People Are Strange
Norman Rockwell's Paintings.
My son requested, because they are his favorite.
He loves that they are snapshots of real people.
Norman Rockwell painted thousands of paintings,321 Covers for the
Saturday Evening Post over 47 years.
My son said that the Paintings remind him of the Christmas Story movie-
I think he is on to something.
I know that Rockwell painted the people he saw everyday, real faces of
Stockbridge Massachusetts....
He painted US...The People.
( and sadly he painted Presidents, see if you can find any in this slide show.)
2 comments:
He was an artist of the people. He was such an institution of those old Saturday Evening Posts. I've always been quite taken with his powerful depiction of that rosie-the-riveter gal, the one with the pumped arms. I believe it was controversial at the time. People thought real women should not look so physically strong. During WWII a lot of women discovered they could do what had previously been men's work. Too bad when the war ended, they were expected to return to the little lady role.
Thanks for this. So, who's doing Rockwell type stuff today? ~~ D.K.
i just Googled up "We The People" "Norman Rockwell" and this site was one of Google's returns... Hi. I appreciated your post here, and your profile as well.
I'm an artists with much up on the web but Norman Rockwell seemed called for to illustrate a link on a current project by historian Howard Zinn I'd wanted to promote, Dramatic Voices Of Dissent, a 4 part TV series.
No one publishes artists like Rockwell any more for a number of reasons, sadly, and that is why no one paints/illustates in such a fashion any more, leaving Rockwell and his work icons... Ironic icons these days when Big Brother views and treats the populace with contempt and disdain while adorning itself with Rockwell-like populist culture and nolstalgia... And yes, we all could vent a good long while... Let us then ourselves drink of this old golden time for comfort and solace and assuage our outrage overload...
I hope we all keep talking indeed.
John Farwell
Oklahoma City, OK
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