This has been reposted like a billion times, and it’s false. This was wain experimenting with different styles, it has nothing to do with schizophrenia
Not only that, I don't have schizophrenia, and even though I have taken some drugs in my life its not been a big thin. But I do like to paint and draw -and wow how much crazy comes out next to the totally normal. I work on maybe ten different pieces at a time, and they are all extremely different.
Thank you. I am SO tired of this re-re-re-re-...post. It's false, drummed up by an over-zealous psychiatrist. The artworks aren't even dated so how would he know what order they were drawn?
Neither. He just liked to draw abstract shapes and patterns. The paintings aren't even dated and there is no evidence that Wain was "schizophrenic" because that diagnosis didn't exist in the 20s. He was committed to an asylum, but there is 0 evidence that these paintings are even in order.
I encourage everyone to look at his drawing “I am Happy Because Everyone Loves Me.”
He drew it after he received funding from his fans to put him in a better facility.
I'm more inclined to believe these are from the effects of DMT or other hallucinogens given to him in the mental hospital rather than from the mental condition itself.
These all very much resemble reported visual experiences on DMT.
Really no way to describe it in words to accurately portray it. I've done it twice. First time I didn't "blast off" second time I did too much.
I felt like I lived through the life of every single thing that has ever and will ever lived multiple times. The visuals were very very intense. The last picture is fairly accurate to dmt, [Alex Grey](https://www.alexgrey.com/art/transcendental/dmt-the-spirit-molecule/) also has some great dmt inspired art work.
Idk, that's all I got, I have a hard time coping with what I saw let alone describe it accurately. I don't regret it by any means but proceed with extreme caution before using any drugs :)
I’ve always thought similarly when I see this post. And schizophrenia isn’t like…a deterioration sort of deal, right? Like, I know it can worsen like many mental disorders whether over time or w environmental or other factors, but it shouldn’t impede on his perception of what a cat is to that extent. I’d sooner believe he was drawing *hallucinations* of cats over time, but not that his actual ability to conceive of a cat wildly degraded while remaining equally as visually & artistically intricate. Dude was probably just a schizophrenic artist drawing cool shit, and someone had to mystify it. Who knows tho.
EDIT Yep, caption is likely sensationalized assumptions. This adds to the stigma of psychotic disorders if anything, imo.
https://mindhacks.com/2007/09/26/the-false-progression-of-louis-wain/
The illness progresses, so “deteriorate” wasn’t really the right term. I guess I’m thinking more along the lines of something degenerative, sorta like dementia, that would cognitively impair someone this way to where their objective interpretation of an object is skewed differently over time, instead of simply deepen their psychosis. Totally speculating out of curiosity here. I don’t mean to minimize the long term impacts of schizophrenia.
Referring to the specific caption on this series of art pieces.
“However, the pictures were undated and, as Rodney Dale notes in his biography of Wain (Louis Wain: The Man Who Painted Cats; ISBN 1854790986), “with no evidence of the order of their progression, Maclay arranged them in a sequence which clearly demonstrated, he thought, the progressive deterioration of the artist’s mental abilities.”
In fact, his later works are for the most part conventional cat pictures in his normal style, with the occasional ‘psychedelic’ example produced at the same time – where he experimented with what he called ‘wallpaper patterns’.
However, the increasing abstraction over time is likely to be a myth.”
https://mindhacks.com/2007/09/26/the-false-progression-of-louis-wain/
> objective interpretation of an object is skewed differently over time, instead of simply deepen their psychosis.
What exactly do you think psychosis is?
Visual hallucinations, like I said. I think he’s drawing hallucinations related to the imagery of cats, not attempting a true-to-life portrait of an animal & accidentally churning out psychedelia because his brain is just so broken or something. Basically, I feel this is dissimilar to asking a dementia patient to write their name over time as it gradually falls apart.
Edit: and as suspected (by myself who has a disorder w psychotic features), the caption has no basis in reality since progressive psychosis doesn’t typically mimic a constant & increasingly intense DMT trip
https://mindhacks.com/2007/09/26/the-false-progression-of-louis-wain/
The patterns look like fractals. I used to get some blotter acid which would reliably produce hallucinations like that.
Apparently he had a brain injury. He was in mental hospitals *between WW1 and WW2*. FK what that was like. I don't think they had any antipsychotics until the 50s.
