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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