this post was submitted on 21 May 2026
279 points (99.3% liked)

Trippin' Through Time

6982 readers
96 users here now

Tripping' Through Time

A Lemmy community for historic art pieces overhauled into modern memes.

Rules

  1. Only image uploads allowed
  2. Only edited, historical images may be shared
  3. The instance rules of https://lemmy.ca/

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
Wololo@lemmy.ca
gigachad@piefed.social
lokalhorst@feddit.org
279
Naturally (piefed.cdn.blahaj.zone)
submitted 1 month ago by LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/trippinthroughtime@lemmy.ca
10 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

I want to say that's it's moreso just a case of technique ever-improving. Also a case of a certain art style being en vogue and normalised, suggesting that a more physically accurate-looking cat might have been less welcome or expected than the style of the day.

You can add "expression" to that second point, also.