Word: michelangelos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Norman's stuff art-and who says so? Me, I happen to think Rockwell's best work is as good as Rembrandt's-and I think Rembrandt was terrific. Is it because Rockwell is commercial? ... If so, would you say that the work of Michelangelo, Franz Hals and Velasquez is also not art? They did their stuff to order for the Popes, Medicis, burghers and princes. ... Is it because Rockwell enjoys detail? If so, where does that put Vermeer, Dürer and Holbein? Is it because he puts the light of beauty ("sweetness," if you like...
...lordly, rotund lady riveter named Rosie (see cut), ankles crossed, overalled knees relaxed, looking royally satisfied with herself and her bulging cheekful of ham sandwich. Mr. Sommerville took Rosie the Riveter to the public library. Memory's bells became a carillon when he turned up a reproduction of Michelangelo's Isaiah (see cut). Mr. Sommerville sent his find to the Kansas City Star, which made good-humored...
Rosie's creator was probably the best-loved U.S. artist alive-lean, likable Norman Rockwell, painter of the nationally distributed Four Freedoms posters. After the Rosie episode, he got a good deal of personal mail at his home in Arlington, Vt. One of the letters felt that Michelangelo must be about as restful in his grave as a drill in a cavity. The others were pleased. Mr. Rockwell himself, quite untroubled, told questioners that the modeling was of course deliberate, that he thought it would be "fun." He added, "At first I was going to make it entirely like...
Rockwell's tastes in past and present art are entirely what his work would lead one to expect. He venerates Rembrandt and Breughel. He feels the normal awe for Michelangelo, but explains, "Michelangelo is not my star. If I could own an original, I'd rather own a fine Howard Pyle." Among his favorite contemporaries are Thomas Benton, John Steuart Curry, the late Grant Wood. He says "you can learn a tremendous lot from the abstractionists and so forth." But he adds that his own feeling for art is remote from the modernists'-"I like to please...
...since Michelangelo took revenge on a Vatican critic of his Last Judgment by limning the carper in the front row of the damned have prominent Roman Catholics so openly condemned an artistic project conducted under impeccable Catholic auspices...