Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Eva and Franco Mattes, Ceiling Cat.jpg

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File:Eva and Franco Mattes, Ceiling Cat.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Ceiling Cat by Eva and Franco Mattes
  • I guess all that white space is so that you can use it for whatever meme text you care to add to this particular Ceiling Cat photo. And to be clear, it's not a photo on a ceiling but an art installation. To put it bluntly, some artists took a dead stuffed cat and put it in a hole in an art gallery ceiling, to make a sort of 3D version of the internet occurrence called Ceiling Cat. --Cart (talk) 00:28, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose I hope this is seen as a valid reason to oppose, but the artwork holds no interest for me. The image quality is very good, but I think when I judge a digital reproduction of artwork I judge it in part on what merits I believe it holds as well as on the quality of the reproduction. This may be an internet curiosity but I don't see it as interesting or important art. Cmao20 (talk) 11:23, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose likely the original photo this is recreating was a live cat, but this is taxidermy.--BevinKacon (talk) 11:54, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Making the taxidermy look so realistic is, in my opinion, an impressive feat. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 05:46, 19 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose This doesn't work for me. Basically, I don't find this cat interesting, then I don't like the very large white background, and to finish there are technical issues in my opinion, some parts seem overexposed -- Basile Morin (talk) 14:39, 19 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    • The "large white background" is necessary to show that this is a ceiling and clearly connect this piece to the meme. The ceiling is as much a subject of the work as the cat. This is not a work about a cat. It is a work about the meme. It plays on the ideas of originality, reproduction, derivative works, appropriation and plagiarism. It challenges you to ask "what is original at all?" in this age of social media, the internet, and wide proliferation of copies of images. Can appropriated works be considered original? Can a derivative work be considered artistic? --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 09:00, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • A lot of questions you ask but that don't come to my mind when I look at this image. "Just a boring cat" is still my main impression. The artist may have spent a lot of time on lolcats everywhere on facebook, but I haven't, and feel ok without -- Basile Morin (talk) 09:14, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • My take on it would be that the concept of Ceiling Cat is funny and philosophically interesting, as a sculpture/installation IRL it is good, but unfortunately it doesn't translate into a good photo. Perhaps if there was someone interacting with this Ceiling Cat, it would make a really good photo. (For the record: I love LOLcats. I have made many myself, some with my old now departed cat posing for them. I have books with them. I look them up online. But most of them would not make good photos.) --Cart (talk) 11:28, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 2 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /--Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:34, 27 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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