Crackpot Visionary Artist Marcel Storr

Photos and clips are allowed in this museum, but please, never use flash, as the works are fragile.

Some of the works shown here of the entire works of Marcel Storr, the naïve Parisian artist born in 1911 who died in 1971, an orphan, beaten and made deaf, an illiterate who did menial jobs and who died in poverty, obscurity and mental/substance abuse sickness after moving to Saint-Denis, where I live, so I consider him a kind of artist neighbor (my work is in many museums around the world), has some of the works shown here enlarged and dry-mounted so we can see the incredible detail. Other works are shown in original size, usually on cheap cardboard.

Besides a series of fantastic church drawings, his visions of cities, which could be our models when we are destroyed by nuclear disasters, he said, feeling sure the President of the United States would come see him for advice, look almost embroidered or in tapestry form. They have some texture. He declared himself a genius and Picasso "could not draw" and was no good, according to Storr. (My Parisian spouse hates Picasso and agrees with him on that.)

The works have a glowing, psychedelic quality, and since he did not learn perspective, many are huge, even in tryptich form, so we could see it all.

I think only one photo is known to exist of this artist, and this museum is in the 20th arrondissement of Paris and is free. The show will run well into March, 2012. The Pavillon Carré de Boudouin is typical of public arts spaces run by each city hall in Paris (there are 20) and is in an 18th century building in an interesting, non-posh neighborhood with a lot of good shopping (I have some clips up of this on CUTECATFAITH and also on Dailymotion under "LisaFalour"). The area is not well adapted to handicapped people. 121, rue de Ménilmontant, 75020 Paris France, telephone 01 58 53 55 40. The métro is GAMBETTA. The museum is open from 11 am until 6 pm. Many of the museums run by the city of Paris are always free, so if you get suckered into the big, famous expensive places, it's really your bad. I am available as a private guide here. I also facilitiate business and perform consulting services in the arts and sciences. I continue to write and do portraits and other arts commissions. I also teach and lecture when my health allows it.

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@qualqui He saw La Défense being built and was way into futuristic city planning, best he could imagine it. There are nearly always trees and gardens in his fantastic works. In fact, Paris has the most green spaces of any city in the world. They would not let tall towers go up in the city which is why La Défense was set up, and now, it is La Plaine Saint-Denis. xo

[qualqui]

Hmm.....so Monsieur Storr was a city planner,....can ya imagine if his paintings would've been carried out, the astounding amount of public gardens would make said city(Paris?)a Shangri-La,....thumbs up to ya beautiful and thankin' ya for another tour! =)

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@TheSheChef I hope people can actually see his stuff but if not they can get a glimpse here. What a horrible life he had. He should have never been born. Those pro life people drive me nuts. This guy was beaten in care, was schizophrenic, and grew up an idiot, really. He couldn't even look after his own wife, who had to insist he marry her so they could get benefits. A cycle of poverty and Welfare, and of course, the two kids ran off from them both. Probably wisely.

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thumbs up!