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Norman Rockwell

Norman Rockwell, a realist painter from before the rise of the modernist painters, painted this most striking piece of comical irony as his response to the rise of the modernist painters such as Jackson Pollack and Pablo Picasso.  This work, painstakingly real shows within it a modernist paint splattering and a man, who no doubt, like most of his time is asking himself what the hell is going on in the art world.  Rockwell's amazing precision and skill with human faces leaves one to notice that he does not show the face of the older man in the picture.  We can only judge his face by his stern at attention stance that suggests a stoic look of horror having finally viewed the art that all the critics have been raving about.
 

(Added by Eric J. Tower on 3/10/2004, 10:38pm)

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