The
New-York Historical Society is currently hosting a "Four Freedoms"
Norman Rockwell exhibit.
It's
running until September 2 so there is still time to catch it,
and I recommend that you do.
It's
so odd to see images that I am so familiar with from photos in their original form
- oils on canvas.
His
work is so incredibly detailed.
They
had a couple of alternative versions of Freedom of Speech on display. This one is from The Met, where strangely I have
never seen it on display.
You
can see that in the final version he simplified the background to increase the
focus on the speaker - a wise decision.
Toward
the end of his career he left the frothy images of his Saturday Evening Post
covers behind
and
moved to Look magazine where he focused on illustrations for articles about
more important topics like civil rights.
I have
never seen this image - "Murder in Mississippi" before. Can you imagine anything that looks less like
a Norman Rockwell painting?
Cheers!
PJ
(c)
2018 PJ Lehrer
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