sides of Male Art and Cat Toys
BY
Jael Goldfine | Sep 27, 2019
Do you remember the "XYZ celebrity as household object" meme format? Do you recall classics like "Hayley Williams as dish detergents," "Ariana Grande as drills," "Charli XCX as chips," or "Tyler, the Creator as Yankee candles"?
Well, have you ever considered the resemblance of certain artworks by men to mass produced cat toys? Art critic @claire_voon spotted some uncanny similarities between works by folks like Ai Weiwei, Donald Judd, Sol Lewitt and Isamu Noguchi and popular pet retailer Chewy's catalogue. Now, thanks to her, we have a visual aid to help expand our imaginations and healthy skepticism of the art world.
For each, please consider how you'd react if you saw it in Dia Beacon. Tell the truth.
According to Paddle8, this piece, created "using woodworking techniques perfected during the Ming Dynasty," was quite literally inspired by one of Wewei's cat's toys (as well as Leonardo Da Vinci's notion of "Divine Proportions").
The side-by-side really emphasizes how "a morphology of geometric, predominantly rectangular forms has been accepted as a given premise."
Höller has been called the "Willy Wonka of sculpture."
What are we but large animals walking around cities enjoying the pleasing shapes and colors?
Your aesthete cat/boyfriend will love this piece.
For Warholian inclined kitties.
Cats, like Oldenberg, enjoy the sensationalization of the everyday.
What I would give to see a herd of cats set loose on "100 Untitled Works in Mill Aluminum."
Photo via Twitter