( My favorite of the Rockwell Santa images I posted above: )
Batwomanamy said:
Believe it or not, Norman Rockwell didn't have that happy life he always depicted.
Yes, that's true, Amy. Rockwell lived in a really rough neighborhood, had a less than ideal family life, and as you say, had a pretty ugly childhood. Rockwell tried in his art to invoke an idyllic America, as he had
wanted his growing up years to have been, rather than as they truly were.
I once had a French girlfriend I showed Rockwell's work to, and I commented that I loved Rockwell's work because it captures the warmth in American people, the best in American people.
She remarked that the people in the pictures looked French to her, that they could just as easily be French, and that she felt they captured the kindness, the best, in
all people.
