Norman Rockwell's 'The Art Critic'

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The artist of The Art Critic, Norman Rockwell, depicts the human flaw of always focusing on the details and neglecting the rest of the picture. In this specific artwork, a young artist is studying a locket on a painting of a lady who seems surprised by his attention. There are three men as a painting on his right side looking as if they are jealous or concerned about what he is doing with the magnify glass. These are the few things that can be seen from the first glance of the painting. The artists seem so focused on examining on one spot of the portrait with his magnify glass he is oblivious of his surroundings. The facial expression of the painting on the wall shows the fact that he should look at things in a whole. Norman Rockwell portrayed

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