Joseph Cornell

[Nearly Sane]

Will have to sort out a visit, looks fascinating

https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/joseph-cornell

[Maeght]

Not my sort of thing - but each to their own.

[Rhiannon]

How long has Cornell been well regarded? I can see why his stuff is interesting but I would have thought that not that long ago it would have been unthinkingly dismissed as twee.

[Nearly Sane]

He was reasonably successful when alive.   It is gentler than some of the art of the time but as part of surrealism it is within the pattern. I like found art as it ties in with an idea of serendipity that amuses me.

[Rhiannon]

Yes, I've just been watching the video explaining that. Otherwise I think his work may have been lost - shadow boxes aren't exactly the coolest medium. It's interesting that he was a surrealist before surrealism - I wonder aware he was of what he was creating? I like the idea he said 'collage=life', because I think layering the everyday would lead to some pretty surreal results.

[ippy]

I you call it art and get away with it and make a living, well who are we to judge?

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