The progressive escape of reality towards delusion is expressed in the pictures above. They were painted by Louis Wain, a European artist in the beginning of this century. Since Wain was young, he used to draw and paint cats for calendars, albums, postcards, etc. When he became 57 years old, he  was affected by an unknow mental disorder , which overtook his life as well his art. The last 15 years of his life were spent in psychiatric institutions. His cat’s paintings started to change and to show startling images. Quite revealing of his psychotic condition were the cat’s eyes. See how they become fixed with hostility, even in the earliest paintings, because the psychotic probably tends to think that the world is looking upon him in a menacing way. Another sign is the fragmentation of the cat’s body. They become altered in a strange way under the psychotic’s gaze, and almost always are represented as distorted and phantastic shapes

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Dangerous 1950s wedding ceremony (Watch the video here)

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“World’s Most Dangerous Dance Routine”, c. 1938 (video)

Dangerous dance regime - on a plank, 19 storeys high. These dancers are performing a slowed down version of The Big Apple but in a rather precarious location. One wrong step and death would be inevitable. 

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Meribeth Old is one of the most famous and most talented American contortionists of all time.  She performed during the 1950’s