Louis Wain

Something else i quite like is when things are unexpectedly dark. There was an artist called Louis Wain who painted pictures of cat in sort of humanised situation. Playing guitar or at a tea party etc. But Wain spent most of his life in a mental institute, and was a manic depressive. There is something about it that makes seemingly boring sugary pictures alot more interesting. The Bad Seeds used a technique like this in there album 'the murder ballads', an album completely about murder, but all the inner artwork was beautiful engraving style pictures that are on there own quite innocent but in context have abit more to them.