Pictures drawn by mentally ill people. Mentally ill art. Pictures of people suffering from mental illness. Creepy, strange, but probably an accurate depiction of how a schizophrenic sufferer feels.
There are amazing drawings, maybe these people are still unrecognized geniuses?
MN, 36 years old, paranoid form of schizophrenia. Education - three classes. Despite the initially low intellectual level, the patient developed a complex delusional concept. The content of the delirium was very peculiar: the patient believed that a laboratory called the “Pluto system” had been brought to Earth from some planet. This laboratory is located on an alien ship, and its purpose is to study and enslave earthlings. She drew in the “automatic writing” mode: she put a dot on the sheet and then “the hand itself drove over the paper”. At the same time, she often could not explain the meaning of what was drawn, she said that the content of the drawing was not hers, that "he who moves his hand knows the meaning."
MN, paranoid schizophrenia - "Smoking electronic man".
MN, paranoid schizophrenia - “Carbon eater. I am not laughing, but I am doing my job?!+.”
MN, paranoid schizophrenia - “Who am I now? Freak: either a pig, or a person. I need seclusion from the whole world.”
M.N., paranoid schizophrenia - “To control a person, his thoughts, they put on him an invisible spacesuit connected to an apparatus for constructing thoughts.”
Drawing visual hallucinations. The patient is a polydrug addict, used hashish, opium, ether, cocaine.
A.Z., schizophrenia - “It is difficult and very difficult to be saved. But we have to! Need to live. Everyone!”.
A.Z., schizophrenia - “One did not get prey. Hit the rock."
A.Z., schizophrenia - “You also need to save the old man! Even the bird knows it.”
L.T., schizophrenia. The disease proceeded in the form of seizures, different in structure. These were phase depressions or manic-ecstatic states, accompanied by the vision of vivid fantastic images, fabulous, cosmic, alien plots. Her drawings and commentaries were reproduced by her brother, a professional painter. The patient vividly, emotionally told him that she “was present at the death of the world”, when everything around exploded and collapsed, “human skulls flew in smoke and roar in huge strings” and “strung” on her head, “hordes of all evil spirits settled in her head, snakes and other things, they were at war with each other.”
L.T., schizophrenia - “Death of the world and horror”.
L.T., schizophrenia - “Flower of longing”.
L.T., schizophrenia - “Madness”.
L.T., schizophrenia - “I lose my physical shell and only one thing remains - a great, harmonious, divinely bright and beautiful mental “I””.
A.B., 20 years old, schizophrenia. Only a few drawings by this author have survived. They reflect such phenomena characteristic of this disease as the “materialization” of thoughts felt by the patient as something material, schism (splitting of the psyche): “everything is scattered here - the senses, the heart, time and space”.
AB, schizophrenia - “Out of time and space”.
AB, schizophrenia - “Thoughts are things (reification of thoughts)”.
NP, schizophrenia with delusional ideas of invention. He believed that it is quite possible to invent devices that, without fuel, only thanks to the chosen form and “gravity”, will provide movement.
S.N., 20 years old, paranoid schizophrenia. The disease manifested itself while serving in the army. Perhaps, in contrast to the cruel and rough reality of the patient, thoughts about something else began to visit, better world, about God.
S.N., paranoid schizophrenia - “My thoughts are heard and seen: what I think, everyone hears, and thought-pictures appear on the screen.”
SN, paranoid schizophrenia - “I hear the voice of God. He puts into my head the whole arrangement of the world and the soul.”
And here's more:
A.Sh., 19 years old, schizophrenia. The disease began at the age of 13-14 with changes in character: he became withdrawn, lost all contacts with friends, relatives, stopped going to school, left home, spent time in churches, monasteries, libraries, where he “was engaged in philosophy”, he himself wrote “philosophical treatises”, in which he expounded his vision of the world. It was at this time that he began to draw in a very strange manner. According to his parents, he had never painted before, and it was unexpected for them that the talent of a painter was revealed in his son, although his drawings were strange, incomprehensible.
