Thirty years ago the art snob groups were saying that Rockwell was not an artist, but just a lowly "illustrator".
Last week The painting shown here called "Breaking Home Ties", brought $15,416,000 at Christies.
Posted on 12/07/2006 4:15:46 AM PST by 7thson
Let's try one more time. Those depicted are RR, Bobby Kennedy, Nelson Rockefeller, Gene McCarthy and Hubert Humphrey.
Let's try one more time. Those depicted are RR, Bobby Kennedy, Nelson Rockefeller, Gene McCarthy, Hubert Humphrey and Nixon.
In our "Patriot's History of the United States," we dedicate at least a page to Norman Rockwell, calling him the greatest artist in U.S. history! That's quite a distance from the Andy Warhol types.
I love it. I can't thing of anything that would be more likely to tick off a lib art snob.
"Rockefeller Republican" was the term used before "RINO" came into vogue. Nelson Rockefeller was the "Type Specimen" for Rockefeller republicans...
Nancee
Thirty years ago the art snob groups were saying that Rockwell was not an artist, but just a lowly "illustrator".
Last week The painting shown here called "Breaking Home Ties", brought $15,416,000 at Christies.
I do not fault RR too much with some of the things that happened in his Presidency. I think he went into the job with one main goal - bring the Soviet Union to their knees. Which he succeeded in doing. I think that if someone of his type were President today the main goal would be to wipe out the Islamic Facists. I wonder if on 9/11, if he would have asked Congress to declare war instead of going the route W has gone.
I was watching an old Laugh-In episode from probably 1968 (give or take) and they did a bit on "News Of The Future" from they year 1986. It started "Today President Ronald Reagen..." at which point the crowd broke into outrageous laughter. I think of that crowd every time I see an episode of something like "Politically Correct" or "The Daily Show" and hear the cheers every time anything conservative is bashed and smile as I imagine how apopplectic they'll be when the things they mock come to pass and prosperity follows. Thanks for a great run, Mr President!
Funny story about Rockefeller, and this is what I remember him for:
I was broadcasting from the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo. Our studio was on the third floor of the broadcast center. On the right was the Mutual studio, on the left NBC and to the left of NBC, was CBS (this was all radio...ABC TV had most of the first and second floors, with CBC TV stuck in there somewhere).
The booths were not particulary roomy what with engineers and reporters for each contingent, so we had a make shift area in the lobby that we would sit around in and gab.
I kept staring at one of the women with the CBS group. We got to talking, and eventually we traded names. I recognized hers but I couldn't place it. She said, "it will come to you, eventually.
Well, I did. It was the gal who was making love to Rockefeller when he had a heart attack and died.
Stuff those critics were praising circa 1965, you likely couldn't giveaway now (unless it was for the frame.)
Yup. But she was older and chunkier in 1984. Still had the glasses. I have a candid, shot in the lobby. I'll have to dig it up.
I love that picture.
I love the military ones he did. Receiving care packages, coming home, peeling spuds with your mom - no matter what age or war, it never changes.
In many cases that is true. Abstract expressionism was all the rage. The originalists have held very well in the market. Their copyists have not been heard of in many years. All movements need a certain amount of uniqueness.
My favorite saying to folks who say: "my kid could do that" is, "sure now that he has seen it".
Memory can be faulty, but I believe the Dem pol whom you remember "breaking down into tears on the steps" in new Hampshire was Edmund Muskie, who at the time was a frontrunner for the nomination.
The major New Hampshire paper published an editorial that criticized his wife. His candidacy went down from there.
You're right. I guess McCarthy is not really noted for anything.
I guess McCarthy is not really noted for anything
Oh no, Clean Gene is noted for his opposition to the Vietnam war which contributed to the resignation of Lyndon Johnson and the subsequent fracturing of the Democratic party which led to their defeat in 1968.
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