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* [[The KLF]] took this trope as far as it can be taken without murdering someone. They pelted audiences with money, "advertised" by releasing surreal manifestos, and announced their retirement from the music industry by firing a machinegun (loaded with blanks) into the crowd at a music award show and dumping a sheep carcass on stage. After that they deleted their entire back catalogue, awarded a Turner Prize winner with forty thousand pounds for "worst artist of the year" after threatening to burn the money if she didn't accept it, and eventually filmed themselves burning one million pounds.
* The artists of the Italian futurist movement claimed to be furiously insane and were proud of it. That is not so surprising to hear from people who stated they wanted to burn and destroy books, libraries, cemetaries, symbols of the past in general and institute a course for Italian children in which they would be exposed to increasingly dangerous threats. Not too surprisingly, they helped to inspire the Fascist movement, and many of them joined.
* Quebec poet
* Phil Spector's "Wall of Sound" and other abilities made him one of the greatest record producers ever. He also liked to hold women at gunpoint, leading to the murder of Lana Clarkson.
* Francisco Goya started by painting commissioned portraits and ended with dark, nightmarish imagery. Throughout his life, he underwent a [[Creator Breakdown|mental breakdown]], likely brought on by the lead he used to mix his paints.
* Ezra Pound, described by [[Time (magazine)|''TIME'' magazine]] as "a cat that walks by himself, tenaciously unhousebroken and very unsafe for children." His support of the Nazis and continued antisemitism for the rest of his life, stemming from his outrage over the pointless loss of life during World War I, has ensured his work will forever be controversial. He also suffered a complete breakdown after being kept in solitary confinement for almost a month after World War II.
* The speaker in the satirical essay ''[[wikipedia:On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts|On Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts]]'' by Thomas de Quincy. However, it's less Mad Artist and more Mad Art Critic.
* [http://www.cracked.com/article_15963_5-works-art-that-can-probably-kill-you.html Pretty much all of the artists in this Cracked article.]
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