Girl From Ipanema

Stella Nets the Moon!

Joseph Cornell's "Cassiopeia 1"

Cornell, Joseph (1903-72). American sculptor, one of the pioneers and most celebrated exponents of assemblage.

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He had no formal training in art and his most characteristic works are his highly distinctive `boxes'. These are simple boxes, usually glass-fronted, in which he arranged surprising collections of photographs or Victorian bric-à-brac in a way that has been said to combine the formal austerity of Constructivism with the lively fantasy of Surrealism. Like Kurt Schwitters he could create poetry from the commonplace. Unlike Schwitters, however, he was fascinated not by refuse, garbage, and the discarded, but by fragments of once beautiful and precious objects, relying on the Surrealist technique of irrational juxtaposition and on the evocation of nostalgia for his appeal (he befriended several members of the Surrealist movement who settled in the USA during the Second World War). Cornell also painted and made Surrealist films.

Assemblage (A san blazh`)

1.A sculptural technique or organizing or composing into a unified whole a group of unrelated objects, fragmentary or discarded objects. 2. a work of art produced by this technique.
Collage and Assemblage art covers a wide gamut from modern art to pop art to abstract art, it can show up in mail art, avant garde art, constructivist art and often is the preferred medium of the revolutionary artist through the juxtaposition of elements to create a jarring or shocking effect.

Pinky

The History of Pinky the Watering Troll

She was rescued from a flea market in Princeton, New Jersey in July 2005. Her hair was a mess and her dress was wrinkled....and there was nothing to water. So I made her a place where the flowers never die, and there is always a mother's eye to watch over her. Her hair is combed and styled and she digs her slick black frame, of course, I included a helping hand if she ever needs one. Now she is just hanging and happy like a troll should be.