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| singer Patti Smith, PHOTO CREDIT: Patrick McMullan via patrickmcmullan.com |
Singer Patti Smith made a comment about a gifted artist who did not become famous before he died in 1973 many people with vision need to hear, embrace, and understand. Henry Darger, born in 1892 was a prolific writer and artist who made a living as a janitor. He is famous posthumously for his 15,145-page, single-spaced fantasy manuscript called The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion, which came with several hundred drawings and watercolor paintings illustrating the story
Patti Smith sang at the benefit for Henry Darger in 2010. The event was held by The American Folk Art Museum. In between songs she commented on how artists who live in obscurity as opposed to the mainstream stay true to themselves and are at one with their Creator. They usually die in obscurity, never welcomed in their time, perhaps victims of independence who hold fast to their vision till their dying day.
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| art by Henry Darger |
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