Stockbridge museum unveils comprehensive look at Norman Rockwell’s legacy
Rockwell s large-format Four Freedoms paintings have returned to Stockbridge following a 2-year tour that included the Memorial de Caen in Normandy. Freedom of Speech, a 1943 illustration for The Saturday Evening Post. Contributed photo/Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)
Rockwell s paintings overflow with detail upon detail and this painting suggests the promise of youth, the wisdom of old age and a celebration of sunlight. Aunt Ella Takes A Trip is a 1942 illustration for Ladies Home Journal. Contributed photo/Norman Rockwell Family Agency
A photo illustration created by Peterson may begin with just four people, with the window, wallpaper and other props added later. Freedom From What? (I Can t Breathe), 2015. Contributed photo/Collection of the artist
Rockwell’s art and times
Rockwell’s large-format “Four Freedoms” paintings have returned to Stockbridge following a two-year tour that included the Memorial de Caen in Normandy. “Freedom of Speech,” above, was a 1943 illustration for The Saturday Evening Post. CONTRIBUTED
Rockwell s paintings overflow with detail upon detail and this painting suggests the promise of youth, the wisdom of old age and a celebration of sunlight. Aunt Ella Takes A Trip is a 1942 illustration for Ladies Home Journal. Contributed photo/Norman Rockwell Family Agency
“Freedom From What? (I Can t Breathe)” is a 2015 illustration by Pops Peterson. Contributed
In 1992, presidential candidate Bill Clinton attempted to make a lawyerly distinction as to his marijuana use while at Oxford University, as depicted by cartoonist Pat Oliphant. President Barack Obama later said, “When I was a kid, I inhaled frequently. That was the point.” Contributed
With the voices of Michelle Caucheteux, Jean-Claude Donda, Michel Robin, Monica Viegas, Beatrice Bonifassi and Charles Prevost Linton. The Triplets of Belleville will have you walking out of the theater with a goofy damn grin on your face, wondering what just happened to you.
To call it weird would be a cowardly evasion. It is creepy, eccentric, eerie, flaky, freaky, funky, grotesque, inscrutable, kinky, kooky, magical, oddball, spooky, uncanny, uncouth and unearthly. Especially uncouth. What I did was, I typed the word weird and when that wholly failed to evoke the feelings the film stirred in me, I turned to the thesaurus and it suggested the above substitutes and none of them do the trick, either.
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Don t try to deny it, girls. You know that any mundane activity becomes stonkingly sexy and macho when performed by a middle-aged man.
Bicycling ceases to be a pastime for children and retired ladies, when a Lycra-clad male in his virile mid-40s is astride the pedals.
The pavements are no longer the preserve of ordinary walkers, now that they can be a racetrack for angrily perspiring blokes in training for a half-marathon.
But of all the ways a gent in his prime can assert his alpha maleness, there s nothing more heroic than cookery.
Not normal, dinner-in-a-hurry cookery, of course. Don t expect a real man to fix fishfingers and beans for the kids on a school night. The mere suggestion is an insult to his testosterone.
Calderdale based artist Roger Davies is celebrating aspects of the local area
Many of his paintings feature local places and familiar landmarks, all presented in his own unmistakable style.
He said: “I love where I live, and I’d like to make a positive contribution towards the rich artistic heritage which we have here in West Yorkshire. Many artists whose work inspires me come from this area, and I aspire to follow in their footsteps.”
Roger Davies’s artwork is currently on display at Off The Wall, a gallery/shop in The Piece Hall, Halifax.
Calderdale based artist Roger Davies is celebrating aspects of the local area