tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post7029142655845709679..comments2024-03-16T05:00:38.826-04:00Comments on Egnorance: Norman Rockwellmregnorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11431770851694587832noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-433447516949830082011-07-01T16:36:02.083-04:002011-07-01T16:36:02.083-04:00Funny that Anon,
I am not a Rockwell collector but...Funny that Anon,<br />I am not a Rockwell collector but a quick google came up with these images:<br /><br />http://gayleturner.net/Images/American-Apartheid-Education1sep05.jpg<br /><br />http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/album7/newkidsintheneighborhood1967.jpg<br /><br />I also came across this quote on the lack of politics / agenda on his part:<br /><b>Maybe as I grew up and found the world wasn’t the perfectly pleasant place I had thought it to be, I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn’t an ideal world, it should be and painted only the ideal aspects of it—pictures in which there were no drunken slatterns or self-centered mothers [Rockwell is alluding to his own mother here], in which, on the contrary, there were only Foxy Grandpas who played football with the kids, and boys fished from logs and got up circuses in the back yard. If there was sadness in this created world of mine, it was a pleasant sadness. If there were problems, they were humorous problems. The people in my pictures aren’t mentally ill [as Rockwell’s wife Mary was] or deformed. The situations they get into are commonplace, everyday situations, not the agonizing crises and tangles of life.</b><br /><br />Demystified? Works for me.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14739783974158130525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-40583108411168841272011-07-01T13:18:48.590-04:002011-07-01T13:18:48.590-04:00Strange isn't it, that Rockwell never painted ...Strange isn't it, that Rockwell never painted a black person (that I've seen), never used his art to protest the racial oppression enforced in his America by Christian organizations like the Ku Klux Klan?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com