Subject: I don't know, Keith.....
| Posted By: JeffG
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| Posted On: 8/3/2001 3:02 PM
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I have to disagree with your assessment of Rockwell being too sweet and polly-anna-ish. True, much of his work that lives on in reproductions does give one the warm-fuzzies. However, having grown up during the 1960's in a town that could have been lifted from any Rockwell calendar, his work wasn't as contrived as you might think... stuff like that did exist.
And lets not forget his work during the 1960's, which you'll never see on sale in frame shops. The civil rights series, tensions on the West Bank, Vietnam, environmental issues, hippie culture meets old America... he was addressing social issues that the "Fine Artists" of the day were ignoring. He did a painting of a lynching, for Pete's sake.
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