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Norman Rockwell Little Girl with Lipstick. 1922 г

The Gossips is the culmination of Rockwell’s fascination with the subject of gossip - while he had painted works exploring this theme in the past, it was not until his immersion in the Arlington community that the final composition came to fruition. In the present work, Rockwell depicts 15 figures, each portrayed twice, as part of a chain receiving and passing on a tidbit of gossip. The attention he pays to naturalistic detail in these expressive portraits is exceptional, and the artist ultimately conveys a sense of the personality and character of each figure. [Sold for $8,453,000 at Sotheby’s, New York - Oil on canvas, 83.8 x 78.7 cm]

Norman Rockwell's 'Freedom from Want' is a classic image of Thanksgiving. Here are some facts you might not know about it.

BYU professors share how they have been touched by Norman Rockwell paintings.

Norman Percevel Rockwell [1894-1978] was a 20th century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States, where Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created.

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Американский художник Norman Percevel Rockwell/ 3. Детство. " Американский художник и иллюстратор Norman Percevel Rockwell (1894- 1978). Детство. 1960. Going and Coming. Boy in A dining Car. April Fool Girl with Shopkeeper. Girl at Mirror. 1954. Tom Sawyer. 1936. The Party Favour. Family Home…

The "Leyendecker Look" continues to reverberate.

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The Flirt Reflecting the shared experiences we have throughout our lives, Norman Rockwell's paintings are truly timeless. As the ultimate storyteller,

Girl at the Mirror oil painting Post Cover 3/6/1954 And now a bit more from my Favorite Artist Norman Rockwell. I wanted to stick within a theme of "childhood". First one up is Girl at the Mirror 1954. Since my own daughter is about the same age as the girl in the painting it moves me. She is looking at her own beautiful face thinking "when will I look more grown up?" She is holding a magazine ( how many times did we do this as teens?) On the floor tossed to the side is her doll. At her feet is her brush and comb and a lipstick. Kind of caught between two worlds. Bittersweet for me right now as I look at my own daughter. Home From Camp Top Value Enterprises,Inc Stamps Cover, 1968 The next is called Home from Camp 1968. Here we see the little boy back from his adventure away at summer camp. The door is left a bit opened because in their joy no one thought to close it and what kid has ever closed a door without being told to anyway right? Look at the way Rockwell captures the pride in the Dad's face. Look at Mom. she is just so happy her baby is home. It seems that she is saying "Oh, let me just look at you!!!!" Her face says it all. She sees a difference in her child and wants to soak it in. The boy is proud and so happy to be missed and loved. Look at the birdhouse he made just for mom. and he even sports what seems like a tiny band-aid on his finger. Even their dog is happy to have his buddy back. Breaking Home Ties Oil painting Post cover 9/25/1954 This one is called Breaking Home Ties 1954. This one makes me a bit sad. Father and son are waiting. For a bus? Train? the son sits straight and seems ready for the world in his brand new suit and tie. He has his books and even a sticker of the school he is about to call home for the next four years. He is eagerly looking forward to his future and the start of his life. Dad on the other hand looks to the past it seems. His hands are that of a working man's hands. His clothes are old. He's here to see his son off. My guess is that he has worked hard all his life to provide a better life for his son, but this day the day he has worked for now brings him alot of sadness too. The dog feeling that he is about to lose his best friend lovingly rests his head on the the young man's lap. I love this painting it's one of my absolute favorites. I hope you enjoyed these. Have a great day. Blessings, Joanne

For this work, Rockwell posed the young model at the top of the stairs in his own home and assembled a group of friends and neighbours downstairs. Once he was satisfied with the photos, Rockwell would return to his studio and combine his preliminary sketches with the photos to create a series of small-scale colour studies. These preliminary sketches allowed Rockwell to experiment with colour and provide a glimpse into the artist’s creative process. After executing several colour studies for Little Girl Looking Downstairs at Christmas Party, Rockwell ultimately decided to add additional details to the work and final painting, including the young girl’s doll and wreath on the banister. [Sotheby’s, New York - Oil on canvas, 71.1 x 73.7 cm]

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More than 40 years after Norman Rockwell's death, the question of whether his paintings are realistic or unrealistic remains open for debate.

Norman Rockwell was an artist of the 20th century with work ranging from humor to civil rights. Here you can find information about his collections

(Part II) The Runaway Trumpeter Boy Reading His Sister’s Diary Exasperated Nanny Boy In A Dining Car Moon Light Serenade I Will Do My Best The Fishing Trip The Catch Leap Frog Spring 1928 Spr…

A winged subterranean creature fires out of a mountain cave to release or is it perhaps to devour a golden bird—or the symbol for the Holy Spirit?—against a blue winter sky.

