Norman Rockwell
Norman Rockwell (Norman Rockwell, 1894 - 1978 - the artist, which was not considered during the life of a serious artist. And in vain! Norman Rockwell (born Norman Percevel Rockwell) (3 February 1894, New York, NY - November 8, 1978, Stockbridge, Massachusetts) - American painter and illustrator. His works are popular in the United States for four decades, he illustrated the cover of the magazine The Saturday Evening Post (321 cover). Norman Rockwell was born in 1894 in New York in 14 years enrolled in the New York School of Art, and two years later moved to the National Academy of Arts. Very soon, however, he was transferred to a creative group of Art Students League, where he studied under Thomas Fogarty and George Bridgeman. Manual Fogarty of Rockwell illustration produced in his first commercial orders. We Bridgeman he learned technical methods, to which he had relied all his long career.
By Rockwell success came early. His first order, he drew four Christmas cards, in the age of fifteen. While still a teenager, he was hired by a leading artist in the Boys' Life, the official publication of the battle Scouts of America. Around this same period, Rockwell began a successful career as a freelance artist, constantly receiving many orders for illustrations for youth zhurnalov.Kogda Rockwell turned 21, he organized his own studio. Very quickly he began to order the work such publications as Life, Literary Digest and others. Nearly a year Rockwell created his first magazine cover for the publication of The Saturday Evening Post. Illustrator has always appreciated the magazine, speaking about him as the most precise mirror of American zhizni.Period the thirties-forties proved the most fruitful career as an illustrator. Together with his wife and three sons, Rockwell moved from New York in the small town of Arlington, Vermont. Change of place of residence affected the work of Rockwell: he became more and more attention udelat image of American life in small towns. In 1943, inspired by President Franklin Roosevelt's speech in Congress, Rockwell created his famous series of paintings "American Freedom» ( «Four Freedoms»). In the United States has spread an atmosphere of commitment to democratic values, these works, Rockwell brought even greater fame, traveled to exhibitions all over the country, and received from the exhibitions of funds (130 million dollars) went to the military. However, in the same year at Rockwell's great misfortune: his studio in Arlington, was completely burned, and with it, and a large number of his works.
|