There’s this soft-spoken autistic student in my year 8 class who makes these pencil and ink drawings of unbelievably beautiful, intricate fantasy creatures. They are utterly breathtaking and I wish I could share them in this thread.
Sanford Fisher of Gordon First Nation Artist.
As a result of an accident, the artist had his painting arm amputated, Fisher switched to his remaining hand and carried on painting with only a temporary loss of technical dexterity.
More info in Alt.
Pout Mask Replica 👄🇦🇺
Hurricane Girl
anyone else remember that year everyone was fucking pete davidson or did i invent that in a fugue state
mark rothko is my favorite painter of all time. i don't think the nature of his mental illness is known, but it was obviously severe and eventually physically disabling. his inability to communicate was the inspiration for his work.
When I started reading this thread, Yayoi Kusama came to mind. Stunning artist.
I knew that she has voluntarily lived a long time in a mental health facility; I did not know that she’s “the world's top-selling female artist, and the world's most successful living artist” according to her wiki. ‼️
Frances Meh
Blind willie mctell was a piedmont blues singer who was born blind of one eye and became completely blind as a child. Didnt stop him from learning the guitar and dropping banger after banger after banger. Seriously listen to dying crapshooters blues is just insane
Lizzy
I will never get over "a tattoo resembling a Nazi symbol." It resembles a Nazi symbol because *it is a Nazi symbol*.
Davoid
Renoir’s arthritic hands were so bad in his later life he bound paintbrushes to his hands since he couldn’t grip them.
The only thing you need to create is to be human 🤘
Making a thread of disabled artists because a lot of AI "artists" use disabilities as a defense for using the theft machine and are really quick to call you ableist for calling out that bullshit
You dont need to be of able body and or mind to create.
