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Schizophrenic fractalcats of the early 20th century.
There's this man named Louis Wain, who lived back in a time before computers, before mathematical fractal art, and in a time where postcards were tip-top twenty three skidoo and stuff like that. In the late 1800's/early 1900's, Wain became famous for his whimsical pictures of cats on postcards. He started drawing them for his dying wife and it soon became a way of life for him, becoming fairly famous in his time.
However, Wain also was not very good with interacting with commonly-agreed upon perceptions of reality due to a slow, late-in-life onset of schizophrenia. Later in life he landed in Bedlam, the famous mental institution of London. His art is often used as an example in university psychology classes of how people's perceptions (As reflected in his art) change through some forms of the mental illness, and to show the possible link between toxoplasmosis infections (Worms in cat poop that you probably have breathed in/contracted at one point in your life) and schizophrenia. His images post-onset of mental illness are fairly resemblant of the fractals, dharmic religious art, and psychedelic art of the past and future of his time. Here I'll assemble a bit of a gallery of this wonderful artist's works, and some links explaining more of the story of Louis Wain.
http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/nbb421/student2003/epl8/Blank%20Page%202.htm
http://www.lilitu.com/catland/
http://aura-archangemaudit.blogspot.com/2005/12/mad-about-cats-louis-wain.html [en español, yo visitar chile y argentina por uno y media meses ahora :) ]
http://www.cerebromente.org.br/gallery/gall_leonardo/fig1-a.htm
http://facweb.furman.edu/~einstein/general/disorderdemo/paintings.htm
Innocent enough.
"Entrenched" but "Safe from match-making maniacs—Hull o you Girls!
Things start to get more interesting around here...
And then things start kicking in full-force.
And a montage video to wrap it up.
However, Wain also was not very good with interacting with commonly-agreed upon perceptions of reality due to a slow, late-in-life onset of schizophrenia. Later in life he landed in Bedlam, the famous mental institution of London. His art is often used as an example in university psychology classes of how people's perceptions (As reflected in his art) change through some forms of the mental illness, and to show the possible link between toxoplasmosis infections (Worms in cat poop that you probably have breathed in/contracted at one point in your life) and schizophrenia. His images post-onset of mental illness are fairly resemblant of the fractals, dharmic religious art, and psychedelic art of the past and future of his time. Here I'll assemble a bit of a gallery of this wonderful artist's works, and some links explaining more of the story of Louis Wain.
"I wonder whether fractal images are not touching the very structure of our brains. Is there a clue in the infinitely regressing character of such images that illuminates our perception of art? Could it be that a fractal image is of such extraordinary richness, that it is bound to resonate with our neuronal circuits and stimulate the pleasure I infer we all feel?" (P. W. Atkins)
http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/nbb421/student2003/epl8/Blank%20Page%202.htm
http://www.lilitu.com/catland/
http://aura-archangemaudit.blogspot.com/2005/12/mad-about-cats-louis-wain.html [en español, yo visitar chile y argentina por uno y media meses ahora :) ]
http://www.cerebromente.org.br/gallery/gall_leonardo/fig1-a.htm
http://facweb.furman.edu/~einstein/general/disorderdemo/paintings.htm
Innocent enough.
Things start to get more interesting around here...And then things start kicking in full-force.And a montage video to wrap it up.
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