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At the age of 18 he was drafted into the army, began his service in the city of Arkhangelsk. It was here that the manifestation of the disease occurred: delusional ideas, hallucinations, depression appeared, he made repeated suicide attempts. Having entered the department, he was practically unavailable for contact, but only in conversations with the attending physician (Muratova ID) did he reveal the world of his psychopathological experiences. He drew a lot: he brought some of the drawings with him, others were drawn already in the hospital. The attending physician encouraged his desire to draw, provided paper, paints. When he was discharged, he presented the doctor with a collection of his drawings. In the future, this collection became the basis of the museum of creativity of the mentally ill, and to this day it is used for educational purposes.
In many drawings by A.Sh. there is an image of a bird, which he called "lemon". This is a figurative and symbolic reflection of the inner world of the patient, what he lives by, fenced off from reality. (He usually depicted the latter in annoying red)
"Substance"
"The essence of the painter" |
"Perverts"
disease
"alcoholic and alcoholism"
"headache"
"My Head"
Psychiatric clinic patient A.R. I took up paints and pencils for the first time already in the hospital. His works will undoubtedly be of interest not only to the attending physician, but also to a wide range of art connoisseurs.
A.R. - "Labyrinths of Dreams"
Vl.T., 35 years old, chronic alcoholism. He was repeatedly admitted to a psychiatric hospital due to repeated alcoholic psychoses. His illness was aggravated by unfavorable heredity - his sister suffered from schizophrenia. All drawings reflecting psychopathological experiences were made after coming out of psychosis and in the light period (out of binge). The author had an unfinished art education, professionally mastered the technique of painting.
The picture “My hands occupy the whole room” reflects the pathology of perception, autometamorphopsia (somatognosia, “violation of the body schema”), a violation of the perception of the size of one’s own body, its individual parts. Arms, legs or head appear very large/small or very long/short. This sensation is corrected by the patient's gaze at the limbs or by touch. It is observed in schizophrenia, organic brain damage, intoxication and in other cases.
Drawings while taking LSD
The first drawing was ready 20 minutes after the first dose (50 mcg)
The experiment was part of the US government's program to research mind-altering drugs in the late 1950s. The artist received a dose of LSD-25 and a box of pencils and pens. He needed to draw a doctor who gave him an injection.
According to the patient: “The condition is normal .. so far no effects”
Talented and mentally ill people It's like two sides of the same coin. It is not for nothing that outside-the-box thinking, extraordinary, special people are called abnormal and crazy, and artists whose paintings do not fit into the generally accepted framework and remain incomprehensible to the viewer are advised to take a course of medication and psychotherapy. Of course, you can blame the narrow-mindedness and narrow-mindedness of such "advisers" as much as you like, but in some ways they are right. And to be convinced of this, one has only to look at the pictures that paint patients of neuropsychiatric clinics and dispensaries.
We once wrote about creativity in Culturology, drawing parallels with the paintings of Bosch, Dali and modern surrealists. And they were not far from the truth. As you know, Salvador Dali was a shocking madman with non-standard behavior and strange reactions to others. And for inspiration, he often visited psychiatric hospitals, where he examined the paintings of patients, which seemed to open doors for him to another world, far from the earthly, real world. Van Gogh's mental health is also in question, because it was not without reason that he himself deprived himself of his ear. But we admire his paintings to this day. Perhaps, in time, the paintings of one of the current patients of the department of psychoneurology, whose works we are introducing to our readers today, will be just as popular.
The authors of these paintings are people with a difficult, often tragic fate, and the same tragic diagnosis in the medical record. Schizophrenia and manic depression, neuroses and personality disorders, obsessive-compulsive states and alcoholic psychosis, the consequences of addictions to drugs and potent drugs, all this leaves a deep imprint on the patient's personality, significantly distorts his thinking and worldview, and spills out in the form of pictures, schematic drawings or other kind of creativity. It is not for nothing that mentally ill people are prescribed a course of art therapy without fail, and their creative work is collected and exhibited in museums and galleries not only in Russia, but also in foreign countries.
Back in the mid-70s, the first (and probably the only) Museum of the Mentally Ill was opened in Russia. Today it is assigned to the Department of Psychiatry and Narcology, and still opens its doors to both curious visitors and those involved in scientific research the madness and genius of man.
Translation for – Svetlana Bodrik
Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness, the symptoms of which may be inadequate social behavior, auditory hallucinations and characteristic disorders of perception of reality. It is often accompanied by other less serious mental disorders such as depression and anxiety.
It goes without saying that people with schizophrenia usually find themselves unable to work or maintain relationships with other people. 50% of people diagnosed with schizophrenia also abuse alcohol or drugs in an attempt to cope with the disease.