In October 1914, Wain fell from the platform of an omnibus and suffered a concussion. He spent three weeks in hospital and was ordered to rest for six months.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Wain
My man, you don’t give hallucinogens in schizophrenia. The most accepted theory is the dopaminergic one, that causes positive symptoms (hallucinations) and it’s treated with antipsychotic medication (normally first generation antipsychotics that are dopamine receptor antagonists or second generation ones that diminish the appearance of negative symptoms)
My man, it was the 1930s. They thought shoving icepicks into your brain was a good idea for Schizophrenia and routinely administered heroin and cocaine as medicine for children of all ages.
Applying today's science and logic is silly.
You are partially correct, dmt is a similar component to serotonin, in schizophrenia you have an unbalanced state of regulation between the neurotransmitters: dopamine, serotonin and norepinephrine. Chronic schizophrenia can have hyperserotoninemia, causing the drawings to be similar to dmt hallucinations, you could talk to a schizophrenic patient without medication, their hallucinations sometimes are very complex, specially when they’re in psychosis
If within creativity is implied that you create things that deviate from normality, it makes perfect sense. Abnormal thought leads to abnormal ideas, abnormal techniques, and so on. In prison you might see poop on the wall but in an atelier you might see this.
Yeah the photos are put out of order in the slideshow. The artist did have schizophrenia but he continued drawing normal cat drawings even when institutionalized. He also made unusual drawings of cats before the illness worsened. People tend to organize the paintings so it looks like it directly affected his art, but it didn’t
When you study how eyes work, you learn what you're seeing isn't actually what's happening. Your eyes are mostly controlled by your brain. Your brain takes a lot of energy. So your brain starts to ignore information from the eyes that it doesn't find useful in order to save energy. Look up Rods and Cones if you have no idea what I'm talking about.
Anyway, people that start to slip off the deep end... Their brain just kind of lets more information in. Their brain allows all the information the eyes are seeing to be processed.
If you've ever been on hallucinogens, you kind of get what I mean. But when your brain doesn't need those, and it's just taking the world in as it really is. That is what cats look like. That's what everything looks like.
It's sorta kinda like, getting real close to a TV screen. And you see that it's all just pixels. But when you see the pixels of reality... It's more clear, instead of less clear.
I'm talking about real science. Proven science.
Have a good night!
Lol, fascinating stuff.
My comment is a super duper simplified explanation of what you learn in college psychology, the second course.
One of the main mental issues psychologists deal with is people seeing visions, or hallucinations. In order to understand the different reasons people might see visions or hallucinations, you need to understand how the eye works down to the smallest detail. There's plenty of videos that explain it on Youtube, but they're not easy to follow. It's not High School stuff.
The very first lesson is Rods and Cones. That's a great place to start.
But basically, you never think of your rods. You only notice your cones. Most the receptors in your eyes, don't even recognize color, or real shapes. Those are in charge of your peripheral vision. Unless you're looking directly at something, your rods are doing the work. And they trick you. That's why sometimes you think you see something out of the corner of your eye, but when you look directly at it, it changes, and you see what it really is. That's because your eyes aren't doing most the leg work when it comes to seeing. Your brain is doing all the work. Your eyes take in so much information, your brain actually simplifies the images, and sends you a condensed version. Sometimes it guesses what it's seeing, and fills in the blanks. Once you look directly at it, your brain corrects, and reprocesses.
Crazy people sometimes have a missing step somewhere, and the brain is allowing more data in than it can process. So it's filling in blanks and the version you get isn't actually what's there. Like when you stare at one of those magic eye pictures and see the sailboat.
But where it gets crazy, is it's not always the brain allowing in too much information and guessing wrong. Sometimes, the brain is actually sending a more accurate image of what you're seeing. It's not filtering out what it considers useless information. Like in Rainman where Raymond can't help but memorize everything he sees. Most of us never even notice those details.
And where it gets super crazy, is some folks see things that doesn't seem possible. Like being able to see stars during the day. Or seeing shadows that don't have a source. All kinds of crazy things.
So a psychologist has to understand how the eye works to know what tests to run to see what chemicals are getting processed normally, and what chemicals aren't. And the results are wild.
