The Meownster strikes back: Catzilla pops up in the Venetian Lagoon

Today We, Zarathustra the Cat, reveal the true version of the famous Paul Signac painting depicting the Venice look from the seaside, which appeared to be disturbed by Catzilla’s totally unexpected intervention:

Paul Signac, Venice: The Pink Cloud and Ginger Catzilla Bathing

What seemed to be the pink cloud in the commonly known version of the painting at the Albertina Museum, Vienna:

Paul Signac, Venice: The Pink Cloud, the Albertina Museum, Vienna

it appeared to be a bunch of water droplets from Catzilla shaking his head after the lagoon dive!

Paul Signac, Venice: The Pink Cloud and Ginger Catzilla Bathing, Catzilla shaking his head

The meownster decided to take a bath on a hot summer day, which is totally understandable, keeping in mind climate change and waves of heat striking Europe.

What is not too understandable is that such a big baby played with the ships, as with rubber ducks in a bathtub, and stomped the seabed so hard that the tower on the shore leaned, as in Pisa.

Paul Signac, Venice: The Pink Cloud and Ginger Catzilla Bathing, close-up

The conservative art critics of the time were in rage: “Catzilla doesn’t exist, and it belongs to Japanese tradition! Stop cultural appropriation! The leaning tower is in Pisa; stop using another city’s attraction point! Venice is Serenissima, so please be so kind as to make the landscape as serene as you can!”

With trembling hands, Signac painted Catzilla out, straightened the tower, appeased the water, and returned the ships to the calm sea surface. Only the pink cloud of water droplets remained from the meownster’s attack.

Nowadays, when postmodernism rules art, and you can remix everything with anything, it’s time to reveal the origin of the pink cloud – Catzilla shaking his head after a bath, dispersing water droplets everywhere around him!