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  • WaPo Art Critic Slams Norman Rockwell as Lacking 'Courage'

    07/05/2010 6:05:27 PM PDT · by PJ-Comix · 117 replies · 5+ views
    NewsBusters ^ | July 5, 2010 | P.J. Gladnick
    Artist Norman Rockwell's thought crime seems to be that he wasn't a kneejerk liberal. And for that, he has earned an angry leftwing rant from Washington Post art critic Blake Gopnik who claimed that Rockwell lacked "courage" for not glorifying leftwing causes. Rockwell's "Four Freedoms" series? It disgusts Gopnik because it "doesn't invoke a communist printing his pamphlets or an atheist on a soapbox." So if Gopnik can't stand the popular Norman Rockwell, just what kind of art does he like? You can find out below the fold but a warning: please be sure you are not consuming liquids while...