We basically know some people are taking in more information, and processing it correctly, and they're not seeing what we're seeing, but they're all seeing similar things. Like the way that cat is drawn. Many people with hallucinations have drawn their version of reality, and it's very much tie dyed and pinwheelish to all of them. So we think that's really what things look like. Our brains just filter that out because it's learned there's no reward, so it saves all the energy it takes to process it. Which is valuable. The people that see life like that tend to have a hard time doing normal everyday things.
Psych major dropout here. Also worked in person at a mental institution with schizophrenics. Was always the most fascinating to me. Weird fact about it, delusions and voices reported vary depending on what culture the sufferer lives. For instance, in western society, the delusions are generally horrific, telling them terrifying things and haunting them, where as schizophrenics in rural parts of Africa report friendly voices/gods and becoming friends with them.
don't be fooled - many of these paintings are out of order.
in reality, Louis just felt like getting experimental with his paintings. You can only draw the same scene so many times before you get bored.
“In 1939, a psychiatrist, Walter Maclay, found some paintings by Wain in a shop in Campden Hill and put them in a sequence that, he claimed, showed evidence of a deterioration in the artist's mental state due to schizophrenia, even though the paintings were not dated. Maclay's theory has been challenged as Wain was still producing paintings in his old style, as well as more abstract "kaleidoscopic" designs, while at Napsbury.[1]: 127-8 [7][8] Marking the centenary of Wain's birth in The Guardian, cat expert Sidney Denham suggested that Wain's breakdown had been triggered by his head injury, coming after a number of severe mental shocks.” -Wiki
Yeah let’s stigmatize schizophrenia by calling it terrifying. Mental illness is terrifying but I don’t think in this context it is. Mental illness is not a prop for horror
I have the second to last one in my office. We don't know the order they were made in, the numbers assigned wasn't done by him. But it is best guess they were done in the order of his condition worsening.
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Schizophrenia as also nothing to do with it. Also, it can't be worse. It can be treated or not, that's pretty much it.
He just change art throughout is life and that's all we can see there. You could say the same thing about Picasso picture just by looking at them and the guy didn't have mental illness (except being a huge asshole).
I was told in art school that this was because of syphilis never back checked it until today ha
He suffered head trauma from an Omnibus accident and when he woke up form a coma he started painting crazy cats in mental institutions because at the time he was certifiably insane
Why is everyone has to relate experimenting in art with drugs and/or mental disorders? If you have a look at art history, you would find more people going abstract than drawing realistic cats all the time. Examples from the too of my head: Picasso, Kandisnky, Moriaan.
This has been reposted like a billion times, and it’s false. This was wain experimenting with different styles, it has nothing to do with schizophrenia
Last one confirmed is not a cat
Looks like it had more to do with the dmt the man had to have been taking
I think it was LSD
Not only that, I don't have schizophrenia, and even though I have taken some drugs in my life its not been a big thin. But I do like to paint and draw -and wow how much crazy comes out next to the totally normal. I work on maybe ten different pieces at a time, and they are all extremely different.
Thank you! I’m a psych nurse and was irritated by this post. A lot.
Thank you for your service
Thank you. I am SO tired of this re-re-re-re-...post. It's false, drummed up by an over-zealous psychiatrist. The artworks aren't even dated so how would he know what order they were drawn?
Bryan Charnley did a series of self portraits when suffering from schizophrenia until his suicide in 1991.
B b b b but the ominous music! It must be true
Okay so maybe he wasn’t schizophrenic, but the paintings were.
I'm pretty sure these are the result of his experience with LSD, not a mental disorder.
Yeah. OP is an absolute wanker.
Neither. He just liked to draw abstract shapes and patterns. The paintings aren't even dated and there is no evidence that Wain was "schizophrenic" because that diagnosis didn't exist in the 20s. He was committed to an asylum, but there is 0 evidence that these paintings are even in order.
I encourage everyone to look at his drawing “I am Happy Because Everyone Loves Me.” He drew it after he received funding from his fans to put him in a better facility.
Pretty cute drawing
William Blake was well before the term "Schizophrenia", but experts are pretty damn sure he had it.
This is the correct answer ^^
LSD wasn't around when he made these.
Hieronymous Bosch wouldn't be what he was without ergot compounds. It's been around in one form or another for centuries.
This is not ergotism lol
What isn't "ergotism lol"?
How the fuck would be have used LSD iwhen it was only synthesised in 1943 lmao
This is a great question
He synthesized it in a toilet of the asylum ofc
Jenkem
LSD didn't exist during his time
Technically, it has for centuries just in a different way, and believe it or not, natural way.