A timeless and iconic work of art by Norman Rockwell that depicts Ruby Bridges being escorted to an all-white school in New Orleans by four U.S. Marshals after the school board was forced to desegregate in 1960 by Federal Judge Skelly Wright since they didn't comply and desegregate the school after the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education case in 1954.  This piece was painted by Norman Rockwell for Look Magazine in 1964 and was his first assignment and illustration for the publication.

As the story goes, Box-Car Bertha was a young woman transient of the 1930s who made her way through life as a prostitute, a thief and a murderer. In 1972, Martin Scorsese captured the life of this character in his film, Box-Car Bertha, staring Barbara Hershey and David Carradine. The film is an adaptation of Dr. Ben L. Reitman’s autobiography of Box-Car Bertha, “Sister of the Road.” Reitman’s story, however, was actually a composite of women he knew in the 1930s, women who “road the rails” and lived by any means in order to survive. These women, and their male counterparts, had compelling reasons for leaving their homes, they were hopeful of finding a better life elsewhere. They shared an identity with others who they met on the road. No matter where they landed or who they met while traveling, they shared a common culture, they proudly called themselves Hoboes. Today, the term hobo often conjures up romantic images of men and women from another era who traveled the country in empty boxcars, unimpeded by worldly goods and pressures, enjoying a life of freedom and independence. I remember as a kid in the 1950s that dressing up as a hobo was one the most popular Halloween costumes; torn and patched old pants and jacket, floppy hat, charcoal or black smudges on the cheeks, and a stick over the shoulder with a handkerchief sack tied on the end. Little did I know of the men and women who actually were Hoboes, traveling by train and living in “jungle” camps. This historical image is seldom seen in today’s healthy economy, but back in the Economic Depression of the 1930s, riding the rails in search of a better life was common. At the height of the Depression, historians estimate that 250,000 teenagers were transients, who hitched rides on trains, lived in “jungles” or hobo camps--all looking to go anywhere that was different from the impoverished homes they left behind. Most of the kids were not bums. Any good hobo worth his salt will tell you that bums did not work, they lived on handouts. But Hoboes, sometimes called tramps, traveled to find work, usually looking for agricultural work. It is believed that the term Hobo is derived from “Hoe-boy,” which described migrant farm workers around the turn of the twentieth century. Hoe-Boys often carried their own tools when they traveled, ready to be employed in any field needing attention. The Hobo culture goes back farther than the turn of the twentieth century and has it’s origins in post Civil War American South. After the Civil War, many who were homeless jumped on the trains for a free ride west to find work. These transients worked on farms, on construction jobs, on gas lines, or on the railroads, where they helped to open the American West. The stories of the children who left home in the 1930s reveal a complicated set of circumstance that forced them to seek shelter, support, and companionship from others who traveled the rails. Many of the young men and women who left home at an early age did so because of abusive parents and economic troubles, which added to their already uncertain futures. When “the big trouble came,” meaning the start of the depression, many who were on the bottom rung of the economic ladder suffered the most. The children living in the hobo jungles talked about their mothers having married five or six times, each husband treating the kids differently. They talked about drunken parents who took out their frustrations on their children, physically abusing them. And others talked about making the decision to leave home so it would be easier on the younger children, one less mouth to feed. On the road these kids met up with others in the same circumstances and with older men and women traveling the country looking for work. Together, they formed a family where they took care of one another. Some traveled together until a job or different goals separated them. But universally, they shared a common bond, and a support system. In their culture, they developed a unique set of symbols, a language that helped them to find work, to stay away from certain people, to find a place to stay or eat—information from one stranger to another that would help them to survive. Many of us today have relatives who knew the “freedom of the road. “ My father and uncle were young men when the Depression started. The Depression gave them an opportunity to try and find work in the West, a place the boys dreamed about while growing up on a farm in Indiana. They found work paving roads in Yellowstone National Park. When winter came, they hopped the train and went back to the farm. When the snows melted, they went west again, looking for work in the Parks or on ranches. They never recorded their experiences. Others, however, talked of their adventures as hoboes. Among those were Supreme Court Justice, Willliam O. Douglas (1889-1980) and folk singer and actor, Burl Ives. The era of the Hobo is over. It is estimated that today there are perhaps 200 such individuals. But, in honor of the culture, each year in Britt, Iowa there is a hobo convention attended by those who “hoboed earlier” in their lives, and by those who just appreciate the freedom symbolized by the Hobo lifestyle. The convention started in 1900 and this year it is estimated that it will draw thousands of visitors. There is a cultural legacy left by those who were down and out in the 1930s-- folk songs that captured the experience and culture of those who lived on the road. A “Hobo Lullaby” sung by Emme Lou Harris pretty much sums up the life and era of the Hobo. Click on arrow

