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Fascinating coincidence?

Joseph Cornell - Found Art Objects

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Cornell

Current retrospective at the Smithsonian Inst. in Wash., DC:
http://americanart.si.edu/collections/exhibitions.cfml

Examples:
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/cornell/

Listen to a brief history:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... Id=6668536

AND, of course, the Cornell Box:
http://www.graphics.cornell.edu/online/box/


Pretty cool. Now, I can imagine a modeling contest with Joseph Cornell's boxes as the inspiration....

Merry Christmas all!

Kirk

I agree Joseph Cornell's boxes are truly amazing. I first saw some of them about 20+ years ago. From a distance they look like just a bunch of stuff in a shadow box. But once you get within a certain distance their gravity draws you into a magical world.
What was so striking to me was how each one was so wonderful and so different.
He was a genius.

I haven't seen these examples in real life but I find it hard to see this as genius works.