27 ઑગસ્ટ, 2018

Do we need another Norman Rockwell?

If we do, this guy's in the running: "Artist Illustrates His Sweet Childhood Memories, And The Results Are Heartwarming" (Bored Panda).

53 ટિપ્પણીઓ:

mccullough કહ્યું...

Make America Great Again is starting to take hold.

Henry કહ્યું...

It's a Disney movie without the dramatic parts.

Amexpat કહ્યું...

Not in the same league as NR. Looks like shots from an animated movie.

Henry કહ્યું...

Snow White and her Very Nice Dad

Henry કહ્યું...

Beauty and the Best Friend Ever

Henry કહ્યું...

Alice in Farmland

Virgil Hilts કહ્યું...

Not sure if within subject but loved this architect's mashup of Kinkade paintings with great american modern houses. https://twitter.com/robyniko/status/1031000496608292872?s=21

gahrie કહ્યું...

I like them.

rhhardin કહ્યું...

Somebody's been to Japan.

Bay Area Guy કહ્યું...

The sentiment is good, but the pictures do seem a little Disney-Cartoonish for my taste.

Love Rockwell, and love the sentiment, though.

PM કહ્યું...

Dreck.

Saint Croix કહ્યું...

It's nice but it's not Rockwell, who was way more rambunctious, also funnier, and a bit more cynical.

Rob કહ્યું...

Rockwell isn't entirely to my taste, but he could paint circles around this guy.

Henry કહ્યું...

@Virgil Hilts -- That's fun stuff. It's almost too well done and the modernist houses too lovely to be a parody.

Jersey Fled કહ્યું...

Father's - What a novel concept.

Michael Fitzgerald કહ્યું...

Yes, America needs another Rockwell. More importantly, America needs a populace that would love Norman Rockwell.

Michael K કહ્યું...

Rockwell was a real artist, a bit like Wyeth. Not a cartoonist.

Fernandinande કહ્યું...

Heartwarming

"Wanna watch 'Sweet Childhood Memories'?"

"I heard it was heartwarming."

"Oh. What else is on?"

The Crack Emcee કહ્યું...

Not even. But he's got a job waiting for him at Pixar.

Jaq કહ્યું...

See Normal Rockwell paintings in person, then get back to me.

Howard કહ્યું...

puke.

Freeman Hunt કહ્યું...

"Not even. But he's got a job waiting for him at Pixar."

My thoughts exactly. Guy would make an excellent animator.

Eleanor કહ્યું...

Rockwell's work had a high attention to detail. Each time you look at one of his Saturday Evening Post's covers you notice things you didn't see before. These illustrations are charming, but superficial. Maybe a sign of the times? The Rockwell Museum is a fun visit, btw.

Robert Cook કહ્યું...

Sentimental Disney-fied drivel.

Levi Starks કહ્યું...

It evokes pleasant emotions

William કહ્યું...

Definitely not Rockwell. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a disturbing back story behind this fixation with happy children.

Robert Cook કહ્યું...

"Rockwell was a real artist, a bit like Wyeth. Not a cartoonist."

Rockwell was an illustrator, a superior one. He and Wyeth are nothing alike except insofar as they were each technically highly accomplished and they each succeeded at what they were trying to do. I like both of them very much.

Robert Cook કહ્યું...

"Definitely not Rockwell. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a disturbing back story behind this fixation with happy children."

No, probably not. The artist is just pandering to an audience who will eat it up.

Henry કહ્યું...

Rockwell was an illustrator, a superior one. He and Wyeth are nothing alike except insofar as they were each technically highly accomplished and they each succeeded at what they were trying to do.

Rockwell was more like N.C. Wyeth than Andrew Wyeth.

Thought even there, Rockwell and N.C., you have a real stylistic difference.

Henry કહ્યું...

See Normal Rockwell paintings in person, then get back to me.

I've been the Rockwell museum in Stockbridge, MA. After a few rooms of Rockwell, it was a relief to duck into the museum's tiny exhibit of contemporaries. Rockwell is brilliant, but too much Rockwell in one space is like a hall of mirrors.

ambisinistral કહ્યું...

Geezus -- those paintings are ghastly.

CJ કહ્યું...

Even worse than I thought they were going to be.

bagoh20 કહ્યું...

