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Norman rockwell
Title: Norman rockwell
Category: Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 2152 | Pages: 9.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Norman rockwell
In his paintings, Norman Rockwell helped the war effort in many ways. He was used to painting America’s fighting men as boy scouts, now he saw soldiers as civilians in uniforms and war itself was everyone’s fight.
“I don’t like to do posters,” Rockwell said, “They’re all propaganda… I don’t like to do pictures which glorify killing in a good way.”(Gillis, 97) He began innocently with Willie Gillis, a quiet
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such as Peace Corps (John F. Kennedy’s Legacy), in which JFK appears. He also painted many pictures about space age and astronauts. “There was a change in the thought climate in America brought on by scientific advance, the atom bomb, two world wars, and Mr. Freud and psychology…. Now I am Wildly excited about painting contemporary subjects…. pictures about civil rights, astronauts, Peace Corps, and the poverty program. It is wonderful,” said Rockwell (NR, 48)
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