Showing posts with label Folk Art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Folk Art. Show all posts
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Epic Proportions. The Sand Art Of Andrew Clemens.
From Antiques Roadshow.
APPRAISER: ...on A. Clemens, the guy who made this. He was born in 1856 and died in 1894. When he was five years old, he had what his family called "brain fever," and he went to the deaf-mute school in Iowa, and would come home in the summers, and he started going to this spot on the Mississippi River in McGregor, Iowa, collecting sand and sort of experimenting with making these bottles. He used a great big, over-sized fishhook, and like a popsicle stick, and he would take the sand, that he had collected along the Mississippi River, and then he would pack it in this bottle and manipulate it with the fishhook. He gained national fame for making these, and today, there's an exhibit on this guy at the Iowa State Museum.
APPRAISER: ...on A. Clemens, the guy who made this. He was born in 1856 and died in 1894. When he was five years old, he had what his family called "brain fever," and he went to the deaf-mute school in Iowa, and would come home in the summers, and he started going to this spot on the Mississippi River in McGregor, Iowa, collecting sand and sort of experimenting with making these bottles. He used a great big, over-sized fishhook, and like a popsicle stick, and he would take the sand, that he had collected along the Mississippi River, and then he would pack it in this bottle and manipulate it with the fishhook. He gained national fame for making these, and today, there's an exhibit on this guy at the Iowa State Museum.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Henry Darger at the Folk Art Museum, NYC
Henry Darger is known for creating the longest single piece of writing ever known: "In the Realms of the Unreal," a labyrinthine novel of more than 15,000 closely spaced pages for which his paintings serve as illustrations. Also an incomplete 8,000-page sequel, illustrated, and many thousands of pages of other writings -- including a gargantuan autobiography recounting Darger's troubled and institutionalized youth and his 53-year career as a laborer.
The American Folk Art Museum is devoting an intimate gallery on the fourth floor to rotating exhibitions focusing on a single theme. The first of these showcases eight of the nearly three hundred watercolors Henry Darger created to illustrate his 15,000-page manuscript The Story of the Vivian Girls, in what is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion. Volume 6 of that epic is also on view.
The museum is home to the single largest public repository of works by Henry Darger (1892 - 1973), one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century. The works on view in "Up Close: Henry Darger" are drawn from this extensive collection.
The show is up until September 2009 and here is the link to the museum.
The American Folk Art Museum is devoting an intimate gallery on the fourth floor to rotating exhibitions focusing on a single theme. The first of these showcases eight of the nearly three hundred watercolors Henry Darger created to illustrate his 15,000-page manuscript The Story of the Vivian Girls, in what is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion. Volume 6 of that epic is also on view.
The museum is home to the single largest public repository of works by Henry Darger (1892 - 1973), one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century. The works on view in "Up Close: Henry Darger" are drawn from this extensive collection.
The show is up until September 2009 and here is the link to the museum.
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