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Joseph Cornell: One Of The Most Recognized Collage Artists In The World
Joseph Cornell was one of the numerous American collage artists but may far better possibly be referred to as a homebody artist. Cornell, a lean, grey wraith of a gentleman, seemed to be like among the odd-duck daydreamers in an Anne Tyler novel. Day in and day out, he would sat home located on Utopia Parkway and drinking tea in his tiny kitchen area while he wrote in his periodicals as well as mused on ballerinas who had been around a century earlier. He devoted most of his life inside a frame house in New York, together with his mother and his crippled brother. Cornell had absolutely no existence to speak of, no friends and very little when it comes to actual physical relationships. Just what he did have was his artwork, box assemblages. This reclusive, long-beaked man will sally out on small voyages of discovery, scavenging for relics of the past throughout New York junk merchants and flea trading markets. To Cornell these were the strata of repressed recollection, a jumble of elements waiting to be grafted and mated to one another.
Making use of bits and pieces of the real world, Joseph Cornell constructed small dreamlike realms. A portion of a zodiacal map, a fascinating postage stamp, a broken wine glass, a remnant of clay bubble pipe, a colored ball or two: he sorted parts such as these behind the glass front of a wooden case to make a whole which embodied his compulsive yet generally enchanting nostalgias. He would arrange his finds into their eccentric categories and file all of them with boxes of his very own souvenirs, such as movie stars or perhaps ballet dancers he'd never met; and from them he made boxes. He would mess with mixed media paintings for years. It is filled with emblems of expeditions Cornell never had taken, a little box of mummified waves as well as shrunken exotic coasts, peninsulas, planets, items set in compartments. Even the map on the inside of the lid, cut from some 19th German graph publication, represents an exceedingly distant coastline. Our planet is presented not only as our daily home but as one strange planet among others.
Cornell was particularly affected by the collages of Victorian steel engravings in Max Ernst's series La Femme 100 tetes. Yet exactly nowhere in Surrealism can there be imagery that can compare with his. Cornell's imagery had to do with childhood birth without rage or desire. Often he would break the glass pane that protected the items in the box which implies that the sanctuary of imagination has been invaded. That glass, the 'fourth wall' of his miniature theater, is likewise the diaphragm between a pair of different realms. It depicts outside, mayhem, catastrophe, as well as the stuff of unprotected life; inside, sublimation, recollection, and tranquility.
Cornell's creativity looks fey or valuable. There is a treacherous line between sentiment and sentimentality. However his gothic dreams and fussily reverential evocations of deceased Victorian ballerinas are usually drawn back from the brink by Cornell's rigor as being a conventional painter. Cornell has been intensely Francophile, although he had never been in France - witness his many references to French provincial lodges, and even by the worn, cozy French hues of his box interiors, the ivory whites and pinks and pale blue-grays.
With his renowned shadow boxes, Joseph Cornell, one of the greatest collage artists, took the flotsam of everyday life - inexpensive wine cups, worn out toys, tiny medication bottles, rusting thimbles, aged cork stoppers and paper cutouts - and invested all of them with the luminous permanence of fine art. In works such as ''Penny Arcade Portrait of Lauren Bacall,'' ''Medici Princess,'' ''Roses des Vents'' and ''The Hotel Eden,'' the authentic is converted into the unique, the mundane directly into enchanting: movie stars and paper parrots become iconic deities in Cornell's personal universe.
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