His most famous build (Medici slot machine) is Joseph Cornell

American painter and sculptor Joseph Cornell (1903-72) was primarily a collector of souvenirs, vintage prints, photographs, musical works, theatrical memorabilia and French literature, which by 1936 had established the signature style of his poetic collection with these collections. Having lost his father at the age of 14, he moved with his mother and three brothers and sisters to the Queens area of ​​New York. His character worked with boxes that he formed from wood (for example, “Medici Games Machine”), glass, and countless objects and photographs. Joseph collected his materials from New York's antique and used stores, which helped him convey a prosaic and delightful sense of his art.

Cornell's miniature wooden boxes, carefully filled with various objects, were heavily covered with glass, displacing the three-dimensional view. Selected carefully, these objects did not contain inherent value alone, but when they were combined together, they were disclosed with a deaf connotation. His inappropriate and unique juxtapositions were elegiac, intimate with surrealist hits such as mystery, fantasy, subconsciousness, dreams, etc. Joseph chose subjects such as Hollywood stars, astrology, birds, ballet, opera, travel, Renaissance medicine , artists, poetry (Emily Dickinson) and space. His materials also included newspaper clippings, butterfly wings, marble and fragments of wallpaper, souvenirs and memorabilia, sky diagrams, old advertisements, broken dishes, music boxes, feathers, metal springs, maps, shells, mirrors and plastic ice cubes, “ Medici Slot Machine "- one of the first boxes that Cornell used in his basement workshop.

Medici Slot Machine is a dream show based on the youth of Renaissance. Prince Pierrot de Medici from Florence. It combines the mysterious world of a prince with a modern vending machine. He added many minute portraits on the sides that look like clips from the film, some of which are the same young man in the portrait. Joseph also inserted a grid of wires over the images, which looks like the appearance of the window panels. Near the base there is a glass shelf, below which there are small window openings with toys in them, and a compass is displayed at the middle point. The original painting is in the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland.

Initiated in the early 1940s, this square is juxtaposed to Renaissance & and Rococo portraits of children with sorted elements selected from boards for boards and slot machines. The Medici slot machines had moving parts, such as marble, that slide back and forth in the base compartment. Cornell expected his Medici Slot Machine to ask the viewer to play it. So far, instead of being a game, this incomprehensible box instead represents a complex psychological complexity. Cornell's choice of objects was an indisputable personal touch, and his work triggered the mood of a nostalgic trance in his audience.

Recluse in real life, the creator of the Medici game machine, Joseph Cornell used his art to get away from his family, barren suburban life and his own emotional demons. By giving exact order to his art, he compensated for the distress of his personal life. Cornell continued to live in a house in Queens until his death in 1972. Throughout his fruitful career, Cornell skillfully positioned the rudiments of his personal history in every corner of his boxes. Today, even after nearly 37 years of his demise, Cornell is the acknowledged master of prefab art.