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 guy who was caught in the first draft and eventually turned up on the cover of the Post as a G.I. with a food parcel and hungry friends. Before Willie had a chance to battle his way through hospitality, Rockwell's war got serious: Let's give him enough and on time (as seen in the picture on page one). (Illustrtor, 56) A friend of his, Colonel Fairfax Ayers, made arrangements to have a machine gun and crew driven to Rockwell's studio. This painting was to be an action picture with guns blazing, and at first Rockwell thought this a little distracting because everything was clean. The gunners were more than willing to have their uniforms torn and soiled by the artist. (Gillis, 97) In the original sketch, the gunner was smiling, to encourage the people back home to keep the ammo coming. Faced with the real machine
(NR encyclopedia, 45) His work became so popular that whenever the Post had a Norman Rockwell on the cover, it printed a quarter of a million extra copies (NR, 20). (Favorite paintings, 104) These portraits looked life like and they brought real popularity to his works from a lot of different people. (Sixty, 57) FDR had called these postwar peace ideals, "the Four Freedoms". The painting seems to be saying that our freedom is most valuable when we can take it for granted. He worked seriously, but always made it fun for the model. In the painting a dressed up boy with a baby carriage is taunted by friends on their way to play ball. The "Four Freedoms" were published in the Post in 1943. There were empty cartridges on the ground and heaps of cartridge tape to show that his ammunition was gone. For the illustration, Norman used Lynda Gunn as the model. Stuart, who was the Post artist editor in 1944, was referring to Norman Rockwell's ability to act out for his models the exact expression he wanted. (NR, 45) The Treasury Department eventually distributed about four million sets of posters. Norman would joke with them to make them feel relaxed. The poster was a success (Gillis, 97). " If Rockwell hadn't been a master storyteller in -print," wrote Kenneth Stuart, "he would've been a marvelous actor.
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