Toulouse-Lautrec's Paris (2010)

Art Exhibition at San Diego Museum of Art.

Loved it. Mostly lithograph. I remember working with lithograph in high school, but have basically forgotten most of what I was suppose to be learning. Also drawings and sketches.

Saw pictures as well of the artist and the Paris he lived in. Lautrec doesn't look like a little person, if I can say that. He might have been small, but not in the way he's portrayed in Moulin Rouge film. As for the Paris of his age, I guess the future romanticizes about those headier days, but when I say actual pictures of it, it looks like squalor. I like modern images of Paris better. Another info I didn't know about him was that he was from a rich family.

Other than works of Toulouse-Lautrec, I was surprised at other things the museum held. This isn't NYC of SF after all.

In the Realms of the Unreal (2004)

Got done watching In the Realms of the Unreal about the outsider artist Henry Darger. I had watched less than half the film awhile ago, and decided it was time to finish it.

I love this to pieces. I didn't cry, I wept. I would purchase a copy of this if I had the funds.

Favorite were things Darger's landlady said about him:

Close to 300 pieces of paintings which most of them both sides, 30,000 pages of written work. One of the things Nathan use to say was - when you don't have a family, when you don't have television, you don't have radio, see what you can achieve; but he didn't think Henry slept very much.

Obviously his personal life was a very sad one, very lonely one, but his inter-life, I can't imagine anybody having a richer life than he had.