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For as long as I can remember, I’ve been a lover of art and art history. I studied it in school, worked in the gallery and framing industry for years, and sell my own paintings off and on from home. I can’t get online without obsessively checking social media for hot new artists’ work to drool over. Art seems to be an integral part of who I am. And yet, when it came to naming my own cats, I never thought to use art inspired cat names! I suppose it does depend on the cats in question. The names Bear and Chickadee suit my babies well.
If you’re in the market for an artistic cat name, check out this list! I’ve included names of famous artists, art terms, colors, really anything and everything I could think of that has to do with art. Sometimes the artist names are in their entirety, and sometimes as just the first or last name, depending on how I think it sounds. But of course these are just ideas and they all have lots of room for interpretation. Many of them would work well shortened.
You might notice there is a bit of an Italian Renaissance influence throughout the list (I took way too many Renaissance art history classes in college; I couldn’t get enough.) As always, please comment below with your own thoughts and ideas for great art-themed cat names!
A
- Abstract
- Alabaster
- Alberti
- Alex Katz
- Alice Neel
- Alizarin Crimson
- Allegory
- Alloy
- Alma
- Andy Warhol
- Annie Liebovitz
- Ansel Adams
- Anselm Kiefer
- Artemisia Gentileschi
- Azure
B
- Banksy
- Baroque
- Basquiat
- Batik
- Bauhaus
- Beauty
- Binder
- Bob Ross
- Bokeh
- Botticelli
- Brunelleschi
C
- Caravaggio
- Carrara
- Camille Claudel
- Cerise
- Cerulean
- Cézanne
- Chamois
- Charcoal
- Chine Collé
- Christo
- Cimabue
- Clay
- Clementine Hunter
- Cobalt Blue
- Contour
- Copper
- Cosimo
- Crosshatch
- Crackle
- Cy Twombly
D – E
- Dada
- Della Robbia
- Diane Arbus
- Diego Rivera
- Donatello
- Dorothea Tanning
- Dresden
- Ebony
- Edvard Munch
- El Greco
F
- Facade
- Florence
- Forge
- Francis Bacon
- Francisco Goya
- Fresco
- Frida Kahlo
- Fuschia
G
- Georgia O’Keeffe
- Gesso
- Giclée
- Giotto
- Graffiti
- Grandma Moses
- Grog
- Guggenheim
- Gustav Klimt
H – I
- Harmony
- Harriet Powers
- Helen Frankenthaler
- Henri Matisse
- Hieronymus
- Hilma af Klint
- Homer
- Hue
- Illusion
- Impasto
- Indigo
- Intaglio
J – K
- Jackson Pollock
- Jade
- Jasper Johns
- Janet Fish
- Jeanne-Claude
- Joan Miró
- Judy Chicago
- Kitsch
L
- Lapis Lazuli
- Lavender
- Lavinia
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Lino
- Lizzie Siddal
- Lorenzo
- Luisa Casati
M
- Magritte
- Man Ray
- Manet
- Mandala
- Marina Abromavic
- Mary Cassatt
- Medici
- Merz
- MoMA
- Mona Lisa
- Monet
- Montage
- Mosaic
- Motif
- Muse
N – O
- Naples
- Nuka
- Ochre
- Old Master
- Olive
- Origami
P
- Pablo Picasso
- Paris
- Passpartout
- Pastel
- Patina
- Paul Klee
- Peapod (Bob Ross’s squirrel)
- Periwinkle
- Piet Mondrian
- Pietà
- Pink
- Porcelain
- Pose
- Provenance
R
- Raku
- Raphael
- Rembrandt
- Renaissance
- Render
- Renoir
- Resist
- Rococo
- Roma
- Roman
- Romare Bearden
- Rose Madder
- Rubens
S
- Sable
- Salvador Dali
- Sargent
- Satire
- Scarlet
- Scumble
- Seascape
- Sepia
- Sfumato
- Shade
- Sienna
- Sketch
- Sotheby
- Spectrum
T – U
- Tate
- Tempera
- Terracotta
- Titian
- Turquoise
- Uffizi
- Ulay
- Umberto
V
- Vasari
- Vigée Le Brun
- Violet
- Viridian
- Van Dyke Brown
- Venus
- Vermeer
- Viridian
- Vignette
- Vincent Van Gogh
W – Y
- Wassily Kandinsky
- Whistler
- Winslow
- Wisteria
- Yayoi Kusama
- Yupo
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