Cornell box

I never ever tire of seeing the wonderful art that my students (adults, this time) produce when making Joseph Cornell-inspired assemblages. 🐦 📦.

Cornell, Joseph: Untitled (To Marguerite Blachas)

'By collecting and carefully juxtaposing found objects in small, glass-front boxes, Cornell created visual poems in which surface, form, tex...

Joseph Cornell Box Art Influence on Rauschenberg and Johns

Thinking inside the box: romantic, obsessive and shy, Cornell never moved out of his mother’s house, yet his strange, exquisite art brought him fame and friendships with Duchamp, Dalí and Warhol

This took me an age to create digitally - or so I thought until my niece who is an assemblage artist told me that, starting with a vintage apothecary's cabinet, she estimates it will take her at least a year to fill with hand made metal and fabric items. I can't compete with that!! The shadow boxes and shadows are by Maya at Scrapbookgraphics. Elements are mostly from Lorie Davidson also of SBG and the old gramophone is from Finecrafted Designs.

Joseph Cornell (December 24, 1903 – December 29, 1972) was an American artist and sculptor, one of the pioneers and most celebrated exponents of assemblage. Influenced by the Surrealists, he was also an avant-garde experimental filmmaker.

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Joseph Cornell's 'Observatory: Corona Borealis Casement' (1950)

View Untitled (Sun Box (Circa 1958) By Cornell Joseph; wood, glass, metal rod, nails, brass rings, cork ball, pressed tin, seashell, clay pipe and tempera in a wooden box; 25,4 x 39,4 x 9,5 cm;; Signed; Edition. Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.