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A. Discover Norman Rockwell
Norman Rockwell (February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) was an American author, painter and illustrator. His works are very famous in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Norman Rockwell was a prolific artist, producing more than 4,000 original works in his lifetime.
Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine over nearly 50 years. Among the best-known of Rockwell's works are the Willie Gillis series, Rosie the Riveter, The Problem We All Live With, Saying Grace, and the Four Freedoms series. Rockwell's work was dismissed by serious art critics in his lifetime. Many of his works appear too sweet in the opinion of modern critics, especially the Saturday Evening Post covers, which tend toward idealistic or sentimentalized portrayals of American life. This has led to the often-deprecatory adjective, "Rockwellesque". Consequently, Rockwell is not considered a "serious painter" by some contemporary artists, who regard his work as bourgeois and kitsch. In his later years, however, Rockwell began receiving more attention as a painter when he chose more serious subjects such as the series on racism for Look magazine. One example of this more serious work is The Problem We All Live With, which dealt with the issue of school racial integration. The painting depicts a young black girl, Ruby Bridges, flanked by white federal marshals, walking to school past a wall defaced by racist graffiti. |
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