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Jun. 28th, 2006 10:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stillbourneWhile Im talking about cool ppl:
My latest lil art obsession:
Henry Darger
http://www.hammergallery.com/Artists/darger/Darger.htm
Orphaned, raised in a feeble children's asylum, ran away and back to his hometown of chicago to work at a catholic hospital as a janitor.
no one noticed him by day, he was a recluse...no phone, no friends, no tv, no one to share his life with....
but at night he filled his place with a story called The Realms of the Unreal. It wasa fiction about the "Vivian girls'" battle to end child slavery
It was 12 HUGE volumes long. Fully illustrated in watercolor and collage. (some of his canvasses were 12 feet high butcher papers taped together, others were notebook sketches and everything in between) it *also* contained battle songs books, ledgers on costs of war, death logs and every other supplimental material he could imagine....
his images are childrens book-like and disturbing, but you get a very keen sense of what this man thought was important, his inner struggle with god, gender, growing up, war and weather. His strongest artistic asset to me was his use of color. his compositions are so-so, but considering he had no art training, they are very insightful.
He lived and died poor and alone, but his imaginary world was the most rich and lucid I have EVER seen!
His work is fascinating to me. uncorrupted but very ...distorted.
He drew beautiful both-gendered goat-"girls" with wings....and thats my kinda thing :)
Here is oneof his drawings. the 7 blonde Vivian girls are in the center.
My latest lil art obsession:
Henry Darger
http://www.hammergallery.com/Artists/darger/Darger.htm
Orphaned, raised in a feeble children's asylum, ran away and back to his hometown of chicago to work at a catholic hospital as a janitor.
no one noticed him by day, he was a recluse...no phone, no friends, no tv, no one to share his life with....
but at night he filled his place with a story called The Realms of the Unreal. It wasa fiction about the "Vivian girls'" battle to end child slavery
It was 12 HUGE volumes long. Fully illustrated in watercolor and collage. (some of his canvasses were 12 feet high butcher papers taped together, others were notebook sketches and everything in between) it *also* contained battle songs books, ledgers on costs of war, death logs and every other supplimental material he could imagine....
his images are childrens book-like and disturbing, but you get a very keen sense of what this man thought was important, his inner struggle with god, gender, growing up, war and weather. His strongest artistic asset to me was his use of color. his compositions are so-so, but considering he had no art training, they are very insightful.
He lived and died poor and alone, but his imaginary world was the most rich and lucid I have EVER seen!
His work is fascinating to me. uncorrupted but very ...distorted.
He drew beautiful both-gendered goat-"girls" with wings....and thats my kinda thing :)
Here is oneof his drawings. the 7 blonde Vivian girls are in the center.
