He painted cats all his life. Why did his painting style change greatly after 7 minutes of cardiac arrest?

There is a saying in life. Genius is only one step away from madness? In fact, many famous masters are paranoid to some extent. Have you heard of Louis? Louis Wain? In the west, he is a big presence, and Wayne has another nickname:? Cat slave painter? . He became attached to cats all his life.

In the above picture, this naive and human-friendly cat image comes from Wayne. In his life, he painted thousands of pictures about cats, large and small. In fact, there is a sad story behind it.

In p>186, Wayne was born in Crockenville, northeast of London, England. His father was a British textile trader, and he had five younger sisters. Wayne spent his childhood in loneliness because of his harelip. At that time, doctors advised his parents not to go to school to avoid being bullied by his classmates. However, even so, Wayne entered the school, and sure enough, he was excluded.

For this reason, he often skipped classes at school and spent most of his time wandering around the streets of London. Finally, Wayne managed to get into the West London Art Institute, where he studied painting. At the age of 2, Wayne's father died, and the young Wayne had to shoulder the burden of his family. He became a freelance artist and began to support his family by drawing detailed illustrations in English, country estates and houses, and livestock painted at agricultural exhibitions.

At the age of 23, Wayne met his sister's tutor, Emily, who is ten years older than him. Emily Richardson, they fell in love quickly. Although Wayne's feelings were criticized by everyone, they still managed to live together. After their wedding life, Emily was diagnosed with breast cancer and suffered from the disease all the year round.

During this period, Emily's cat, peter, became one of the few factors that made her happy. In order to make his wife happy, Wayne drew a lot of sketches about Peter, and later created cartoon pictures.

Emily discovered Wayne's talent. She encouraged her husband to send his paintings to the newspaper for submission. It was because of his wife's encouragement that Wayne's cat paintings received unanimous praise and spread to Europe from then on.

However, after three years of marriage, Emily left her beloved husband forever because of illness, which also caused Wayne to fall into great sorrow. However, it was also this year that Wayne painted "The Christmas Party of Kittens" for the London News, which became his classic work. One hundred and fifty cats in the painting stood like people, dressed in human clothes, and were full of human expressions, chatting, playing and having fun like people.

After losing his wife, Wayne was always depressed. He returned to his home and lived with his five unmarried sisters and his mother. However, as the years passed, blows followed. First, the outbreak of World War I caused the sales of Wayne's paintings to drop sharply, and he fell into a financial crisis. Then the Spanish flu took his mother's life. This made Wayne fall into deep despair, and he began to become irritable, irritable and stubborn. Finally, in 1924, middle-aged Winn decided to commit suicide by diving, but he was rescued and sent to the hospital. Wayne's heart stopped suddenly for 7 minutes, but miraculously recovered. Wayne was finally sent to a mental hospital, and the results showed that he was suffering from neurasthenia and schizophrenia.

For Wayne's story, many public figures, such as Herbert, a science fiction novel, stepped in one after another. Celebrities from all walks of life in Britain set up a special fund to support him, so that he would not end up in poverty. Wayne was finally sent to Springfield Psychological Hospital for treatment. Here, Wayne spent the last fifteen years of his life, and he continued to write. Cats remained his focus.

However, Wayne's painting style has changed greatly at the moment. There is something wrong with this cat. Compared with before, it makes people feel a variety of negative emotions such as cunning, gloomy and panic. These horrible cats became his main works in his later period, and many netizens also said that Wayne's later works became more and more infiltrated. So people call it? Wayne cat? . You can imagine the painter's later pain, and Wayne's story is also touching.