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Norman Rockwell - The Gossips [1948] | The Gossips is the cu… | Flickr Art And Illustration, Norman Rockwell Art, Rockwell Paintings, Norman Rockwell Paintings, American Illustration, Norman Rockwell, Old Master, Art Graphique, American Artists

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…

Norman Rockwell: The photos artist used as reference for his iconic illustrations | Daily Mail Online Soda Jerk, Norman Rockwell Prints, Norman Rockwell Art, Rockwell Paintings, American Realism, Norman Rockwell Paintings, Composition Art, Art Et Illustration, Norman Rockwell

These stunning images, from a Massachusetts exhibition, cast fresh light on the iconic illustrations of Norman Rockwell, revealing for the first time the study photographs the famed artist used as references for his work.

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How did artists like Norman Rockwell, Austin Briggs, Jon Whitcomb, and others create the believable unique faces that can tell a whole story by themselves? In a magazine cover, like those by Rockwell and Stevan Dohanos, the image, with its setting and, most of all, its characters, must convey an anecdote without any help from words. So each face must be carefully crafted to do its part in creating the drama⸺or comedy.

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