Résultats Google Recherche d'images correspondant à. Histoire des Arts au collège. Norman Rockwell. Norman Rockwell was born in New York City on 3rd February, 1894. According to his biographer, Karal Ann Marling: "The young Norman was skinny and clumsy at sports. He feared the rough neighbourhoods near his family's home on the Upper West Side. Coddled by his mother, Nancy, who boasted of her English heritage and artistic forbears, he also came to resent her imaginary illnesses and spates of religious fervor.
" Norman's father, Waring Rockwell, worked in the textile industry. He was also an amateur artist and spent time with his son copying illustrations out of magazines. Waring also read to his family the novels of Charles Dickens. While he read, Norman drew the characters from the novels. In 1907 the family moved to Mamaroneck, a small settlement on the Long Island Sound. Rockwell found the teaching at the academy very conventional and in 1910 he joined the Art Students League. His main teacher was Thomas Fogarty. Rockwell used one boy, Billy Paine, to pose for all three characters. Norman Rockwell - About Norman Rockwell | American Masters. Picture a nation of patriotic citizens unencumbered by want or fear, free to speak their minds and worship as they chose.
In a simple room, generations gather for a bountiful Thanksgiving feast. In a dimly lit bedroom, a mother and father tuck their child safely into bed. At a town meeting, a man stands tall and proud among his neighbors. In a crowd, every head is bent in fervent prayer. This is Norman Rockwell’s America as depicted in his famous “Four Freedoms” series. Norman Rockwell thought of himself first and foremost a commercial illustrator. Born in New York in 1894, Rockwell had early hopes of becoming an artist. In 1942, Rockwell painted one of his most overtly political and important pieces. In the 1960s, prompted by his third wife, new markets, and by the times, Rockwell began to exhibit a strong sense of social consciousness.
Today, more than twenty years after his death in 1978, Norman Rockwell’s star is once again rising. Norman Rockwell and the Civil Rights Paintings | Everyday Citizen. Fifty years after he first started doing work for the magazine, Norman Rockwell was tired of doing the same sweet views of America for the Saturday Evening Post in the early 1960s. The great illustrator was increasingly influenced by his close friends and loved ones to look at some of the problems that was afflicting American society. Rockwell had formed close friendships with Erik Erickson and Robert Coles, psychiatrists specializing in the treatment of children and both were advocates of the civil rights movement. His most profound influence was his third wife, Mary L. “Molly” Punderson, who was an ardent liberal and who urged him in new directions. On December 14, 1963, Rockwell did his last cover for the Saturday Evening Post and he began working for Look magazine.
Look magazine finally gave Norman Rockwell the opportunity to express his social concerns. Rockwell’s first painting was The Problem We All Live With, one of his greatest paintings. Family-guide.pdf (Objet application/pdf) Norman Rockwell's life... in pictures - anglais.