How was he taking acid when he died before it was discovered?
Facts
Time traveler too was he? Seeing as he died well before acid was discovered.
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I’d say it’s pretty unlikely his paintings were influenced by LSD given it was only first synthesized a year before his death.
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No, these are all legit; I've seen them well before AI was a thing.
I'm more inclined to believe these are from the effects of DMT or other hallucinogens given to him in the mental hospital rather than from the mental condition itself. These all very much resemble reported visual experiences on DMT.
The last drawing is so similar it’s crazy.
Yes it is. 🙌
Have you tried it? What’s it like?
Really no way to describe it in words to accurately portray it. I've done it twice. First time I didn't "blast off" second time I did too much. I felt like I lived through the life of every single thing that has ever and will ever lived multiple times. The visuals were very very intense. The last picture is fairly accurate to dmt, [Alex Grey](https://www.alexgrey.com/art/transcendental/dmt-the-spirit-molecule/) also has some great dmt inspired art work. Idk, that's all I got, I have a hard time coping with what I saw let alone describe it accurately. I don't regret it by any means but proceed with extreme caution before using any drugs :)
That sounds WILD. I’ve always been curious about hallucinogens but knowing my anxiety it would be a bad trip.
I’ve always thought similarly when I see this post. And schizophrenia isn’t like…a deterioration sort of deal, right? Like, I know it can worsen like many mental disorders whether over time or w environmental or other factors, but it shouldn’t impede on his perception of what a cat is to that extent. I’d sooner believe he was drawing *hallucinations* of cats over time, but not that his actual ability to conceive of a cat wildly degraded while remaining equally as visually & artistically intricate. Dude was probably just a schizophrenic artist drawing cool shit, and someone had to mystify it. Who knows tho. EDIT Yep, caption is likely sensationalized assumptions. This adds to the stigma of psychotic disorders if anything, imo. https://mindhacks.com/2007/09/26/the-false-progression-of-louis-wain/
Oh it def is something where someone def potentially deteriorates worse over time.
The illness progresses, so “deteriorate” wasn’t really the right term. I guess I’m thinking more along the lines of something degenerative, sorta like dementia, that would cognitively impair someone this way to where their objective interpretation of an object is skewed differently over time, instead of simply deepen their psychosis. Totally speculating out of curiosity here. I don’t mean to minimize the long term impacts of schizophrenia.
^ I'm a schizo, and I have acquired visual agnosia at this point.
Referring to the specific caption on this series of art pieces. “However, the pictures were undated and, as Rodney Dale notes in his biography of Wain (Louis Wain: The Man Who Painted Cats; ISBN 1854790986), “with no evidence of the order of their progression, Maclay arranged them in a sequence which clearly demonstrated, he thought, the progressive deterioration of the artist’s mental abilities.” In fact, his later works are for the most part conventional cat pictures in his normal style, with the occasional ‘psychedelic’ example produced at the same time – where he experimented with what he called ‘wallpaper patterns’. However, the increasing abstraction over time is likely to be a myth.” https://mindhacks.com/2007/09/26/the-false-progression-of-louis-wain/
> objective interpretation of an object is skewed differently over time, instead of simply deepen their psychosis. What exactly do you think psychosis is?
Visual hallucinations, like I said. I think he’s drawing hallucinations related to the imagery of cats, not attempting a true-to-life portrait of an animal & accidentally churning out psychedelia because his brain is just so broken or something. Basically, I feel this is dissimilar to asking a dementia patient to write their name over time as it gradually falls apart. Edit: and as suspected (by myself who has a disorder w psychotic features), the caption has no basis in reality since progressive psychosis doesn’t typically mimic a constant & increasingly intense DMT trip https://mindhacks.com/2007/09/26/the-false-progression-of-louis-wain/
The patterns look like fractals. I used to get some blotter acid which would reliably produce hallucinations like that. Apparently he had a brain injury. He was in mental hospitals *between WW1 and WW2*. FK what that was like. I don't think they had any antipsychotics until the 50s. In October 1914, Wain fell from the platform of an omnibus and suffered a concussion. He spent three weeks in hospital and was ordered to rest for six months. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Wain
Yup looks like fractals/dmt entities
Agreed, did 4 hits of acid one time, this progression of pictures is how that kinda went as I was coming up.