But there are other people who seek solace not in drugs and alcohol, but in art.
The drawings shown here were created by people with schizophrenia. Looking at some of them, an ordinary person may experience a feeling of anxiety, and for the creators, these works help to make visible what worries them, torments them, does not give them rest. The desire to draw is an attempt to arrange and streamline your inner world.
"Electricity makes you float" - drawing by Karen Blair, who suffers from schizophrenia.
Pay attention to the variety of moods that were displayed on the faces of the growths on the head of this person - a clear example of how confused a patient with schizophrenia can be.
These two photographs were taken by an unknown schizophrenic artist who was trying to capture the oppressive nightmare of his thoughts.
This intricate jumble of faces was made by artist Edmund Monsel in the early 1900s. He is believed to have been schizophrenic.
This drawing was found in an oldth psychiatric hospital, hiscreator suffered from paranoid schizophrenia.
So Eric Bauman portrayed his vile illness.
In 1950, Charles Steffen, while being treated in a psychiatric hospital, zealously took up art, even drawing on wrapping paper. His drawings indicate that he apparently was obsessed with the idea of reincarnation.
This artist suffers from a rare paranoid schizophrenia that causes visual hallucinations. In the drawing, one of his visions is a figure called "Decrepitude".
Creepy, strange, but probably an accurate depiction of what a schizophrenic sufferer feels.
This drawing, titled The Essence of Mania, depicts schizophrenia as a phantom threat.
The "crazy" drawings and paintings of Karen May Sorensen, who suffers from schizophrenia, have recently become available for viewing by a huge number of people. she posted them on her blog.
Louis Wain's cats are drawings from the early 1900s. The artist's works during the period of illness changed, but the theme remained the same. Louis' series of fractal-like cats is often used as a dynamic illustration of the changing nature of creativity in the development of schizophrenia.
Drawing by Jofr Draak.
In this painting, the artist embodies the auditory hallucinations associated with this disease.
This sick artist feels as if he is his own trap.
Jofra Draak painted this in 1967. So from the point of view of a schizophrenic patient, the hell described in the work of Dante looks like.
We may never know what goes on in the minds of those with schizophrenia. The furthest we can go in understanding this is when we get acquainted with this kind of art. Most of these drawings and paintings may seem scary and filled with negativity to us, but for the artist himself, the positive thing is that he found a way to get rid of this negativity by throwing out his anxieties and fears on paper.
The fact that Van Gogh and Camille Claudel suffered from mental disorders is easily remembered. And to whom from Russian leaders art was put the same sad diagnosis? No, these are not Kandinsky or Filonov, who hypnotize with their painting, but artists whose canvases were sometimes quite realistic. We study together with Sofia Bagdasarova.
MIKHAIL TIKHONOVICH TIKHONOV (1789–1862)
YAKOV MAKSIMOVICH ANDREEVICH (1801–1840)
A nobleman of the Poltava province and an amateur artist, Andreevich was a member of the Society of United Slavs and one of the most active Decembrists. During the uprising of 1825 he served at the Kiev Arsenal. He was arrested in January of the following year, and during the analysis of the case it turned out that he called for regicide, raised military units to revolt, and so on. Andreevich was convicted among the most dangerous conspirators, in the first category, sentenced to 20 years of hard labor. The brilliant lieutenant was sent to Siberia, where over time he went crazy, and after 13 years of exile he died in a local hospital - apparently from scurvy. Very few of his works have survived.
ALEXANDER ANDREEVICH IVANOV (1806–1858)
The future author of "The Appearance of Christ to the People" arrived in Italy as a 24-year-old young man who won a retirement trip. In these warm lands, he remained for almost his entire life, constantly resisting orders to return. For more than 20 years he stubbornly painted his canvas, lived in isolation, behaved gloomily.
Rumors about his mental illness circulated among the Russian diaspora. Gogol wrote: "It was pleasing to some to proclaim him mad and spread this rumor in such a way that he could hear it with his own ears at every step." The artist's friends defended him, claiming that this was slander. For example, Count Fyodor Tolstoy reported in his report that the artist Lev Kiel, after the emperor’s arrival in Italy, “used all the intrigues to prevent the sovereign from visiting the workshops of our artists, and he especially does not tolerate Ivanov and exposes him as a crazy mystic and has already managed to inflate this into Orlov’s ears , Adlerberg and our envoy, with whom he is mean to disgust, like everywhere and with everyone.
