Shout out to Francois Morel and Vincent Audoin who get name-checked by Wes Anderson when talking about his Paris installation, ‘The House on Utopia Parkway’.

https://youtu.be/SBKX2SXAp5s?si=y08-Hw8iMeewBNSL&t=314 (opens at the bit about the sign painters)

More on the installation:

https://gagosian.com/exhibitions/2025/the-house-on-utopia-parkway-joseph-cornells-studio-re-created-by-wes-anderson/

More about the sign painters:

- Francois: https://mo-signs.com
- Vincent: https://lettreurandgold.com

Thanks Nat (https://oasissignco.com) for the tip-off!

#SignPainting #WesAnderson #JosephCornell #Art #FieldNotes

#Bales2025FilmChallenge of December 18: a festive child

Children's Party (Joseph Cornell, c. 1938/1969)
Children of all ages are entertained by a menagerie of dancers, acrobats, talented fauna and bobbing apples in this exhilarating found-footage party.
Watch it here ☞ https://ubu.com/film/cornell_party.html
https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-26g9

#JosephCornell #children #party #ShortFilm #ExperimentalFilm #CollageFilm #FoundFootage #cinemastodon #film

"Cornell’s most characteristic art works were boxed assemblages created from found objects. These are simple shadow boxes, usually fronted with a glass pane, in which he arranged eclectic fragments of photographs or Victorian bric a brac, in a way that combines the formal austerity of Constructivism with the lively fantasy of Surrealism." #art #shadowbox #interactiveart #JosephCornell

https://milenaolesinska77.medium.com/mixed-media-art-joseph-cornell-fd2fa1f062e