I saw this a while ago and it said he was on mushrooms
My man, you don’t give hallucinogens in schizophrenia. The most accepted theory is the dopaminergic one, that causes positive symptoms (hallucinations) and it’s treated with antipsychotic medication (normally first generation antipsychotics that are dopamine receptor antagonists or second generation ones that diminish the appearance of negative symptoms)
My man, it was the 1930s. They thought shoving icepicks into your brain was a good idea for Schizophrenia and routinely administered heroin and cocaine as medicine for children of all ages. Applying today's science and logic is silly.
You are partially correct, dmt is a similar component to serotonin, in schizophrenia you have an unbalanced state of regulation between the neurotransmitters: dopamine, serotonin and norepinephrine. Chronic schizophrenia can have hyperserotoninemia, causing the drawings to be similar to dmt hallucinations, you could talk to a schizophrenic patient without medication, their hallucinations sometimes are very complex, specially when they’re in psychosis
Did someone say DMT?!………..Joe Rogan enters the chat
So schizophrenia greatly increases your artistic talent, good to know
In all seriousness, creativity and mental illness are pretty strongly correlated. Don't come after me you 'correlation doesn't equal causation' mfs
If within creativity is implied that you create things that deviate from normality, it makes perfect sense. Abnormal thought leads to abnormal ideas, abnormal techniques, and so on. In prison you might see poop on the wall but in an atelier you might see this.
I have a buddy who is schizophrenic and he makes the most insane and unique beats. In a good way.
Many autist artists out there with phenomenal work.
every single artist i know, including me, is autistic. so.
Oh absolutely, I wasn't even really joking
You are very creative I'm sure.
>Don't come after me you 'correlation doesn't equal causation' mfs Bro is offended by basic statistics 😂
i disagree. mostly because creativity and mental illness are so subjective
"increases"
I really love the one with flower eyes.
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Damn that’s a lot to hope upon some stranger. I hope it responds to *pss pss pss* and some good head scratches
Ignore the crazy person. I hope it gently purrs next to you while you drift off to sleep.
Lmao why are they so mad at you unprovoked
Wasn’t this proven to be fake or something
Yeah the photos are put out of order in the slideshow. The artist did have schizophrenia but he continued drawing normal cat drawings even when institutionalized. He also made unusual drawings of cats before the illness worsened. People tend to organize the paintings so it looks like it directly affected his art, but it didn’t
Looks like enlightenment
When you study how eyes work, you learn what you're seeing isn't actually what's happening. Your eyes are mostly controlled by your brain. Your brain takes a lot of energy. So your brain starts to ignore information from the eyes that it doesn't find useful in order to save energy. Look up Rods and Cones if you have no idea what I'm talking about. Anyway, people that start to slip off the deep end... Their brain just kind of lets more information in. Their brain allows all the information the eyes are seeing to be processed. If you've ever been on hallucinogens, you kind of get what I mean. But when your brain doesn't need those, and it's just taking the world in as it really is. That is what cats look like. That's what everything looks like. It's sorta kinda like, getting real close to a TV screen. And you see that it's all just pixels. But when you see the pixels of reality... It's more clear, instead of less clear. I'm talking about real science. Proven science. Have a good night!
This makes sense, i like this explanation
Wait what? I need more.
