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Henry Darger was an American “[[outsider artist]]” – although whether this is a coherent term or applicable to Darger at all is highly debated. He was a poor street kid in Chicago, escaped from a youth asylum, and worked various menial gigs at Catholic hospitals for most of his long life. Just before his death, his landlords found out the massive cache of very strange art and writing he had made over his life. Thankfully, these landlords were artists themselves, and they went to the ends of the Earth to publicize his work posthumously (and got themselves some good money in the process.) His visual work was very creepy, very weird, and honestly very beautiful, all made through tracing figures from the books and magazines he collected. His written work is also something of a collage, but an absolute slog to get through; no one on Earth has read it all. I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I have enjoyed working on it – it’s my longest article, although at least it’s not 15,000 words, much less 15,000 ”pages”. <small> [[User:Generalissima|Generalissima]] ([[User talk:Generalissima|talk]]) (it/she) </small> 01:16, 5 December 2025 (UTC) |
Henry Darger was an American “[[outsider artist]]” – although whether this is a coherent term or applicable to Darger at all is highly debated. He was a poor street kid in Chicago, escaped from a youth asylum, and worked various menial gigs at Catholic hospitals for most of his long life. Just before his death, his landlords found out the massive cache of very strange art and writing he had made over his life. Thankfully, these landlords were artists themselves, and they went to the ends of the Earth to publicize his work posthumously (and got themselves some good money in the process.) His visual work was very creepy, very weird, and honestly very beautiful, all made through tracing figures from the books and magazines he collected. His written work is also something of a collage, but an absolute slog to get through; no one on Earth has read it all. I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I have enjoyed working on it – it’s my longest article, although at least it’s not 15,000 words, much less 15,000 ”pages”. <small> [[User:Generalissima|Generalissima]] ([[User talk:Generalissima|talk]]) (it/she) </small> 01:16, 5 December 2025 (UTC) |
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* I performed the GA review a couple of months ago, so I’ll continue here with an FA review. The article is on a very unique individual! |
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* … in progress … [[User:Noleander|Noleander]] ([[User talk:Noleander|talk]]) 03:49, 5 December 2025 (UTC) |
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- Nominator(s): Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 01:16, 5 December 2025 (UTC)
Henry Darger was an American “outsider artist” – although whether this is a coherent term or applicable to Darger at all is highly debated. He was a poor street kid in Chicago, escaped from a youth asylum, and worked various menial gigs at Catholic hospitals for most of his long life. Just before his death, his landlords found out the massive cache of very strange art and writing he had made over his life. Thankfully, these landlords were artists themselves, and they went to the ends of the Earth to publicize his work posthumously (and got themselves some good money in the process.) His visual work was very creepy, very weird, and honestly very beautiful, all made through tracing figures from the books and magazines he collected. His written work is also something of a collage, but an absolute slog to get through; no one on Earth has read it all. I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I have enjoyed working on it – it’s my longest article, although at least it’s not 15,000 words, much less 15,000 pages. Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 01:16, 5 December 2025 (UTC)
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- I performed the GA review a couple of months ago, so I’ll continue here with an FA review. The article is on a very unique individual!
