Posted on 10/29/2009 1:34:25 PM PDT by Daffynition
That looks like Tom Selleck.
Ooogedy-boogedy! You do realize Rockwell included blacks in his portraits too right?
Fritz wasn’t counterculture in the early 1960s. But the character morphes as Robert grew older. And eventually he killed the character off when the movie got made without his control.
That was the picture I was thinking of when someone mentioned ghettos. He also painted the picture of the little black girl on her way to school, with the tomatoes being thrown..I love his paintings..
I love the movie. I think every teenage wannabe hippie should be required to watch it and should be quizzed on it. It’s a very good demythologizing of the 60s counterculture. Gritty and cynical.
On October 10, 1980, Mark David Chapman sold his beloved lithograph of Norman Rockwell’s Triple Self-Portrait to a Hawaiian public relations man for $7500. Chapman, who was strapped for cash, used the proceeds to quit his job, purchase a .38 revolver, buy airfare to New York and book a room at the Waldorf Astoria. From this base of operations he would stalk John Lennon at the Dakota and finally, in December, take his life.
Weird.
You can't do that! LOL
Academy Award-winning director and producer Steven Spielberg has turned over to federal authorities Russian Schoolroom, a 1967 oil on canvas by Norman Rockwell that was filched from a Clayton art gallery in 1973, according to the FBI. No charges have been filed in the case, and federal officials say they have no evidence that Spielberg knew the painting had been stolen when he purchased it in 1989.
Thanks for the ping. I knew that Normal Rockwell painted from photographs of real people, but I didn’t know his paintings were composed from many different photographs.
WOW. Caveat emptor.
I’m with you!
My mother was an artist and LOVED rockwells paintings(she grew up on his stuff on the front of the post.
His idea of what America was is exactly what my america was when i was growing up! small town america was still wholesome just a few years ago!
I can relate to just about every painting he ever did.
when I die...i hope heaven is like a norman rockwell painting.
Um, what does that have to do with anything? My vision of an ideal America is not predicated on the absence of black people. That is stupid and racist, and I don't quite get your point.
Just because you can never attain the ideal does not mean you should not strive for it. That mentality is one of failure and frankly, France. An attitude like yours is not one that made America great, but rather hurtles us head first towards mediocrity.
"... And would you like to elaborate on this ‘Civil War’ that you so hastily glorify?.."
There is nothing hasty about it, FRiend. It is well thought out and was once a worst-case scenario. Sadly, it looks more and more like our only option as time passes. With our Constitution being trampled daily by a foreign President, our values rendered moot or worse across the land at an increasing rate (see the war on Christmas, for example), And the characteristics that made our nation great being dragged through the gutter or destroyed outright, the question is not about the "Civil War I so hastily glorify" but rather the bubble you occupy that makes all that stuff invisible to you.
If you can't see what's coming down the pike, I can't help you, as it is wholly apparent to me and millions of other Americans.
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