Joseph cornell boxes

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

Cornell, Joseph: Untitled (To Marguerite Blachas)

still life

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 (1903-1972) was eccentric and reclusive and went about NYC and environs collecting little bits and pieces of things: shells, old diaries, album covers. He felt there were certain objects that belonged together that had been separated, possibly by decades, and made otherworldly, magical assemblage boxes that purported to reunite them.This idea of making

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Students will: Create a mixed media shadow box that features a foreground, middle ground and background. Possible materials: paper cut outs drawings paint collage 3-D objects light source Possible...

Joseph Cornell

I quote the Mighty and All Powerfully Omnipotent Wikipedia: A shadow box is an enclosed glass-front case containing an object or objects presented in a thematic grouping with artistic or personal s…

One of my favorite Joseph Cornell boxes. Naples.