Joseph Cornell Joseph Cornell was an American artist and also a film maker. He worked with assemblage. He mainly worked using boxes for assemblage pieces and I realized he seems to go for a vintage look and also uses birds a lot. I really like the birds and in a few of his pieces he uses maps as a background. I really like his work and it reminds me of my family's house in main because there a lot of old things in the house and it just gives a calm feeling. When it comes to principles and elements of art, I definitely see texture, color, form, variety, and space. Again, I really enjoy the colors he mainly uses which seem to be gold, a dark blue, white, and brown. There are a variety of things he uses in these sculptures like the key, birds are a repeating thing I noticed, maps, and wood or having a texture that looks like wood. Below are 5 of his works: