This week I thought that I would choose an artist that uses found materials and such since all the money in the world will soon be gone. Hang onto those glass beads and wampum, people!
From Wikipedia >>
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. He lived in New York City for most of his life, in a wooden frame house on Utopia Parkway in a working-class area in Flushing, Queens. He lived there with his mother and his brother, Robert, who was disabled by cerebral palsy.[2] [3] Cornell attended Phillips Academy, Andover, in the Class of 1921.
I had the pleasure of seeing his work at the SF MOMA, Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination. It was really inspiring! I got that super charge spark of ideas you get from great art, and wanted to go home and create something right away. Some day I will make my own box and it will say Thank you Joseph Cornell on the inside.
More links to explore >>
The Joseph Cornell Box
The Guggenheim Collection
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