DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Exhibit: Joseph Cornell:
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- CORN_191215_01.JPG: Joseph Cornell
- CORN_191215_04.JPG: Soap Bubble Set, 1949-50
Joseph Cornell
Soap Bubble Set offers a theatrical glimpse into the cosmos. Situated on Earth, the viewer observes the mountains and valleys of the moon, first discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610. The glasses, holding specimens of land and sea, embody the gravitational pull of the earth, perhaps in relation to the lunar influence on tides. The freely moving sphere rolls between the opposing forces while cutouts of shells, stars, and other references to the natural world float above. Following Edwin Hubble's confirmation of the rapidly expanding universe in 1929, the metaphor of a swelling soap bubble proliferated in the popular press. For Cornell, who had a long-standing interest in astronomy and stayed abreast of breaking news, this metaphor would have resonated with his own memories of blowing bubbles with clay pipes as a child and the wonder of their creation. Cornell's series of Soap Bubble Sets, sometimes called planetariums, is a decade-long rumination on the great astronomers of the past and the contemporary discoveries and innovations in space technology.
- CORN_191215_13.JPG: Americana: Natural Philosophy (What Makes the Weather?), ca 1959
Joseph Cornell
Americana: Natural Philosophy (What Makes the Weather?) is one variant in a series of collages featuring the young boy in John Singleton Copley's 1771 painting, Daniel Crommelin Verplanck. Joseph Cornell takes the boy out of his home environment and transposes him into a Western landscape, with the natural wonders of the American frontier just over his shoulder. Cornell considered Copley to be one of the first "American artists who worked out their own style of seeing." While paying homage to a great artist of the past, Cornell brings weight to the collage by juxtaposing Copley's boy and the glowing landscape with cutouts from children's books that illustrate scientific phenomena like rainbows and circumpolar constellations. The collage is a merger of Cornell's fantasy and reality, and a contemporary response to the technological advancements and exciting discoveries of the Space Age.
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