However, Ivanov's behavior clearly shows that these rumors still had some basis. So, Alexander Turgenev described the depressing scene when, together with Vasily Botkin, they somehow called the artist for dinner.
“No, sir, no, sir,” he repeated, turning more and more pale and lost. - I will not go; I'll be poisoned there.<…>Ivanov's face took on a strange expression, his eyes wandered...
Botkin and I looked at each other; a feeling of involuntary horror stirred in both of us.<…>
- You don't know Italians yet; this is a terrible people, sir, and clever at it, sir. He will take it from behind the side of the tailcoat - in such a manner he will throw a pinch ... and no one will notice! Yes, they poisoned me everywhere, wherever I went.
Ivanov clearly suffered from persecution mania. The artist's biographer Anna Tsomakion writes that the suspiciousness that was characteristic of him before gradually grew to alarming proportions: fearing poison, he avoided dining not only in restaurants, but also with friends. Ivanov cooked for himself, took water from the fountain and sometimes ate only bread and eggs. Frequent severe pains in the stomach, the causes of which he did not know, inspired him with confidence that someone periodically managed to pour poison into him.
ALEXEY VASILIEVICH TYRANOV (1808–1859)
The former icon painter, who was picked up by Venetsianov and taught realistic painting, later entered the Academy of Arts and received gold medal. From a retirement trip to Italy, he returned in 1843 on the verge of a nervous breakdown, as they say - because of an unhappy love for an Italian model. And the next year he ended up in a St. Petersburg psychiatric hospital. There they managed to put him in relative order. He spent the next few years at home, in Bezhetsk, and then worked again in St. Petersburg. Tyranov died of tuberculosis at the age of 51.
PIMEN NIKITICH ORLOV (1812–1865)
Fans of Russian art of the 19th century remember Pimen Orlov as a good portrait painter who worked in the manner of Bryullov. He successfully graduated from the Academy of Arts and won a retirement trip to Italy, where he left in 1841. He was repeatedly ordered to return to his homeland, but Orlov lived well in Rome. In 1862, 50-year-old Orlov, by that time an academician of portraiture, fell ill with a nervous breakdown. The Russian mission placed him in an asylum for the mentally ill in Rome. Three years later he died in Rome.
GRIGORY VASILIEVICH SOROKA (1823–1864)
The serf artist turned out to be one of the most talented students of the private school of Venetsianov. But its owner, unlike the owners of many other Venetians, refused to give Magpie freedom, forced him to work as a gardener and limited him as best he could. In 1861, the artist finally received his freedom - from Alexander II the Liberator, along with the whole country. In the wild, Soroka defended his community by writing complaints against the former master. During one of the conflicts, the 41-year-old artist was summoned to the volost board, which sentenced him "for rudeness and false rumors" to a three-day arrest. But due to illness, Magpie was released. In the evening he went to the pottery shed, where he hanged himself. As it is written in the protocol - "from immoderate drunkenness and the sadness that came from that and with insanity of mind as a result of the acquired business."
ALEXEY FILIPPOVICH CHERNYSHEV (1824–1863)
At the age of 29, this native of the "soldier's children" received the Big Gold Medal and retired from the Academy of Arts in Italy. There, the first symptoms of his illness, which in the 19th century was called softening of the brain, appeared. His nervous breakdown was accompanied by eye disease, rheumatic pains, blurred vision and, of course, depression. Chernyshev tried to be treated in Austria, France and Switzerland, but his situation only worsened. Seven years after his departure, he returned to Russia, and his successes were still so great that Chernyshev received the title of academician. But the degradation continued, and as a result he was placed in the Stein institution for the mentally ill, where he died three years after returning at the age of 39.
PAVEL ANDREEVICH FEDOTOV (1815–1852)
When the author of The Major's Matchmaking and other textbook paintings turned 35, his state of mind began to deteriorate rapidly. If earlier he painted satirical paintings, now they have become depressing, full of a sense of the meaninglessness of life. Poverty and hard work with a lack of light led to poor vision and frequent headaches.
