Henry Darger's Warfare

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A few words on one of my favorite artist and a documentary about him: Henri Darger and the Realms of the Unreal.
Follow this link to read more about a great documentary on one of the most extraordinary outsider artist of the 20th century. It's called "The Realms of the Unreal" by Jessica Yu. The documentary, often narrated by children, brilliantly animates his spellbinding works of art.
Henry Darger is revealed as the men, we all deeply suspected that he was. A men, deeply troubled by a Dickensien childhood spent as an orphan in asylums for the mad. It's heart breaking but marvelous to see him succesfully escape in the world of pure ART.
The film doesn't linger on Darger's most disturbing imagery. And because of this, I would go as far as to suggest that "The Realms of the Unreal" would be highly appropriate for a young teenager, as an introduction to the many forbidding concepts that underpin most avant-garde art.
Hey, if they read you Grimm's Bleubeard as a child than you know what I mean...After all Darger's heroines "the Vivianes" are victorious, mostly....
F.Y.I. the site abduzeedo.com is amazing...check it out!
http://abduzeedo.com/henry-darger-art-any-mea