Henry Darger was a visual artist and novelist. Born in 1892 in Chicago, Darger lost his mother at just four years old, at age eight he was placed in the Mission of Our Lady of Mercy Catholic orphanage after his father became ill and could no longer care for himself. Darger was not public about his artwork or secret passions. Darger had written 15,000 page fantasy novel "The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What Is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm" His work had not been seen by anyone until 1972 when his apartment had been cleared out shortly before he died. Darger wrote himself into the story as both the betrayer and savior of the child-victim characters depicted in the novel. He wrote these immense novels in order to cope with his difficult and depressing childhood. "I hated to see the day come when I will be grown up. I never wanted to. I wished to be young always." (Darger)
Darger's medium for most of his works include painting, drawing, newspaper collage, comic books, cartoons, etc.
I like this blog because it was informative and you choose nice pictures to go along with it and i had fun reading it my only issue was all the writing at the bottom, it be nice if you spread it a little so annoying people like me can focus and not get distracted, i have ADHD but thats is not ur problem, so maybe don't listen to me? lol. your awesome maya i really like you.
ReplyDeleteYou chose a really cool artist. It's sad that he was not recognized in his lifetime.
ReplyDeleteYou could have spaced out the text a bit more throughout the post, but that is really my only complaint. Your descriptions included a lot of insight into his life and his reasons for including what he did in his art.
-Benjy
This is an interesting and informative post. The amount of information provides a background to the pictures that you provided in this post, which is a nice balance! Cool post!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed your background information. It helped me see why Darger's work has such a fairytale and child-like quality. He has thin, detailed lines and lots of color. His paintings are very satisfactory in that they fill up the entire picture and if there is white space, it very much has a purpose.
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