The realistism of Norman Rockwell
For six decades, through two World Wars, the Great Depression, unprecedented national prosperity and radical social change, Norman Rockwell held a mirror up to America and reflected its identity through his illustrations. The images that Rockwell produced are very realistic, sometimes he also creates settings and suggests situations for the people in his paintings based on photographs. (examples shown in Image 6&7)
“There were details, accidents of light, which I’d missed when I’d been able to make only quick sketches of setting...A photograph catches all that.” Norman Rockwell once said.
Rockwell’s creation did not only rely on his imagination, he used photography to help himself realize his vision. Rockwell
For six decades, through two World Wars, the Great Depression, unprecedented national prosperity and radical social change, Norman Rockwell held a mirror up to America and reflected its identity through his illustrations. The images that Rockwell produced are very realistic, sometimes he also creates settings and suggests situations for the people in his paintings based on photographs. (examples shown in Image 6&7)
“There were details, accidents of light, which I’d missed when I’d been able to make only quick sketches of setting...A photograph catches all that.” Norman Rockwell once said.
Rockwell’s creation did not only rely on his imagination, he used photography to help himself realize his vision. Rockwell