American Rockwell Distinctively Visual

“Without thinking too much about it in specific terms, I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed. My fundamental purpose is to interpret the typical American. I am a story teller." –Norman Rockwell
Norman Rockwell was the man behind the remarkable visual illustration of day-to-day life in America during 20th century. At early age, he enjoyed making drawings ironically to a typical teenage New York boy. Rockwell began wearing corrective shoes at the age of ten and eye glasses at twelve the reason why he was not active in sports or any type of physical activity. Summer time in the country away from the city was his inspiration to his early works of art. He began taking classes at the Chase School of Fine and Applied Art. With his extreme passion in drawing, he left high school during his sophomore year and enrolled full time at the National Academy School later then transferred to the Art Students League …show more content…
For him these works were never a work of art. But then, for twenty three years he did all of his painting and drawing with models and posed them as he wanted them in his picture. The process he had in painting that made his work effective and meaningful was having an idea and sketches them in pencil with the selected photographs of the scene. As he paints, his creative mind and free hand will make many changes from the photograph and make it as what exactly he had in his mind. His style and ideas was recognized not just in America but also internationally. Rockwell’s paintings captured the eyes and won the heart of people by being realistic and portraying the typical daily life of a citizen in United States during World War II. Through his works, the history of America was expressed visually