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"NOT EVERYONE WHO VENTURES OUT to the Norman Rockwell Museum in Western
Massachusetts gets the luxury of a tour from the artist’s own family.
But on a fall day in this—yes—picture-perfect New England town, Daisy Rockwell
graciously took me through some of her famous grandfather’s most iconic works.
You’d recognize these masterpieces anywhere, even if you don’t know them by
name. The “Four Freedoms” paintings depict the fundamental freedoms that
President Franklin Roosevelt once declared all people entitled to:
Freedom of
Speech (a lone man who resembles young Abe Lincoln rises in dissent at a town
hall meeting),
Freedom From Want (a happy family awaiting a roast turkey),
Freedom of Worship (multiethnic group praying), and
Freedom From Fear
(parents tucking in their peacefully sleeping children).
The works have been endlessly parodied since their introduction in 1943. In the
internet age, they’ve become ubiquitously memed. (Freedom of Speech, for
example, is nowadays widely known as the “unpopular opinion” meme.) But
originally, they served as wartime propaganda, meant to help rally support for
America and its cause during the years of war against the Nazis.
As Daisy puts it, “Norman Rockwell was antifa”—literally.
So you’ll understand her indignation when President Trump began hijacking her
grandfather’s legacy to promote what she considers modern-day fascism."
Via Brad Koehn and Susan ****
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
