https://padlet.com/myemailaddress2017/artfinal2016 A man of many paintings en-us 2016-11-28 20:13:49 UTC 2026-02-01 05:39:44 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Pictureland.png myemailaddress2017 https://padlet.com/myemailaddress2017/artfinal2016/wish/140339393 Girl at Mirror follows a long tradition by fine artists of picturing a woman contemplating her reflection. ]]> 2016-11-28 20:54:38 UTC https://padlet.com/myemailaddress2017/artfinal2016/wish/140339393 myemailaddress2017 https://padlet.com/myemailaddress2017/artfinal2016/wish/140339952 was the last of Rockwell's Christmas covers for The Saturday Evening Post. It also signaled the end of Rockwell's portraying life as he thought readers wanted to see it 

]]> 2016-11-28 20:56:40 UTC https://padlet.com/myemailaddress2017/artfinal2016/wish/140339952 myemailaddress2017 https://padlet.com/myemailaddress2017/artfinal2016/wish/140340971 an old circus clown named Pokey Joe who is coaxed by his friends into a checkers game to lift his spirits and renew his self confidence.

]]> 2016-11-28 21:01:16 UTC https://padlet.com/myemailaddress2017/artfinal2016/wish/140340971 myemailaddress2017 https://padlet.com/myemailaddress2017/artfinal2016/wish/140341231 Norman Rockwell once said he envied students who swooned when viewing the Mona Lisa because he never felt such passion. Rockwell may have seen himself as a more analytical artist With typical humor, Rockwell replaces the homely woman with one more alluring.

]]> 2016-11-28 21:02:25 UTC https://padlet.com/myemailaddress2017/artfinal2016/wish/140341231 myemailaddress2017 https://padlet.com/myemailaddress2017/artfinal2016/wish/140341807 Everyone in the picture is smiling the same small smile, and we, as beholders at once inside and outside this cozy scene, are invited to smile as well]]> 2016-11-28 21:04:42 UTC https://padlet.com/myemailaddress2017/artfinal2016/wish/140341807 myemailaddress2017 https://padlet.com/myemailaddress2017/artfinal2016/wish/140342291 Humor and humility were essential aspects of Norman Rockwell's character, so when asked to do a self-portrait that would announce the first of eight excerpts of his autobiography, the results were lighthearted and somewhat self-deprecating.]]> 2016-11-28 21:06:53 UTC https://padlet.com/myemailaddress2017/artfinal2016/wish/140342291 myemailaddress2017 https://padlet.com/myemailaddress2017/artfinal2016/wish/140342620 "I like to paint kids... people think of their own youth," Rockwell once said and he had first hand experience as reference for this work. "I ran away from home when I was a kid in Mamaroneck and mooned around the shore; kicking stones and watching the whitecaps on Long Island Sound. Pretty soon it began to get dark and a cold wind sprang up and moaned in the trees. So I went home."

]]> 2016-11-28 21:08:15 UTC https://padlet.com/myemailaddress2017/artfinal2016/wish/140342620 myemailaddress2017 https://padlet.com/myemailaddress2017/artfinal2016/wish/140343109  Rockwell's studio was temporarily transformed into an abstract expressionist's workplace as he painted The Connoisseur, a painting about the relationship between conventional]]> 2016-11-28 21:10:10 UTC https://padlet.com/myemailaddress2017/artfinal2016/wish/140343109