Tag: Art Brut

In the Realms of the Unreal with Henry Darger and the Vivian Girls

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Today Henry Darger, who died a few months after the discovery of his gargantuan work "In the Realms of the Unreal", is considered one of the greatest exponents of the so-called "art brut", that artistic production made by people often on the margins of society, as inmates and psychiatric patients. Illustrated by more than 300 watercolors, his creation was set in an alternate world where the atheist and slave nation of Glandelia and the Christian and free nation of Angelinia, led to freedom by the Vivian Girls, fought.

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