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Still watching this youtube channel about what I can only describe as "Dark Classical art" and this one absolutely floored me because I was unaware of it and I want to share it because it changes my perspective on this artist completely.

You might be aware of Louis Wain. If not by name then by his art. He's the artist behind that series of cat drawings that slowly became more and more abstract and bizarre.

This series of paintings of cats are often labelled as a visual representation of Wain's deteriorating mental illness and schizophrenia. Even more so often labelled as "a tragic display of a painter's failing battle with schizophrenia."

The paintings look like this and were painted around the very early 1900s.

Ok got all that?

So here's the thing.

Although Wain did suffer from a mental illness that was strong enough for him to be institutionalized, his mental illness was never diagnosed with clear certainty. Although "Schizophrenia" is so heavily applied to him based purely on how his series of paintings LOOK, despite actual specialists widely disputing this. On top of this, although he did paint the kaleidoscope cat portraits during this time, it was not the only things he painted, and he was quite capable of painting "normal" pictures of cats.

The Kaleidoscope Cat portraits are more images of him experimenting with colour and shapes, something the Smithsonian themselves state on their website.

Wain had actually made his entire living painting whimsical images of cats, often for product adverts, before he was incarcerated and was actually a very beloved artist at the time. When his friends learned of his incarceration, they started a collection of donation money to help transfer Wain to the Bethlam Royal Hospital instead, one of the best mental health facilities of the time. Even the Prime Minster of the time donated, and they raised a large amount of money across England to help him.

4 years later, Wain drew this as his final image which he released publicly

I knew all about "the Schizophrenic cat Guy" but he had always been presented to me as some tragic case of an artist going mad and his skills and work unraveling as he went insane.

Which is why I wanted to share this information which was new to me. And because I think it's important.

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chibikko uribon wild boar collection (amuse)

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Steve Harringron in season 1 of Stranger Things is the most character. He did some bad stuff and immediately went "Aw, beans. That wasn't cool. I better go apologize" at which point The Plot he'd been blissfully unaware of for the entire show immediately tried to eat him.

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REBLOG to fuck a WIZARD

IGNORE for PENIS CURSE

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Rainbow Kitten Surprise - Devil Like Me

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Line cooks and the weed man do more for the human race every day than any CEO has ever done in their entire life

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hey man sorry im late. yeah i gave a mouse a cookie. you know how it is

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making eye-contact with yourself in the side mirror of your best friend's car as you hurtle down an empty road, windows down, breeze caressing your face, confronted with the reality that the person staring back at you through that tiny little window can be contained in a single image regardless of how much you feel the countless pieces of yourself scattered across your bedroom floor, tucked into forgotten corners of your kitchen, floating down the aisles of your dingy little grocery store

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maybe this silly little coffee drink will equip me to face the unrelenting and unendurable horror of existence

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This is the current mood

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u don’t understand i have to bite u

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Boys in China dropping a giant snowball into a lake

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wut es ur fevirat culor

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