{"id":2479,"date":"2010-07-04T23:13:01","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T06:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/07\/steven-spielberg-george-lucas-get-their-rockwells-on\/"},"modified":"2010-07-08T14:18:20","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T21:18:20","slug":"steven-spielberg-george-lucas-get-their-rockwells-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/04\/steven-spielberg-george-lucas-get-their-rockwells-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Spielberg & George Lucas Get Their Rockwells On"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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America, Illustrated<\/nyt_headline><\/h1>\n

By DEBORAH SOLOMON<\/span><\/p>\n

IN an age when Democrats and Republicans are barely on speaking terms, you might not think that decades-old paintings of freckled schoolboys and their loyal mutts could help revive the conversation about what we value as a nation. Yet\u00a0Norman Rockwell<\/a>\u2019s cheerful America has lately acquired a startling relevance both inside and outside the art world, in part because it symbolizes an era when connectivity did not require a USB cable.<\/p>\n

Rockwell\u2019s paintings are easy to recognize. In the years surrounding World War II his covers for The Saturday Evening Post depicted America as a small-town utopia where people are consistently decent and possess great reserves of fellow-feeling. Doctors spend time with patients whether or not they have health insurance. Students cherish their teachers and remember their birthdays. Citizens at town hall meetings stand up and speak their mind without getting booed or shouted down by gun-toting rageaholics.<\/p>\n

This is America before the fall, or at least before searing divisions in our government and general population shattered any semblance of national solidarity. Rockwell\u2019s scenes of the small and the local speak to us in the age of the global because they offer a fantasy of civic togetherness that today seems increasingly remote. \u201cTo me the most important part of Rockwell\u2019s work is that it illustrates compassion and caring about other people,\u201d the filmmaker George Lucas<\/a>, who lives in Marin County, Calif., said recently. \u201cYou could almost say he was a Buddhist painter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Steven Spielberg<\/a>, speaking from Los Angeles, had similar praise. \u201cAnything for Norman,\u201d he said, when asked to discuss his work. \u201cHe was always on my mind because I had a great deal of respect for how he could tell stories in a single frozen image. Entire stories.\u201d<\/p>\n

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