It's certainly a modern take on the Rockwell idea, and by "modern" I mean diminished, shortcutted, easier, and derivative. Still, I like it, just nowhere near as much. It doesn't have a soul.

Tank કહ્યું...

Kinda creepy. Reminds me of Frozen. Mrs. Tank watched Frozen; Tank had to leave the room Yuuuch.

FullMoon કહ્યું...

Those pics are great. Artist apparently had a wonderful childhood., or wishes he did.

Rockwell dealt in good feelings. So does this guy.

Neither as good as Gary Larson, obviously.

rhhardin કહ્યું...

Who was the guy Lileks discovered long ago, who painted like Rockwell but always women with their panties falling down in everyday life.

rhhardin કહ્યું...

Art Frahm
https://www.lileks.com/institute/frahm/art1.html

BAS કહ્યું...

Those pictures are drawn on the computer, they don't have the texture that Norman Rockwell's paintings did. They are slick and smooth like a snapchat overlay or a composed instagram pictures.

I guess time goes on and everything changes.

Darrell કહ્યું...

When I worked in a grocery store in the 1960s, I always tried to get a head of celery in a pretty woman's shopping bag. Just in case.

Robert Cook કહ્યું...

"Rockwell was more like N.C. Wyeth than Andrew Wyeth."

Yes. This may be partly because they were both illustrators. I think Rockwell admired N.C. Wyeth's work.

Robert Cook કહ્યું...

That guy Frahm paints nothing like Rockwell. His work is more more akin to the legions of lesser pulp magazine illustrators who were contemporaries of Rockwell.

Andrew કહ્યું...

I always thought that Rockwell's self-portrait (where he's drawing himself while looking in a mirror) was a work of genius.

I also like the one of a man looking at a Pollack-style painting. It showed that he could have been a modernist if he had chosen to.

Ann Althouse કહ્યું...

The similarity to Rockwell is in sentiment and in the level of realism depicting sentimental scenes of good people being good.

grackle કહ્યું...

Do we need another Norman Rockwell?

Yes, because an artist of Rockwell’s talent is always welcome in my world but the artist featured is no Norman Rockwell.

Bilwick કહ્યું...

He should only be so talented. Never really thought much one way or another about Rockwell's work, until I attended a museum show of his paintings. Seen as paintings rather than magazine illustrations, I found them very impressive.

pacwest કહ્યું...

There is no similarity to Rockwell in those pictures. None. They may have a feel good aspect, but they have no life in them. Imagine what a Rockwell depicting the three boys looking at their handheld would look like. Entirely different. The excitement of the boys, the focal of the artist, would be a just small aspect of what we could see in a Norman Rockwell painting.

Of course if Rockwell were painting today he probably wouldn't be Rockwell. The culture we live in wouldn't allow it.

Roy Lofquist કહ્યું...

If a picture is worth a thousand words then Rockwell was the Tolstoy of the easel.

* "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy, 499 pages.

Jaq કહ્યું...

There is a little museum in Hannibal, Missouri with the originals for his illustrations for Huckleberry Finn. Worth the trip, even if Becky Thatcher’s house isn’t.

Big Mike કહ્યું...

Yes we do, but he’s not it.

reader કહ્યું...

It seems a little too cartoonish, but I sure miss #3. So a little Rockwellian.

Assistant Village Idiot કહ્યું...

Rockwell changed (improved) over the years. He started as an illustrator, with two-dimensional characters. The paintings became more complicated and messaged over time. There was a Scandinavian school of painting that was old-style socialist, celebrating the life of the common man. Carl Larson is the only one remembered now, I think, and he is regarded as similarly sentimental. It isn't quite so, not with either of them. There is hopefulness and sentimentality, certainly, but it is in the context of realism and people with hard lives.

JMW Turner કહ્યું...

Carl Larson, yes. I have a couple of illustrated books acquired in the seventies. His style is definitely linear, using washes of color to define dimensionally, very much an illustration, yet controlled, he was an excellent draftsman. After you have seen the chronologically arranged drawings, the effect is of viewing;the children aging, his wife Karin also growing older, but maintaining her loveliness, such charming art that is no longer accepted in this sad, bullshit post modern world.

n.n કહ્યું...

Perhaps not. How about a Newman Rockford? Diversity.

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