[RepoGirl]

I've always had a soft spot for Rockwell, while he's considered quite schmaltzy, I've always liked the human element to his paintings. They're little snapshots into individual lives, from a time very different from ours.

They're quite refreshingly uncynical and ironic. And if most Po Mo artists could paint/draw this well, they would... and its making them eat their hearts out.

[AnAmericanMother]

It isn't really fair to judge Rockwell from his Saturday Evening Post covers or the advertisements he illustrated.

When you're working for a client you have to give them what they want. . . . and what the Post wanted was a certain amount of schmaltz.

A Rockwell exhibition toured Atlanta a number of years ago, and I've always liked the American realist painters, so off we went. It was a revelation! His easel paintings are brilliant - and seeing even the Post covers in the original oils is a different story. Rockwell had an excellent grasp of color, composition, and the technical details of painting. He also could pastiche the style of almost any period with ease.

Michaelangelo- the prophet Isaiah.

The Dutch Masters

. . . he even got in a shot at Pollock.

Just an illustrator. Right.