In the spring of 1852, an acute mental disorder began. A contemporary writes: "By the way, he ordered a coffin for himself and tried it on, lying down in it." Then Fedotov came up with some kind of wedding for himself and began to squander money, preparing for it, went to many acquaintances and got married in every family. Soon the Academy of Arts was informed by the police that "a madman is kept at the unit who says that he is the artist Fedotov." He was placed in a private institution for mentally ill Viennese professor of psychiatry Leidesdorf, where he beat his head against the wall, and the treatment consisted of five people beating him with five whips to pacify him. Fedotov had hallucinations and delusions, and his condition worsened.
The patient was transferred to the hospital "All Who Sorrow" on the Peterhof road. His friend wrote that there "he screams and rages in a rage, rushes with his thoughts in the celestial space with the planets and is in a hopeless position." Fedotov died the same year from pleurisy. Our contemporary psychiatrist Alexander Shuvalov suggests that the artist suffered from schizophrenia with a syndrome of acute sensual delirium with oneiroid-catatonic inclusions.
MIKHAIL ALEKSANDROVICH VRUBEL (1856–1910)
The first symptoms of the disease appeared in Vrubel at the age of 42. Gradually, the artist became more and more irritable, violent and verbose. In 1902, the family persuaded him to see the psychiatrist Vladimir Bekhterev, who diagnosed him with "incurable progressive paralysis due to a syphilitic infection", which was then treated with very cruel means, in particular mercury. Soon Vrubel was hospitalized with symptoms of an acute mental disorder. He spent the last eight years of his life intermittently in the clinic, becoming completely blind two years before his death. He died at the age of 54, deliberately catching a cold.
ANNA SEMENOVNA GOLUBKINA (1864–1927)
The most famous of the female sculptors of the Russian Empire, while studying in Paris, twice tried to commit suicide because of unhappy love. She returned to her homeland in a deep depression, and she was immediately admitted to the psychiatric clinic of Professor Korsakov. She came to her senses, but throughout her life she had bouts of inexplicable longing. During the revolution of 1905, she threw herself on the harness of the horses of the Cossacks, trying to stop the dispersal of the crowd. She was brought to trial as a revolutionary, but released as a mentally ill. In 1907, Golubkina was sentenced to a year in a fortress for distributing revolutionary literature, but due to her mental state, the case was again dismissed. In 1915, a severe bout of depression again put her in the clinic, and for several years she could not create because of her state of mind. Golubkina lived to 63 years.
IVAN GRIGORYEVICH MYASOYEDOV (1881–1953)
The son of the famous Wanderer Grigory Myasoedov also became an artist. During civil war he fought on the side of the whites, then ended up in Berlin. There he applied his artistic skills to survive - he began to forge dollars and pounds, which he learned in Denikin's army. In 1923, Myasoedov was arrested and sentenced to three years, in 1933 he was again caught counterfeiting and went to prison for a year.
In 1938, we see him already at the court of the Principality of Liechtenstein, where Myasoedov becomes a court painter, portrays the prince and his family, and also makes sketches for postage stamps. However, in the principality he lived and worked on a fake Czechoslovak passport in the name of Yevgeny Zotov, which eventually turned out and led to trouble. His wife, an Italian dancer and circus performer whom he married back in 1912, stayed with him all these years, helping him survive troubles and sell fakes.
Prior to that, in Brussels, Myasoedov painted a portrait of Mussolini, during the war he was also associated with the Nazis, including from the Vlasovites (the Germans were interested in his ability to counterfeit allied money). The Soviet Union demanded that Liechtenstein extradite collaborators, but the principality refused. In 1953, the couple, on the advice of Boris Smyslovsky, the ex-commander of the RNA of the German Wehrmacht, decide to move to Argentina, where 71-year-old Myasoedov dies of liver cancer three months later. The artist suffered from a severe form of depressive disorder, which can be seen in the paintings of his last period, full of pessimism and disappointment, for example, in the cycle of "historical nightmares".
SERGEI IVANOVICH KALMYKOV (1891-1967)
The 20th century is the time when artists appear who have not gone crazy, but, on the contrary, have become artists, already being crazy. Interest in primitivism, "outsider art" (art brut) makes them very popular. One of them is Lobanov. At the age of seven, he contracted meningitis and became deaf and dumb. At the age of 23, he ended up in the first psychiatric hospital, six years later - in the Afonino hospital, from where he did not leave until the end of his life. At Afonino, thanks to the guidance of psychiatrist Vladimir Gavrilov, who believed in art therapy, Lobanov began to paint. In the 1990s, his naïve works in ballpoint pen ink began to be exhibited, and he gained great fame.
