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Crazy painters

From: Doug Alan <nessus>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 85 13:14:15 edt
Subject: Crazy painters

> From: James Jones <allegra!uokvax!emjej>
> To: nessus

> This is true, but there have been cases in which, as an artist wanders
> into mental illness, his paintings become more and more bizarre.  An
> example I recall from yet another Time/Life book (God, we're educated
> folk here! :-) was of an English painter who did cat portraits.  The
> cats started looking suspiciously off to one side, then grew more and
> more fantastic.  Eventually they were brightly colored abstract designs
> which were barely recognizable as being inspired by cats.

Hmmm.  What would Dali's paintings have looked like if he had went crazy?

(Had went??)

				-Doug