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The Woman with Gambling Mania (French: La Folle Monomane du jeu) is an 1822 painting by Théodore Géricault.It is a member of a series of ten portraits of people with specific manias done by Géricault between 1820 and 1824, including Portrait of a Kleptomaniac and Insane Woman. [2]
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]
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 ...
Relativity is a lithograph print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher, first printed in December 1953.The first version of this work was a woodcut made earlier that same year. [1]
TikTok user @missbeifong decided to ask her followers, . “What’s the most insane actual rich person behavior that you’ve experienced?”. One user, named Dani, shared that when she was in ...
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.
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.