 Norman
Rockwell Portrait 2002
Norman
Rockwell walked into the offices of The Saturday Evening Post in
1916, a bold young art student with a portfolio of pictures under
his arm, and walked out as the over artist for America's favorite
magazine. So began Rockwell's career and the unique love affair
between the artist and the American public-spanning five decades,
over 300 covers and many more acclaimed works.
In 1993, his place
in art history was secured with a museum dedicated to his art.
Rockwell's paintings bridge the era from the horse-n-buggy to the
landing of a man on the moon. In his portraits of daily life, he
chronicled everyday people while capturing essential truths about
human strength and weakness, success and failure.
When speaking
of a Rockwell painting, one can truly say "a picture is
worth a thousand words." In some ways Rockwell painted a
better world but in his world we can dream
about, a "joyfull" world
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 The
Mystery of Picasso 1956 Filmmaker
Henri-Georges Clouzot understood and set about demonstrating The
Mystery of Picasso. The relationship between creation and
destruction in the artistic process. In 1955, Clouzot teamed with
his friend Pablo Picasso to capture as many aspects of the
brilliant painter's working methods as possible.
Clouzot
innovatively placed the camera in front of Picasso while the
latter worked, thus capturing astonishing reverse images of brush
strokes and "bleeding" inks in volatile motion.
The
result is that Clouzot's film--the screen, the frame--become
Picasso's canvas, and we find ourselves inside his prodigious
genius as works of beauty spontaneously burst forth and are
instantly crushed beneath the weight of new images, new ideas.
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