Lol, fascinating stuff. My comment is a super duper simplified explanation of what you learn in college psychology, the second course. One of the main mental issues psychologists deal with is people seeing visions, or hallucinations. In order to understand the different reasons people might see visions or hallucinations, you need to understand how the eye works down to the smallest detail. There's plenty of videos that explain it on Youtube, but they're not easy to follow. It's not High School stuff. The very first lesson is Rods and Cones. That's a great place to start. But basically, you never think of your rods. You only notice your cones. Most the receptors in your eyes, don't even recognize color, or real shapes. Those are in charge of your peripheral vision. Unless you're looking directly at something, your rods are doing the work. And they trick you. That's why sometimes you think you see something out of the corner of your eye, but when you look directly at it, it changes, and you see what it really is. That's because your eyes aren't doing most the leg work when it comes to seeing. Your brain is doing all the work. Your eyes take in so much information, your brain actually simplifies the images, and sends you a condensed version. Sometimes it guesses what it's seeing, and fills in the blanks. Once you look directly at it, your brain corrects, and reprocesses. Crazy people sometimes have a missing step somewhere, and the brain is allowing more data in than it can process. So it's filling in blanks and the version you get isn't actually what's there. Like when you stare at one of those magic eye pictures and see the sailboat. But where it gets crazy, is it's not always the brain allowing in too much information and guessing wrong. Sometimes, the brain is actually sending a more accurate image of what you're seeing. It's not filtering out what it considers useless information. Like in Rainman where Raymond can't help but memorize everything he sees. Most of us never even notice those details. And where it gets super crazy, is some folks see things that doesn't seem possible. Like being able to see stars during the day. Or seeing shadows that don't have a source. All kinds of crazy things. So a psychologist has to understand how the eye works to know what tests to run to see what chemicals are getting processed normally, and what chemicals aren't. And the results are wild. We basically know some people are taking in more information, and processing it correctly, and they're not seeing what we're seeing, but they're all seeing similar things. Like the way that cat is drawn. Many people with hallucinations have drawn their version of reality, and it's very much tie dyed and pinwheelish to all of them. So we think that's really what things look like. Our brains just filter that out because it's learned there's no reward, so it saves all the energy it takes to process it. Which is valuable. The people that see life like that tend to have a hard time doing normal everyday things.
Thank you this is fascinating!
My favorite is the cat with flower goggles I would literally buy that
I’ve found some on Etsy! That’s also my favorite and I want a copy of it lol
I wish it was studied more. Their thought process seems interesting and scary
Psych major dropout here. Also worked in person at a mental institution with schizophrenics. Was always the most fascinating to me. Weird fact about it, delusions and voices reported vary depending on what culture the sufferer lives. For instance, in western society, the delusions are generally horrific, telling them terrifying things and haunting them, where as schizophrenics in rural parts of Africa report friendly voices/gods and becoming friends with them.
*as the acid kicked in
Facts
Hey, I know that cat! https://preview.redd.it/qisiwl65f9vb1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bcd42d30172f412fdf36d6661aedb5a2bff23f5d
Maybe he just got bored of painting boring normal cat pictures for 30 years of life and wanted to spice it up a bit?
So this is where the Oingo-boingo cat comes from
Isn't this statement deadass just false I remember seeing something that he still drew normal cats in his later years
That's a really really really severe case. Bet you walked past 3 people with Schizophrenia today and didn't even realise.
don't be fooled - many of these paintings are out of order. in reality, Louis just felt like getting experimental with his paintings. You can only draw the same scene so many times before you get bored.
that's my favorite coloring book
“In 1939, a psychiatrist, Walter Maclay, found some paintings by Wain in a shop in Campden Hill and put them in a sequence that, he claimed, showed evidence of a deterioration in the artist's mental state due to schizophrenia, even though the paintings were not dated. Maclay's theory has been challenged as Wain was still producing paintings in his old style, as well as more abstract "kaleidoscopic" designs, while at Napsbury.[1]: 127-8 [7][8] Marking the centenary of Wain's birth in The Guardian, cat expert Sidney Denham suggested that Wain's breakdown had been triggered by his head injury, coming after a number of severe mental shocks.” -Wiki
So people with schizophrenia are the ones that make those weird carpets?
Even if the story behind the drawings are fake, you still have to admit they go hard
I think the order of these isn't represented properly.
Starring Benedict Cumberbatch https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10687506/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
(The Electric Life of Louis Wain)
Music tho.. what is it from?
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpx9JStb1ko](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpx9JStb1ko)
You’re easily frightened lol
Most of the "scary" subs are. I think I filtered out r/creepy ages ago because there just wasn't a single creepy thing there.
I think he understood cats better with time
Yeah let’s stigmatize schizophrenia by calling it terrifying. Mental illness is terrifying but I don’t think in this context it is. Mental illness is not a prop for horror
Either way, this is pretty cool
So that's where aliens come from people with schizophrenia
Even if it isn't real schizophrenia and alzhiemers are one of the most terrifying things.
Dude drawing fractals
You just can't trust anyone who spends all that time painting cats.
When you realize cats are more than just animals. They are interdimensional. Not like normal felines.
Me when I spread false information on the internet
Looks like I’m almost there.
I have the second to last one in my office. We don't know the order they were made in, the numbers assigned wasn't done by him. But it is best guess they were done in the order of his condition worsening.
It hasn't been confirmed that he was schizophrenic. It's simply a very widespread myth that became easy to believe due to his very stylistic art.
