Accordion art & accordion in art

[Gatorcheesehead]

A couple questions that I was thinking about the other day while I was driving cross country...

1. Does anyone know of anyone that has taken used accordion parts or old accordions created art out of them?

2. Does anyone know artists who incorporate accordion in art? (paintings, sketches, and the sort)

 

[Gatorcheesehead]

Sorry...I just saw these similar postings:

Accordion Art

Sorry I don't know how to link photos to forum but perhaps those clever enough could start adding links to artworks Seeing Picasso's cubism painting The Accordionist prompted this thread Thank you

www.accordionists.info

 

[Walker]

Well... I suppose over the years a number of great artists have taken accordion parts and made great masterpieces with them. A few names that spring to mind are Mariano Dallape, Silvio Scandalli and Giovanni Gola.

 

[AccordionUprising]

These folks make "accordion books" out of antique accordions by slicing up the bellows in alternating edges. If you can get over cutting up accordions it's a clever design. If you can't it's hard to divorce yourself from the act of destruction. They use unplayable accordions, but still, I like the feeling of unplayable but intact antiques.
Peter and Donna Thomas's "Real Accordion Books"

Less distressing, there is a limited-edition ridiculously expensive record up on Bandcamp where the packaging is a hand-made CD case encrusted with used accordion parts encased in clear epoxy resin. That one is kind of cool. The record is very avant-garde sound art collection I rather like and we've played on Accordion Noir Radio's three-hour-long drone-accordion specials. I just have the affordable download (if they didn't send us a radio freebie, and sadly not the collectable art-piece, though that fold-out looks way more tempting than the desecration of the antique accordion books.
The Accordion Sessions

 

[Moggy]

A couple questions that I was thinking about the other day while I was driving cross country...

1. Does anyone know of anyone that has taken used accordion parts or old accordions created art out of them?

2. Does anyone know artists who incorporate accordion in art? (paintings, sketches, and the sort)

I went to art school and a classmate did an art performance project with an accordion, or tried to. He connected the bellows to a rubber dingy pump and as he played it inflated the rubber dingy, The problem with the design was it took about an hour to Inflate it. It seemed more like a comedy sketch to me when he did it but he insisted it was art.

 

[Gatorcheesehead]

I went to art school and a classmate did an art performance project with an accordion, or tried to. He connected the bellows to a rubber dingy pump and as he played it inflated the rubber dingy, The problem with the design was it took about an hour to Inflate it. It seemed more like a comedy sketch to me when he did it but he insisted it was art.

Very interesting. Sounds like a sight to see

 

[Tom]

As far as art goes, to answer the original question, I continue to "paint" "watercolor" pictures of accordionists, seeing how natural I can get the images, using AI. As, I have posted before, progress seems very rapid.