Thursday, May 08, 2008

'Like Richard Dadd'


This song has been on my turntable today - it was done by 90s band 70 Gwen Party but there's nothing much about this genius band on the web so therefore I thought it might be worth blogging about Richard Dadd himself. Dadd was a Victorian artist who probably suffered from bipolar disorder who killed his father with a knife and razor and made most of his intriguing paintings while in the asylum. Most famous of his work is the Fairy Feller's Master Stroke but there's so much more to him than this - this site has much about him and links to most of his art. One of his paintings turned up on the Antiques Roadshow tv programme, of all places. Wikipedia entry