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Exhibition of award-winning illustrator and animator continues Norman Rockwell Museum's "Distinguished Illustrator Serie

last weekArts : Artdaily

Norman Rockwell Museum continues its Distinguished Illustrator Series this spring with an exhibition showcasing the work of R.O. Blechman, an award-winning illustrator, animator, children?s book author, graphic novelist, and editorial cartoonist, whose work has become instantly recognizable to many readers. Show More Summary

Star Wars Director George Lucas Named A Finalist To Create New Museum In San Francisco

Star Wars director Lucas was chosen as one of three finalists to build a cultural institution in San Francisco’s Presidio, a national park. His collection of artists such as Norman Rockwell would form part of the museum's contents. Lucas has promised to donate $700 million to build and maintain the museum.

How Rockwell turned a detractor into a defender

My friend David Starrett met Norman Rockwell a couple of times in Los Angeles in 1949 when Rockwell was artist-in-residence at the old Otis art school. David told me this story, which he witnessed. In those days, a lot of the art teachers at Otis criticized Rockwell. Show More Summary

Sakiroo Choi Pays Grotesque Homage To Norman Rockwell And Puts Lemon Heads On Everyone [Art]

Sakiroo Choi takes Norman Rockwell's classic Saturday Evening Post paintings and pulls at their rubbery masks, stretching them into unexpected cartoon tributes. That's when he isn't outfitting presidents, artists, fictional characters and... Read more Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

John Baldessari on Rene Magritte's 'The Treachery of Images' at LACMA

2 months agoArts : Culture Monster

This is not a great painting. I would call it an illustration, and like Norman Rockwell images, it looks better in reproduction. But it's a great lesson of a painting. I've always felt that a word and image are of equal value, and that's certainly what this painting is about.

Art Review: George Bellows @ Royal Academy

2 months agoEngland / London : Londonist

Alongside Edward Hopper and Norman Rockwell, George Bellows is considered one of America’s finest painters – yet he is not that well known outside of the States. This exhibition aims to remedy this fact by showcasing his attempts to capture New York city life from the bustle of Times Square to Battery Park in the snow. Show More Summary

Original paintings and all 323 Saturday Evening Post covers included in new Norman Rockwell exhibition

2 months agoArts : Artdaily

One of the most popular American artists of the past century, Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) was a keen observer of human nature and a gifted storyteller. His paintings graced more than 300 covers of the popular Saturday Evening Post magazine and he is one of the best-loved illustrators in the history of American art. Show More Summary

Norman Rockwell Museum presents "Istvan Banyai: Stranger in a Strange Land"

2 months agoArts : Artdaily

Norman Rockwell Museum continues its ongoing Distinguished Illustrator Series this spring by exploring the work of the innovative Hungarian-born artist Istvan Banyai, whose unique approach to image-making found an unlikely home in the...Show More Summary

New from Borealis Books: The Rockwell Heist: The Extraordinary Theft of Seven Norman Rockwell Paintings

2 months agoArts : Artdaily

When a small midwestern gallery is burgled, artworks by an American icon disappear into the international market for stolen art, but the gallery?s owners refuse to give up the search. In 1978 seven Norman Rockwell paintings and a supposed Renoir, later discovered to be a forgery, were stolen from Elayne Galleries in St. Show More Summary

Istvan Banyai exhibition

Looking forward to seeing this exhibition of Istvan Banyai’s work at the Norman Rockwell Museum. Opens Saturday, March 9, 6 to 8:30 p.m. Image: Objectivity, 2011.

Ozzie Sweet, Who Helped Define New Era of Photography, Dies at 94

He considered himself not a news photographer but a photographic illustrator, and like the work of the painter Norman Rockwell, whom he claimed as an influence, his signature images from the 1940s through the 1950s and into the 1960s, many in the fierce hues of increasingly popular color film that emulated the emergent Technicolor palate [...]

Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse hosts works by Georgia O'Keeffe, Norman Rockwell

3 months agoArts : Artdaily

The Everson Museum of Art announced that it is presenting ?American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O?Keeffe to Rockwell? February 16 ? May 12, 2013. The exhibition, organized by the Brooklyn Museum, is on a national tour with eight venues....Show More Summary

Gant by Michael Bastian Fall/Winter 2013

Norman Rockwell's post-war America was the focus of Bastian's fall offering

Networks Praise 'Historic' Move By Boy Scouts, ABC Compares Gay Struggle to Rockwell Painting

The three networks on Monday night and Tuesday morning hailed a "historic" potential change by the Boy Scouts that would lift the ban on gays in their organization. ABC compared the move to a famous Norman Rockwell painting. NBC featured...Show More Summary

Fox's Neil Cavuto Claims Food Stamps Have Become A "Norman Rockwell Type Of A Benefit" That "We Glorify"

From the January 18 edition of Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto: Previously: Fox Business Complains Children Receiving Food Assistance Participate In "Entitlement Culture" Fox's Tantaros Treats Food Stamps As A Diet Plan: "Do You Know How Fabulous I'd Look?" Food Stamps Are An Antipoverty Program, But Fox Won't Tell You That

Norman Rockwell in Gotham City

Few things scream Americana more than Norman Rockwell’s iconic Saturday Evening Post covers. Inherently charming and idyllic, the 323 original illustrations remain heart-warming reminders of simpler times — so why not produce a semi-creepy...Show More Summary

Friday Links

Why does the New Year begin on January 1? Photos hat inspired Norman Rockwell’s paintings. Keep reading this post...

Gotham Evening Post, Batman Themed Cover Illustrations in the Style of Norman Rockwell

5 months agoOdd : Laughing Squid

Gotham Evening Post, a series of illustrations by artist Mark Dos Santos, put a Batman themed spin on The Saturday Evening Post cover designs by iconic painter and illustrator Norman Rockwell. Prints are available to purchase online. images via Mark Dos Santos via Geek Art Gallery, io9

Batman Character Art In The Style Norman Rockwell's Iconic Saturday Evening Post Covers

5 months agoOdd : Geekologie

This is a series of fictional Gotham Evening Post covers by artist Dos Santos (links to page where you can buy prints) in the style of Norman Rockwell's iconic Saturday Evening Post ones. Personally, I'm a huge fan of Norman Rockwell's style. Show More Summary

Paul R. Byrne: The Christmas That Never Was

Have you seen this painting? Created by Norman Rockwell, it is one of a quartet created in celebration of FDR's 1941 address to Congress...

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