In 1991, artist Bryan Charnley stopped taking his schizophrenia medication… and painted 17 self-portraits documenting his mind unraveling in real time. First one: calm, realistic. Last one: pure chaos — face melting, reality gone. Art doesn’t get more real than this. 🖤

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In 1991, artist Bryan Charnley stopped taking his schizophrenia medication… and painted 17 self-portraits documenting his mind unraveling in real time. First one: calm, realistic. Last one: pure chaos — face melting, reality gone. Art doesn’t get more real than this. 🖤 (nitter.poast.org)

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There's artists that suffer alzheimers chronicaling their descent into the void and it's very similar. Some other guy did his cats- that one's pretty wild

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Someone replied with the cat paintings (x.com). The artist’s name was Louis Wain.

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And yet still not insane enough to believe he was a woman.

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