The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
Well, we spent Caturday evening watching a new movie with Benedict Cumberbatch on Prime: The Electrical Life of Louis Wain. It revolves around the figure of a British painter and illustrator specialized in animals, who created scandal and eventually started sketching cats posing as humans (or is it the other way around?), eventually ending up […]
Well, we spent Caturday evening watching a new movie with Benedict Cumberbatch on Prime: The Electrical Life of Louis Wain.
It revolves around the figure of a British painter and illustrator specialized in animals, who created scandal and eventually started sketching cats posing as humans (or is it the other way around?), eventually ending up being one of the most visionary artists at the beginning of the Century.
The movie is good in some aspects, but to me it ultimately failed to convey the twists of Wain’s artistic evolution and, to some extent, even the depth of his mental struggle. Cumberbatch however is, as you might expect, absolutely incredible.
From “The Children’s Friend” Volume XXXVII for 1897. Published in London by S.W. Partridge & Co.
