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I mentioned briefly yesterday that I have been working on some various forms of photo art, that employ ideas of conceptual art that are influenced by Surrealists like Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, the Russian Constructivist art movement and even Joseph Cornell. It involves hand crafting and digital media. The common theme running through these various experiments is the Unconscious (as indeed it was for the early Surrealists).
The endpoint of this current approach will be the completion of a short film on C.G. Jung and his "Red Book" (I hope not too big to upload to Flickr). The Frenchman Duchamp, who was also a chess grandmaster, once said of his art, "I am interested in ideas. Not merely visual products."
So everything you see over the coming week or so will not be pretty or even beautiful. But I hope it unlocks some ideas and stimulates a relationship with your Unconscious.
So I won't be spending much time describing the actual works, I'll let you work them out. This one today is a nod to the work of Joseph Cornell, one of the truly unique artists of the 20th century who should be better known. So I've given you a few links to follow up on if you're interested.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/jul/25/joseph-corne...
"Dreams and Shadow: The Life and Works of Joseph Cornell"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=djzwMg3YF0c
A couple of examples of Joseph Cornell's experimental filmmaking (and forays into Surrealism):
"Rose Hobart" (1936)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQxtZlQlTDA
"Angel" (1957)
Ron DeSantis (aka DeSatan or Little Hitler) at the Florida State Capitol Building by KareAnn Art
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ArtPal
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Behance
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Clickasnap
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EyeEm
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We Must Pass Over In Silence
This is from my series of small mixed media art quilts. This primitive style quilt is made with beautiful aged doll's lace trimmed dress of vintage muslin that Iapplied to a felt batting using the shape of the dress. I then quilted the dress to the batting with my sewing machine. I further embellished with an old tarnished photo image of a very serious girl that I transferred to fabric canvas, and the above quote, also on a canvas piece.
I also added old safety pins and a tiny old turquoise token of "the speak no evil, see no evil say no evil" monkeys, and three very old buttons.
Have you had your V8 today?
How about a cup of highly caffeinated
Java Rat!
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dan jones ~ San Diego, Ca USA
Materials: Big frosted glass marble, clarinet keys, electric motor parts, perfume atomizer, green freshwater pearl, vintage brass lamp finial, rifle scope adjustment dial, clock key, vintage brass drawer pull, vintage fishing reel side plate, metal wings from the hobby shop tumbled in rock tumbler, small bearing, brass electric switch parts, glass beads, nuts, bolts, steam, and aether.
Note: The big marble is suspended with a loose connection under the head of the perfume atomizer allowing it to pivot and swing "to and fro", so I guess it's a bit kinetic.
Victorian bot
Materials: Wooden hat form, glass eye from antique deer mount, plastic human eye in melon ball maker, drawer pulls, Hair - Israeli brass bowel plus lamp parts, 50's dental kit replacement teeth, horse bit, dress form, two wooden right arms, grease and wood screws, steam, and aether.
The Dreamer by Dan Jones ~ Inspired by Peter Pan and Gustav Mesmer, also known as the “Icarus of the Lautertal”
Made of driftwood and recycled metal, this awesome work of art is part of the Public Art Walk series in the Napa Valley town of Yountville, California.
About a week after I added the dog, another unknown artist added the smaller dog and placed them in a house with a smoking chimney. I still can't figure out what they did to the end of the large stick. Use your imagination.
Frida Kahlo image, feather wings, multi layers of yarns and fibers, shell and handmade pieces by Laurie Dorrell
Made of driftwood and recycled metal, this awesome work of art is part of the Public Art Walk series in the Napa Valley town of Yountville, California.
I will zaaaap!* you with my blaster!
The slim stylings of the all new T-38 will make you the envy
of the galaxy! About 12 inches in length, I used a candle stick
holder, hacksaw handle and fancy lamp parts. Gotta love a
good blaster! A Tinkerbot Creation.
Prince Percolator and his Javawocky.
Created by Dan Jones
Found Object, Assemblage, Dieselpunk, Steampunk, Mixed Medium
I wanted to do something with a tuba for quite a while now. The museum exhibit this coming summer was a good opportunity to create a few big objects. Enter the tuba. I found a tuba from 1932 used in a local brassband. It was too worse for wear to play anymore and was sold as a decorative object. I instantly fell in love with the worn brass with dents and other signs of wear. I really struggled with it a while, it’s a pretty hard object to convert to a machine, but in the end I am very pleased with the outcome.
Dr. Abantius’ Tubaphonic Traveller is inspired by the comics Guust Flater (Gaston Lagaffe) by André Franquin. Details like the skull gearshifter and the negative cambered wheels refer to the rat rod scene.