(Part VIII) The Music Man The Stayathomes – Outward Bound Boy Gazing At Cover Girls Halloween – Old Man And Boy Russian Schoolroom Little Boy Writing A Letter – Love Letters Begui…

Despite the growing efficiency of cameras in the nineteenth century, photography on the battlefield was difficult due to long exposures and cumbersome equipment. Because of this, Civil War illustrator reporters like Winslow Homer, Alfred Waud and Edwin Forbes were engaged to capture events that photography at the time could not. In the twentieth century, wartime illustrators remained in demand⸺as skillful practitioners they were able to prioritize in chaotic situations and assemble compelling visual evidence that communicated to viewers in a visceral way.

Paul Swan- Metamorphosis of Beauty Narodziny, Dojrzewanie, Starość i Śmierć... Odwieczny rytm życia nie omija kobiet, jednak wiele z nich nie potrafi się pogodzić z upływem czasu. Naturalna chęć przetrwania, która skutkuje potrzebą dbałości o siebie, została w obecnych czasach groteskowo spłycona przez media, wywierające bezlitosną presję wiecznej urody na ludzkie ciało- sugerując mimochodem dla własnych korzyści, iż bycie pełnowartościowym człowiekiem ogranicza się jedynie do powierzchowności. Wbrew wszelkim wymyślnym i sztucznie inwazyjnym zabiegom, wizerunek nie jest w stanie zastygnąć w rzeźbiarskiej pozie doskonałości... Lecz krzykliwy przekaz potrafi bardzo mocno wpłynąć na kobiecą wolę- w świecie, w którym nie ma miejsca na organiczne oznaki życia, takie jak zmarszczki, cellulit, blizny i rozstępy, nietrudno zatracić radość z bycia sobą takim, jakim się jest. Patrząc jedynie przez pryzmat ideału cielesnego piękna, doświadczając rozczarowania sobą, a przy okazji żyjąc w stresie i pośpiechu, zapominamy, jak ważna jest pielęgnacja duszy, która zaniedbywana- ubożeje. Możemy się sprzeciwić dyktaturze złudzeń i nagradzać siebie DLA SIEBIE , a nie dlatego, że oczekuje tego otoczenie! Nie pozwólmy uprzedmiotowić swojego ciała- nie jest towarem na sprzedaż, lecz areną tajemniczych procesów. Ono żywi się, oddycha, broni, dostosowuje, pragnie, czuje, zmienia... Akceptujmy i podkreślajmy nasze dobre wrodzone cechy, nie zmieniajmy ich na siłę. Norman Rockwell- Girl at mirror Dziękujmy sobie za to, że jesteśmy codziennie- niezależnie od tego, czy w kalendarzu akurat wypada Dzień Kobiet ;) Spoglądajmy w nasz wizerunek odbijający się w lutrze z szacunkiem, a nie z obawą, iż znów zauważymy na nim drobiazg mącący spokój przez resztę dnia... Kobieta ze zwierciadła nie jest wrogiem, z którym trzeba walczyć, lecz sprzymierzeńcem, którego prawdziwe piękno nie podlega cenzurze wieku. Theo Van Rysselberghe- Woman in a mirror Trzeba dojrzeć do myśli, iż całe nasze życie jest rytuałem Natury- nie naszą własnością. Możemy na nie wpływać poprzez działanie, lecz nie jesteśmy w stanie skreślić i na nowo siebie stworzyć. Pogodzenie wyrazu naszej tożsamości z obrazem ciała często nadchodzi przy terapiach SPA wypełnionym kojącymi aromatami, delikatnymi wrażeniami dotyku i ciepła, które wywołają poczucie wewnętrznej harmonii, absolutnego bezpieczeństwa i samozadowolenia. W tym upojnym stanie łatwo o odprężający uśmiech na twarzy, bo pozytywne doznania rozpieszczą nasze zmysły- krzepiąca świadomość, że potrafimy zaopiekować się swoim ciałem, umysłem i duszą, będzie wielką nagrodą :) Mając w zanadrzu odrobinę wolnego czasu warto uczcić swoją kobiecość i urządzić własne, wybitnie aromaterapeutyczne rytuał relaksacyjny z udziałem soli o znamiennej nazwie Look Inside wegańskiej marki SpaRitual. Założycielką marki jest Brytyjka Shell Pink, która za cel postawiła sobie wypromowanie ekologicznego stylu życia.W myśl tej idei powstała firma SpaRitual, która od 2005 roku udostępnia wszystkim kobietom w 100% wegańskie, luksusowe kosmetyki. Oferowane