Louis Wain Cats Schizophrenia. And if you look at these slides you'll see the examples of these. Louis wain was a british artist best known for his bizarre paintings and prints of anthropomorphized cats playing golf or having tea.
When it comes to cats in art, louis wain was the artist that made us all see the human side of cats. Focusing more and more on patterns, wain's drawings of Wain, along with members of his family, suffered from various mental illnesses.
In 1886, wain's first drawing of anthropomorphised cats was published in the christmas issue of the illustrated london news , titled a kittens' christmas party.
This is said to be possible through the exposure to toxoplasmosis, which is an infection created by parasites that cats can become host. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Louis wain was a illustrator and he started by illustrating a variety of different persons and objects but then, beginning around 1896, he started painting what are called anthropomorphized cats. In his later years he may have suffered from schizophrenia (although this claim is widely disputed among many specialists if this is true or not), which, according to some.