The sweetness and bitterness are flowing under his brushes. In his paintings, we can feel the vibe for different festivals and the happy moments when the family reunited. All of these paintings are in a romantic or warm color, everyone will be immersed in a peaceful mood when they look at these paintings. Also, he did not paint some grand views but painted some small things around his daily life. His models even from his neighbor and family members might be a reason why his painting is so popular in our normal lives. In his paintings, we all can act naive and childish like kids under his painted dreams. Some little girls and boys have various facial expressions, they interact with adults exactly like how do we interact with our parents.
However, his painting also likes a timeline to mark the development of the United States. From barefoot boys in the summer heat to astronauts on the moon; from lazy small-town storefronts to skyscraper offices; from colorful fairy tales books to the television screens. His works cover the two world wars, the Cold War and the economic depression, and racial problems in the United States.
All his paintings are like a mirror to reflect the important time and event, different age groups and different kinds of people all can find their interests and commonality in his paintings.
Hyperreality comes to the best reflected in his paintings like some people cannot realize they are looking at a painting rather than living. I remembered a painting named Freedom from Want is painted during World War II. The setting should be gloomy even sad because a lot of people suffered from hunger issues and worry about their safety. However, his painting has a huge turkey and all family members are staring at that turkey in a smily face. Family, love, and safety are all represented in his painting, it is hard to think about the condition we were suffering.
"Without thinking too much about it in specific terms, I was showing America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed.--Norman Rockwell. "
Easy living, easy painting, and easy thinking!
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