produkty nie były testowane na zwierzętach oraz nie zawierają składników pochodzenia zwierzęcego. Nazwa marki odzwierciedla to, co dla SpaRitual jest ważne – duchowość osiąganą poprzez wewnętrzną świadomość (spiritual) oraz dbałość o ciało (spa). Sól do kąpieli stóp, dłoni, lub całego ciała Look Inside zawiera pochodzący z plantacji Somalii i Arabii najwyższej jakości olejek eteryczny z żywicy olibanowej o bogatym, żywicznym aromacie.Ten żywiczny surowiec jest włączany w metodach naturalnych terapii, mających na celu stabilizację stanów emocjonalnych, gdyż harmonizujący czakrę sakralną. Żywica olibanowa łagodzi bóle głowy i mięśni, a także likwiduje wywołane stresem napięcie w mięśniach szyjnych, dobrze działa też na zespół niespokojnych nóg. Olejek pomocny jest też przy chorobach płuc, gdyż działa wykrztuśnie, i w regulacji głębokości oddechu- ludzie cierpiący na astmę lub mający inne problemy z oddychaniem, mogą odnieść dużo korzyści z korzystania z jej dobrodziejstw. Żywicę olibanową stosuje się głównie w mieszankach olejków lub kremach do leczniczego masażu klatki piersiowej, jako dodatek do szamponów, chusteczek do inhalacji, spryskiwaczy powietrza lub właśnie kosmetyków do kąpieli. Sól SpaRitual dzięki bazie w postaci tego cennego olejku żywicznego, jest wprost idealna dla suchej, wrażliwej i starzejącej się skóry. Dawka soli wsypana do parującej ciepłem wody skutecznie złagodzi stany zapalne skóry a także w pomoże zdezynfekować oraz zagoić ranki i skaleczenia. Ten wegański produkt tonizuje system nerwowy i reguluje trawienie, a także wzmacnia ogólnoustrojową odporność Energizujący kosmetyk SpaRitual nie tylko działa przeciwbólowo i rewitalizuje skórę, ale wraz z wydzielaniem swej ożywczej woni również rozbudza sensualność... Ten cudowny rodzaj żywicy ma bogaty, ciepły, wibrujący aromat. Słodycz woni płynącej z naturalnej mocy drzew, jest balsamem dla nadszarpniętych nerwów i zaproszeniem dla wyobraźni do snucia wędrówek wśród obłoków, leśnych ustępów i piaszczystych plaż... W oparach cudownego zapachu zatraćmy nasze granice- jeżeli tęsknimy za wolnością, to w trakcie kąpieli podarujmy sobie jej luksus. Z wody powstało życie... więc w aromatycznej wodzie niech nasze odrodzi się na nowo :) Starannie opakowana sól Look Inside zachwyca nie tylko od wewnątrz, ale i z zewnątrz- gustownie zdobiony, fioletowy kartonik z logo marki sprawia, że rozpieczętowanie zamkniętego w nim kosmetyku jest jeszcze przyjemniejsze. W solidnym białym pojemniku, o ściankach i pokrywce z grubego plastiku, skrywa się sól naturalnie barwiona na różowy kolor z odrobiną żółci ,dzięki zastosowaniu ekstraktów z buraka W masie solnej ukryta jest maleńka, półprzezroczysta miarka, która pomoże w aplikacji dokładnie takiej ilości kosmetyku, jakiej nam akurat potrzeba :) Skład: Olejek eteryczny z żywicy olibanowej, sole mineralne z Zatoki Kalifornijskiej i Morza Martwego, sole gorzkie, burak. Sól Look Inside zawiera świadomie dobrane składniki wegańskie- jest produktem w 70% organicznym. Nie zawiera barwników syntetycznych, sztucznych konserwantów, parabenów i petrochemikaliów i naturalnie ulega biodegradacji. Preparat można stosować osobno lub w połączeniu z odżywką Harmonizing Soak Tonic tej samej marki. Jeżeli pragniecie celebracji swego wrodzonego piękna rytuałem SPA z udziałem soli Look Inside( 220g produktu w regularnej cenie 80zł, aktualnie promocyjnej- 56 zł ), to koniecznie zajrzyjcie na stronę internetowego sklepu Zipsen, dzięki któremu można bez przeszkód zasmakować w kosmetykach SpaRitual.

(Part X) (10 – to be continued)

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The Flirt Reflecting the shared experiences we have throughout our lives, Norman Rockwell's paintings are truly timeless. As the ultimate storyteller,

copyright- estate of Norman Rockwell