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Posted on January 13, 2012

Louis Wain was an artist popular in the late 1800s and early 1900s for his drawings and paintings of cats. It… was a different time. This psychedelic abstraction is presumably symptomatic of his severe schizophrenia, as his pre-diagnosis cat renderings tended to look more like this. Some folks speculate that the onset of Wain’s schizophrenia was precipitated by toxoplasmosis, a parasitic infection that can be contracted from cats. Isn’t it ironic. Don’thcha think?

Louis Wain was an artist popular in the late 1800s and early 1900s for his drawings and paintings of cats. It… was a different time. This psychedelic abstraction is presumably symptomatic of his severe schizophrenia, as his pre-diagnosis cat renderings tended to look more like this. Some folks speculate that the onset of Wain’s schizophrenia was precipitated by toxoplasmosis, a parasitic infection that can be contracted from cats. Isn’t it ironic. Don’thcha think?

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