(Sorry, I couldn’t find a more appropriate category - “Creativity”?.. And perhaps there were already been topics about this artist. However, it seems to me interesting.)
Louis William Wain
This cat, like many painted during this period, is shown with abstract patterns behind it. Psychologists have cited this increased abstraction as symptomatic of Wain’s schizophrenia, but others have argued that his “wallpaper cats” simply recall the patterns in his mother’s fabrics.