what a lovely poem! These pictures go with it so well. Cats are brilliant. the very first poem I learnt was about a cat, when I was four. unfortunately I can't remember it except the lines "cats sleep anywhere, on the sofa's, on a chair"
Ah, I love him! I always remember reading about him in high school, and how his works became increasingly abstract as he suffered from schizophrenia..but I also believe that was subject to debate?
I only discovered him yesterday, and was delighted. His drawings sent my Dale running to the pencil pot, he's already done a lovely picture of our willow cat. Alot of people think Louis had Aspergers, which I think is more likely than schizophrenia. Loads of children are miss-daignosed with bipolar or schizophrenia when they are actually autistic/tourettic. He chose to draw humans as cats, which is very much an aspergers trait: it helps them understand human nature more by comparing humans to animals. Lots of the children in the special school I worked in did that, one little boy draw his mother as a spawning toad to come to grips with her pregnancy, I had a hard time explaining that humans don't make toad spawn! You are so lucky having read about him in high school, my school stuck with all the typical and famous artists.
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I always thought the two of them were, like, crazy cat twins in their respective mediums.
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Alot of people think Louis had Aspergers, which I think is more likely than schizophrenia. Loads of children are miss-daignosed with bipolar or schizophrenia when they are actually autistic/tourettic. He chose to draw humans as cats, which is very much an aspergers trait: it helps them understand human nature more by comparing humans to animals. Lots of the children in the special school I worked in did that, one little boy draw his mother as a spawning toad to come to grips with her pregnancy, I had a hard time explaining that humans don't make toad spawn!
You are so lucky having read about him in high school, my school stuck with all the typical and famous artists.
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