Cat Meditations

[Joe Fulton]

From Cheezburger...a LolCat!

[J. Spencer Rich]

The weird world of Louis Wain:
http://www.google.com/images?q=Louis+Wain&rls=com.microsoft:en-...

[Deb]

Wow!  thanks for this.  a kitty goldmine!

[Joe Fulton]

OMG!!! That reminds me of a mashup between LoLCats and the old (defunct) website, Badart.com. Some of the art on that site is so bad it's appealing in a twisted way.

[J. Spencer Rich]

I don't really think of it as bad. In a way, Wain was before his time. In his early years, he was a very popular illustrator of cats before schizophrenia took hold. He is most famous, probably, because of the famous "progression of schizophrenia" pieces that appeared in every series of Time-Life books about mental illness, etc. He had become destitute, but was actually saved by the Crown, who had remembered his early illustrations with fondness. But he definitely fits into the "Henry Darger" category of "outsider art." Even his early illustrations suggest some kind of twisted genius at work.

[Deb]

On the same theme . . . .