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Portrait of a Kleptomaniac or Portrait of an Insane Person (French: L'Aliéné or Portrait d'un Cleptomane aka Le Monomane du Vol) is an 1822 oil painting by Théodore Géricault. It is part of series of ten portraits made for the psychiatrist Étienne-Jean Georget and is currently kept in the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium.
The Portraits of the Insane depict patients from the Paris mental hospitals La Salpêtrière and Bicêtre. [4]: 14 [3] Art historians have described the portraits as significant for their "unprecedented objective sobriety,” [5] observing that they "have a powerful realism that is entirely unaffected by romantic sentiment or artistic dramatization.” [3]
Interest in the art of insane asylum inmates continued to grow in the 1920s. In 1921, Dr. Walter Morgenthaler published his book Ein Geisteskranker als Künstler (A Psychiatric Patient as Artist) about Adolf Wölfli, a psychotic mental patient in his care. Wölfli had spontaneously taken up drawing, and this activity seemed to calm him.
Louis William Wain (5 August 1860 – 4 July 1939) was an English artist best known for his drawings of anthropomorphised cats and kittens. Wain was born in Clerkenwell, London. In 1881 he sold his first drawing and the following year gave up his teaching position at the West London School of Art to become a full-time illustrator. He married in ...
Vincent van Gogh, Self-portrait with Bandaged Ear, Easel and Japanese Print, January 1889.Van Gogh, who struggled with poverty and mental illness for most of his life, is regarded as a famous example of the tortured artist.
Henry Joseph Darger Jr. (/ ˈ d ɑːr ɡ ər / DAR-ghər; April 12, 1892 – April 13, 1973) was an American writer, novelist and artist who worked as a hospital custodian in Chicago, Illinois. [1]
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Yan Hui depicts the crazy-wise Hanshan 寒山. Color on silk. Tokyo National Museum. According to June McDaniel and other scholars, divine madness is found in the history and practices of many cultures and may reflect religious ecstasy or expression of divine love. [3]