Norman Rockwell

Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) was an American painter and illustrator. His works have a expansive popular draw in the United States for their postscript of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday excitement he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine over approximately five decades. Among the best-known of Rockwell's works are the Willie Gillis series, Rosie the Riveter,
The Problem We All Live With, Saying Grace, and the Four Freedoms series. He is then noted for his 64-year link with the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), during which he produced covers for their publication Boys' Life, calendars, and extra illustrations. These works increase popular images that reflect the Scout Oath and Scout Law such as The Scoutmaster, A Scout is Reverent and A Guiding Hand, among many others.

Rockwell was a prolific artist, producing beyond 4,000 indigenous works in his lifetime. Most of his long-lasting works are in public collections. Rockwell was along with commissioned to illustrate higher than 40 books, including Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as competently as painting the portraits for Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon, as well as those of foreign figures, including Gamal Abdel Nasser and Jawaharlal Nehru. His portrait subjects included Judy Garland. One of his last portraits was of Colonel Sanders in 1973. His annual contributions for the Boy Scouts calendars between 1925 and 1976 (Rockwell was a 1939 recipient of the Silver Buffalo Award, the highest adult award unmovable by the Boy Scouts of America), were single-handedly slightly overshadowed by his most popular of directory works: the "Four Seasons" illustrations for Brown & Bigelow that were published for 17 years beginning in 1947 and reproduced in various styles and sizes previously 1964. He created artwork for advertisements for Coca-Cola, Jell-O, General Motors, Scott Tissue, and other companies. Illustrations for booklets, catalogs, posters (particularly movie promotions), sheet music, stamps, playing cards, and murals (including "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and "God Bless the Hills", which was completed in 1936 for the Nassau Inn in Princeton, New Jersey) rounded out Rockwell's œuvre as an illustrator.

Rockwell's play a role was dismissed by immense art critics in his lifetime. Many of his works appear overly delightful in the guidance of innovative critics, especially the Saturday Evening Post covers, which tend toward idealistic or sentimentalized portrayals of American life. This has led to the often deprecatory adjective "Rockwellesque". Consequently, Rockwell is not considered a "serious painter" by some contemporary artists, who regard his show as bourgeois and kitsch. Writer Vladimir Nabokov avowed that Rockwell's brilliant technique was put to "banal" use, and wrote in his novel Pnin: "That Dalí is really Norman Rockwell's twin brother kidnaped by gypsies in babyhood." He is called an "illustrator" instead of an artiste by some critics, a designation he did not mind, as that was what he called himself.

In his forward-looking years, however, Rockwell began receiving more attention as a painter subsequently he chose more deafening subjects such as the series on racism for Look magazine. One example of this more serious be in is The Problem We All Live With, which dealt taking into account the issue of moot racial integration. The painting depicts a juvenile black girl, Ruby Bridges, flanked by white federal marshals, walking to college past a wall defaced by racist graffiti. This 1964 painting was displayed in the White House taking into consideration Bridges met bearing in mind President Barack Obama in 2011.