Alright Ladies and Gentlemen,
because I know there are more than a few of you out there interested in him, let me open up the floor on Joseph Cornell. His assemblage works some might call surreal, morbid, then YOU might just call them happy and inspiring; but I don't think you would disagree that they show a level of calculated skill and completion. It at least serves to catch the eye, and from that point is where blogs like this take over.
I am attaching some useful websites to check out his work. After you do, I want you to report back here and let us know your thoughts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Cornell
http://artchive.com/artchive/C/cornell.html (great images of his work)
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/02/17/030217crat_atlarge?currentPage=1
recommends Mary Ann Caws's 1993 anthology "Joseph Cornell's Theater of the Mind"
(this New Yorker article paints a great picture of Cornell's life and from where his art comes.
Go get 'em, Tiger.
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That New Yorker article definitely gave valuable insight into Cornell's character and state of mind. In many of his works the viewer gets the sense that he is capturing/worshipping something just out of reach (He loved women-from actresses, ballerines, even waitresses, often to the point where he would obsess and stock them).
I love this quote in the article:
“The unobtainable appealed to Cornell, not because it prevented him from having a real emotional life but because it fed his real emotional life, which was built on longing-commercial, erotic, and romantic”
The unobtainable made his work all the more authentic...there is a longing there for something he wants desperately but is content in not having. This is what fed his work. Just seeing and feeling that desire and romance from afar was enough because it was very real to him in his own world of childhood innocence and fantasy. I think all artists can relate to this.
Does anyone else have any comments about or know of artists that create art that is surreal/creepy/dark/sublime.....??
Okay, we each have things in life that we relate to better than others. Now drag this issue over to the realm of art criticism. In the Artworld, to who or what can you personally relate? I challenge you, Dear
Thinkers (myself included), to give a post on this blog a mini-critique (or a big one if you like), on something that you have a special way of connecting with that not everyone has. Make sure you specify what this topic is personal to you. Tell a story, post some pictures; but more than just comment on the issue, give us examples. Share. When else do you have an open invitation to be blatantly critical and for reasons perfectly subjective to you?
Ready, set, CRITICISE!
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