bout. These pictures(Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Fear, Freedom of Worship, and Freedom from Want)were toured in sixteen select cities and were seen by 1,222,000 people and used in selling$132,999,537 worth of war bonds (Buechner, Artist, 161). Rockwell also praised theefforts of women during the war in his paintings. In his Saturday Evening Post covertitled “Rosie the Riveter” , Rosie (as indicated on her lunch box) sits in a pose of the Valentine, 4prophet Isaiah (created by Michelangelo in his Sistine chapel painting). This pose portraysthe power of women who have filled in for the men in heavy industry jobs (Meyer, 42). Rockwell also made many Army recruiting posters, to recruit younger peoples to thearmed forces.After the war to his death Rockwell painted all sorts of subjects. He painted everysingle presidential candidate, starting with Eisenhower. He painted scenes of spaceexploration, more specifically, Apollo 11 landing on the moon. He painted one of themost famous self-portraits during this time. Called “Triple self-portrait”, it showsRockwell painting a much younger self while looking into a mirror of his older self. Rockwell even painted social problems of that time including segregation. In “TheProblem We All Live With”, a little African-American girl is being escorted into school byfour United States Marshals while the little girl has tomatoes being thrown at her.Rockwell’s art has clearly became the most recognizable art in America’s time.Rockwell’s art brought the America people as a whole together to reminisce of the earlystages of childhood innocents, he told us the idealistic American Dream was and hepersuaded us as a country to fight for what is right and protect our freedoms that ourancestors fought so hard for during World War II. Norman Rockwell had a style uniquelyhis own, his illustrations looking so real at times, that it looks like he had justpho...
