Planning Our E.B. White Box
6 11 2009Today we looked at the wonderful art of Joseph Cornell. Cornell was born in New York, in the early 1900s. Inspired by both nature and the city, Cornell crafted beautiful “boxes” throughout his life. Detailed and carefully planned, his intricate boxes have now become world-renowned pieces of art. Many themes and objects show up in his work, such as birds, astronomy, theatre, ballet, film, etc. Following in this great artist’s footsteps, the students of Vogelsang House are going to create boxes of their own! Our themes for our boxes will be borrowed from the works of E.B. White, such as love/friendship, life/death, rescue/adventure, change, being small but mighty, etc. We will spend the following days collecting small objects that help communicate this theme, and will carefully design and create a box of our own! Click below for a short slide show on Joseph Cornell’s work, which we annotated in class.
Click here for a PDF slide show of Cornell’s annotated work