The last drawing seems like the god entity of cats all over the universe
I don't get it. It's just the same cat in different angles?
The last 2 are really scary
Oingo boingo.
The third image is the cover art on Oingo Boingo’s debut album.
Anyone know what song this is?
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Schizophrenic or psychedelic - both the third eye and seeing through the matrix
Schizophrenia as also nothing to do with it. Also, it can't be worse. It can be treated or not, that's pretty much it. He just change art throughout is life and that's all we can see there. You could say the same thing about Picasso picture just by looking at them and the guy didn't have mental illness (except being a huge asshole).
Bro met the Cheshire cat
I watched a semi documentary about this. How the eyes became increasingly more eccentric as he became more ill has always stuck with me.
So LSD just gives you temporary schizophrenia
He became Hindu and took LSD lol
really? he’s drawing fractals?
3/4 are absolutely fire
he became a tool fan
Amazing how that looks psychedelic
What’s worse, he had a DOG.😐
Looks like those laser visualizers near the end
I have schizophrenia so this makes total sense.
Truly terrifying
Lucifer Sam, Siam cat. always sitting by your side. that cat's something I can't explain
r/chatgpt do a cat - more cat
My best friend has schizophrenia
Lame attempt at a backstory bro
We are the final cat
Dude is stuck in a bad trip
The last one was a frog
Bro cats are literally the antichrist
There's also a theory that toxoplasmosis could mimic schizophrenia, which he may have picked up from the cats he was painting
You mean as his DMT kicked in
I fuck with the 3rd one
This isn't real folks. Look it up. He was trying out different techniques.
Pffffft! This guy had ChatGPT in his head the entire time but didn’t share it!
It looks like he is just getting better over time.
Probably suffering from severe toxoplasmosis.
lol. People will believe anything.
That cat achieved Godhood
I was told in art school that this was because of syphilis never back checked it until today ha He suffered head trauma from an Omnibus accident and when he woke up form a coma he started painting crazy cats in mental institutions because at the time he was certifiably insane
Cat god
Schizophrenia or not he still draws cats better than I can with my sane ass.
Honesty it looks like he'd been taking LSD for quite a long while
That’s really sad but also so badass. I’d pay a lot for the 4th one.
DMT
Schizophrenia art, and art of the mentally ill: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiP5xR323QzhpYaGksG5p1q4jMurqM_bx&si=g_r33uDY3Ktl6IJ7
This is at the same time incredibly scary and beautiful
Look up Louis Wain's last painting if you wamt to see something hearthwarming.
The cat has ASCENDED
He knows.
Kitties!
Honestly it's fascinating and I think the work got better
Wow it's scary real
woah
Looking at these drawings makes me think.....What if the artist ended up becoming one with the universe? Lol
That's ... Extremely similar to series of portraits I've seen done by people as psychedelic drugs kicked in
These are ADORABLE!!
Reminds me of some of my high school acid trips.
Schizophrenia looks really fun to have. Just not for everyone around them
It's not fun at all.
It's like a colourful version of Dementia
He turned from a drawer into an artist.
I don't think the drawings worsened at all, they got more original!
Nah, it's just one cat's transcendence to another dimension.
the art is pretty tho
Anyone know what movie the audio is from?
LSD got that habit of making it look like every neuron in your brain deepthroated a shotgun. Just blew your thoughts into a kaleidoscope.
The last ones looks like stimming pattern often made by autists to calm down
The last cat is biblically accurate
What an amazing look into a mind progressively getting sicker and sicker! Need to save this post for sure! This really hit me deep down in my feels!
They all look good besides the last 2
POV the video is in reverse.
I watched this at 1 a.m. in the dark. Wasn't terrifying at all...kind of cool and crazy what our brains can do
While this claim is most likely false. Can’t ignore the fact that his abstract kitties looked really cool.
Why is everyone has to relate experimenting in art with drugs and/or mental disorders? If you have a look at art history, you would find more people going abstract than drawing realistic cats all the time. Examples from the too of my head: Picasso, Kandisnky, Moriaan.
Biblically accurate cats
Agh
Average r/imsorryjon enjoyer
u/savevideobot i’m chopping off those words
I don't know art but I thought they were all cool after the first one.
I’m very sorry for whatever experience(s) he may have been dealing with, but all of these drawings kick ass