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Sculpture I – Assemblage Artist: Joseph Cornell was a collector and carefully juxtaposing found objects in small, glass-front boxes, Cornell created visual poems in which surface, form, texture, and light play together. Using things we can see, Cornell made boxes about things we cannot see: ideas, memories, fantasies, and dreams. http://www.josephcornellbox.com/gallery_menu01.htm

Learning Targets: Sculpture

 I understand how color can change a sculpture.  I know there are many types of sculptures.  I know that there is a wide variety of materials used in sculpture.  I know how to implement the elements and principles of design into my Sculpture  I know how create an sculpture with assemblage of recyclables  I can create 3•D sculpture from cardboard, using paper construction methods such as scoring, mitering edges.  I know how to work with paper construction techniques and Mache; learn about grain, bending, cutting, scoring, and quality of different types of paper.  I know and understand the work of artist Joseph Cornell  .

Standards

 A: Skills and Techniques: The student understands and applies media, techniques and processes

 B: Creation and Communication: the student creates and communicates a range of subject matter, symbols and ideas using knowledge of structures and functions of visual arts.

 C: Cultural and Historical Connections: The student understands the visual arts in relation to history and culture.

 D: Aesthetic and Critical Analysis: The student assesses, evaluates and responds to the characteristics of works of art.

 E: Applications to Life: the student makes connections between the visual arts, other disciplines and the real world.

Assessment:

Design Considerations:

o Outside Design, Color, Pattern, etc. What your completed cabinet looks like on the outside must be different from the inside. You can paint, stencil, draw, stamp, carve, and college the outside of the cabinet. Think about adding to/extending top of the box.

o You can add items to the surface of the box on the sides, doors, and top. Remember to consider the weight and balance and how added items will contribute to stability.

o Inside: The inside of the box should be personal and meaningful to you. This is not just a useful box or cabinet, this is being created as a work of art. Use the inside of this box to make a personal, political or other such artistically intriguing message. Everyone will be expected to view the web sites listed on the back of this page.

o Legs or No Legs: This is a design decision you must make. You will need to decide this before you actually build the cabinet. If there are legs- what shape, and size? Think about stability. You will be expected to design this box on paper before you begin.

1) In the space below list some of the ideas you liked from the sites you visited.

2) From these ideas, make another list of themes, messages, or personal statements that will be used inside your cabinet.

3) Generate a third list of items you will need to complete the inside of your box.

4) Using the thumbnail paper- begin designing the outside of the cabinet.

Day 1: Introduction to assemblage and Ofrenda. Chose between an assemblage and or a Ofrenda. Demo on construction ideas.

Day 2: Go to the media center and research ideas and write artist statement about your piece.

Day 3: Bring in items for your assemblage and begin.

Day 4-6: Work time

Day 7 Critique. Upload only the assemblage that relate to joseph cornell site. http://www.josephcornellbox.com/gallery_menu01.htm

EVERYONE will be expected to view the following sites for ideas: • http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/cornell/ • http://www.wa-digital.com/LeoKaplan/index.html • http://www.josephcornellbox.com/ • http://members.aol.com/mindwebart2/Cornellcover.htm (Archive) • http://www.the-artists.org/ArtistView.cfm • http://www.udayton.edu/mary/gallery/exhibits/luckett.html • http://www.artchive.com/artchive/C/cornell.html • http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_works_32_0.html • http://altpick.com/spot/binkley/index.php • http://www.casacorazon.com/jesus_sosa_calvo2.html (Archive). Also see Jesus Sosa Calvo's Facebook page. You have to be his friend to view his art work. • http://www.artisticrevolutions.com/AR_gallery_artboxes.html • http://www.artsmia.org/UserFiles/File/userfiles/education-and- resources/OfrendaGuide_links_rev1_v3-1.pdf •

Suggested artist and art history Artists primarily known for assemblage

Johann Dieter Wassmann (Jeff Wassmann), Vorwarts! (Go Forward!), 1897 (2003). • Arman (1928–2007), French artist, sculptor and painter. • Hans Bellmer (1902–1975), a German artist known for his life-sized female dolls, produced in the 1930s. • Wallace Berman (1926–1976), an American artist known for his verifax collages. • André Breton (1896–1966), a French artist, regarded as a principal founder of Surrealism. • John Chamberlain (1927-2011), a Chicago artist known for his sculptures of welded pieces of wrecked automobiles. • Greg Colson (born 1956), an American artist known for his wall sculptures of stick maps, constructed paintings, solar systems, directionals, and intersections. • Joseph Cornell (1903–1972). Cornell, who lived in New York City, is known for his delicate boxes, usually glass-fronted, in which he arranged surprising collections of objects, images of renaissance paintings and old photographs. Many of his boxes, such as the famous Medici Slot Machine boxes, are interactive and are meant to be handled. • Rosalie Gascoigne (1917–1999), a New Zealand sculptor. • Raoul Hausmann (1886–1971), an Austrian artist and writer and a key figure in Berlin Dada, his most famous work is the assemblage Der Geist Unserer Zeit - Mechanischer Kopf (Mechanical Head [The Spirit of Our Age]), c. 1920. • Romauald Hazoumé (born 1962), a contemporary artist from the Republic of Bénin, who exhibits widely in Europe and the U.K. • Robert H. Hudson (born 1938), an American artist. • Edward Kienholz (1927–1994), an American artist who collaborated with his wife, Nancy Reddin Kienholz, creating free-standing, large-scale "tableaux" or scenes of modern life such as the Beanery, complete with models of persons, made of discarded objects. • Jean-Jacques Lebel (born 1936), in 1994 installed a large assemblage entitled Monument à Félix Guattari in the Forum of the Centre Pompidou. • Janice Lowry (1946-2009), American artist known for biographical art in the form of assemblage, artist books, and journals, which combined found objects and materials with writings and sketches. • Ondrej Mares (1949–2008), a Czech-Australian artist and sculptor best known for his 'Kachina' figures - a series of works. • Louise Nevelson (1899–1988), an American artist, known for her abstract expressionist “boxes” grouped together to form a new creation. She used found objects or everyday discarded things in her “assemblages” or assemblies, one of which was three stories high. • Susan O'Doherty (born 1960), an Australian painter and assemblage artist. • Minoru Ohira (born 1950), a Japanese-born artist. • Meret Oppenheim (1913–1985), a German-born Swiss artist, identified with the Surrealist movement. • Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008), painter and collagist known for his mixed media works during six decades. • Betye Saar (born 1926), American visual artist primarily known for her assemblages with family memorabilia, stereotyped African American figures from folk culture and advertising, mystical amulets and charms, and ritual and tribal objects. • Fred H. Roster (born 1944), an American sculptor. • Daniel Spoerri (born 1930), a Swiss artist, known for his "snare pictures" in which he captures a group of objects, such as the remains of meals eaten by individuals, including the plates, silverware and glasses, all of which are fixed to the table or board, which is then displayed on a wall. • Vladimir Tatlin (1885–1953), a Russian artist known for his counter- reliefs — structures made of wood and iron for hanging in wall corners in the 1910s. • Rebeca Trevino (born 1951), an American artist best known for creating wall and table top sculptures using vintage maps, papers and magazine images to collage inside and outside of the box or frame. The works are delicate and surprising. Many of her boxes are interactive and are meant to be handled. • Wolf Vostell (1932–1998), known for his use of concrete in his work. In his environments video installations and paintings he used television sets and concrete as well as telephones real cars and pieces of cars. • Jeff Wassmann (born 1958), an American-born contemporary artist who works in Australia under the nom de plume of the pioneering German modernist Johann Dieter Wassmann (1841–1898).