VLADIMIR IGOREVICH YAKOVLEV (1934-1998)
One of the most memorable representatives of Soviet non-conformism almost lost his sight at the age of 16. Then schizophrenia began: from his youth, Yakovlev was observed by a psychiatrist and from time to time went to psychiatric hospitals. His vision was preserved, but due to the curvature of the cornea, Yakovlev saw the world in his own way - with primitive contours and bright colors. In 1992, the almost 60-year-old artist at the Institute of Eye Microsurgery Svyatoslav Fedorov partially regained his sight - curiously, this did not affect the style. The works remained recognizable, only more elaborate. For many years he did not leave the psycho-neurological boarding school, where he died six years after the operation.
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Genius and madness go hand in hand. Gifted people perceive the world a little differently, and their creation sometimes faces the unknown, the forbidden and the mysterious. Perhaps this is what distinguishes their work and makes it truly brilliant.
website remembered several amazing artists who suffered in different years their lives with mental disorders, which, however, could not prevent them from leaving behind real masterpieces.
Mikhail Vrubel
Mikhail Vrubel, Lilac (1900)
They don’t even try to copy the special aesthetics of his paintings - Vrubel’s work was so original. Madness overtook him in adulthood - the first signs of the disease appeared when the artist was 46 years old. Family grief contributed to this - Mikhail had a son with a cleft lip, and after 2 years the child died. The attacks of violence that began alternated with absolute apathy; relatives were forced to place him in a hospital, where he died a few years later.
Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch, "The Scream" (1893)
The painting "The Scream" was painted in several versions, each of which was made using different techniques. There is a version that this picture is the fruit of a mental disorder. It is assumed that the artist suffered from manic-depressive psychosis. "Scream" Munch rewrote four times until he was treated in the clinic. This case was not the only one when Munch found himself with a mental disorder in the hospital.
Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night (1889)
The extraordinary painting of Van Gogh reflects the spiritual quest and torment that tormented him all his life. Now experts find it difficult to say what mental illness tormented the artist - schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, but he ended up in the clinic more than once. The illness eventually led him to commit suicide at age 36. His brother Theo, by the way, also died in a lunatic asylum.
Pavel Fedotov
Pavel Fedotov, Major's Matchmaking (1848)
Not everyone knows that the author of genre satirical painting died in a psychiatric hospital. He was so loved by contemporaries and admirers that many fussed about him, the king himself allocated funds for his maintenance. But, unfortunately, they could not help him - there was no adequate treatment for schizophrenia at that time. The artist died very young - at 37 years old.
Camille Claudel
Camille Claudel, "Waltz" (1893)
In her youth, the sculptor girl was very pretty and unusually talented. Master Auguste Rodin could not help but pay attention to her. The insane connection between the student and the master exhausted both - Rodin could not leave his common-law wife, with whom he had lived for many years. In the end, they broke up with Claudel, and she was never able to recover from the breakup. Since 1905, she began violent seizures, and she spent 30 years in a psychiatric hospital.
Francois Lemoine
François Lemoine, "Time guarding the Truth from Falsehood and Envy" (1737)
Physical overwork from hard work, constant court intrigues of envious people in Versailles and the death of his beloved wife affected the artist's health and drove him to madness. As a result, in June 1737, a few hours after finishing work on the next painting, Time Protecting Truth from Lies and Envy, during a paranoid attack, Lemoine committed suicide by stabbing himself with nine stabs of a dagger.
Louis Wayne
One of Wayne's latest works (presented chronologically), clearly illustrating the artist's mental disorders
Louis was most inspired by cats, to which he attributed human behavior in his cartoons. Wayne was considered a strange person. Gradually, his eccentricity turned into a serious mental illness that began to progress over the years. In 1924, Louis was committed to a psychiatric hospital after he pushed one of his sisters down the stairs. A year later, he was discovered by the press and transferred to Napsbury Hospital in London. This clinic was relatively cozy, there was a garden and a whole cattery, and Wayne spent his last years. Although the disease progressed, his gentle nature returned to him and he continued to paint. Its main theme - cats - remained unchanged for a long time, until it was finally supplanted by fractal-like patterns.
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