#NormanRockwell125 आज नॉर्मन रॉकवेल (जन्म १८९४) आणि वसंत सरवटे (जन्म १९२७) या दोघांची जन्मतिथी आहे.
Artist: Gerrit Dou (1613-1675)
John Updike, ‘Always Looking: Essays on Art’:
“...this (Norman Rockwell) most successful of twentieth-century commercial artists also practiced art for art’s sake....”
“...this (Norman Rockwell) most successful of twentieth-century commercial artists also practiced art for art’s sake....”
अगदी हेच वर्णन
दीनानाथ दलालांना लागू होत....महाराष्ट्रातील most successful of
twentieth-century commercial artists also practiced art for art’s sake....
शि द फडणीसांवरती
मला रॉकवेल यांचा
खूप प्रभाव जाणवतो...
माझ्या मते भारतातील
सामान्य जीवनाचे चित्रण करणारी,
त्यात विनोद शोधणारी
अशी फडणीसांची अनेक
चित्रे रॉकवेल
यांच्या उत्तम चित्रांच्या दर्जाची
आहेत...
पण ,फडणीसांची अद्भुतता रॉकवेल
यांच्या चित्रात जवळपास नाहीच...
फडणीसांची चित्रकारिता सुद्धा बरीच
वेगळी आहे...
Deborah Solomon:
“Rockwell had celebrated the small
and local, not the global and cinematic. But the emphasis on the common man
that was central to America’s sense of self in 20th-century America gave way,
in the television-centered 1960s, to the worship of celebrities, whose life
stories and marital crises replaced those of the proverbial next-door neighbor
as subjects of interest and gossip.”
आणि जे अमेरिकेत
झाल, तेच भारतात
झाल ... "the worship of
celebrities, whose life stories and marital crises replaced those of the
proverbial next-door neighbor as subjects of interest and gossip"...
Marriage License, June 11, 1955
Christopher Finch, 1988:
"There can be little doubt that this is one of Rockwell's
finest works. The idea behind it is
simple enough: The artist contrasts the young couple applying for a marriage
license with the elderly clerk who has seen it all a thousand times before. But
the scene is evoked with such affection that it becomes suffused with complex
resonances. The old clerk occupies an office that, like him, seems to belong to
the past. It contains rows of dusty volumes and an ornate potbellied stove.
Paint is peeling from the dingy walls and cigarette butts are scattered on the
floor. But the tall sash window lets in the early-summer light, which falls on
the young couple, bathing them in its glow and causing them to stand out from
their surroundings. Their concentration on the task at hand is such that the
surroundings have no meaning for them anyway. In this composition the play
ofdarkness and light is used both to create the architecture of the painting
and to produce an emotional effect on the viewer. Everything about this
painting seems just right. Artists are notoriously critical of their own work,
but in this instance it is impossible to think that Rockwell cannot have been
satisfied with the result of his labors."
The Grocer’s Shop: a Woman Selling Grapes, 1672,
Artist: Gerrit Dou (1613-1675)
