Henry Darger

I watched the movie about Henry Darger and his fantasy “ In the realms of unreal” Probably, every people around him thought he was different, but I do not think he was mentally ill, because was working normally and he was able to lead the normal life, however from some of his characteristics and behavior, I think he was kind of developmentally-disabled individual such as asperger syndrome. He had had a lot of hard experience since he was young, also he subjected to unjust treatment by people around him, and he had a beef with world, however these diversified experiences led him to write the fantasy, because I felt some part of his life is projected on his fantasy. so if he had the happy life, maybe we couldn’t see his art. I think he is creative, because he created a lot of new ideas and new things from his experience, his imagination, and some part of magazines, books or pictures that we can’t imagine. For example, when I saw his book illustrations on the movie, I was so shocked. I could not understand that girls have something that girls usually don’t have in real world, but I like his colors of the book illustrations.

Also, his book illustrations are receiving recognition as outsider art. He is a one of the famous outsider artist, so these evidence shows he is creative too.

I think we should about care his art, because there is no work like Henry Dager created, and he spent over 60 years for this production. This is not easy to do. Also he was different from other people, and this is mean nobody can create art like him.