illustr8r alerted me to a Smithsonian article where 4 artists were chosen to reimagine Norman Rockwell’s 4 iconic Saturday Evening Post covers that comprised the “Four Freedoms.”
Rockwell’s Four Freedoms were already a reimagining of sorts. They were based on a speech made by FDR that largely went unnoticed until 2 years later when Rockwell made the speech more accessible with his depictions.
Needless to say, Smithsonian has “modernized” the Four Freedoms by commissioning four artists that know nothing at all except run-of-the-mill claptrap and buzzwords that are guaranteed to get you the commission.
Diversity, truth to power, institutional racism, and an accusation that Americans do not like immigrants, I kid you not, are all part of these modern artist’s descriptions of their work.
I thought art was supposed to challenge the viewer, not make them fall asleep?
Only a progressive would think our freedoms would have to be reiterated in art, but through the lens of the grievance industrial complex, one that has been sucking at the nearly dry government teet for decades.
illustr8r sent me the alert. She said:
Apparently, 21st century artists are unable match the talent and technique of ol’ Norman Rockwell.
The Four Freedoms don’t need to be reimagined in the first place.
Whatever.
Freedom from Common Sense
Freedom from Gender…?
They all either debase whites or co-opt our cultural traditions into grotesque alien charectures that are tawdry and unrecognizable.
Screw the Smithsonian, Rockwell did it best
Artists and journalists are code for progressive liberals which is code for communists
In other words, they’re *celebrating*
Freedom from Liberty.
Who needs “Two Minutes of Hate”
when you can have
“Four Portraits of Hate”?
The whole premise was faulty to begin with. FDR was a Libtard Socialist, and his “Four Freedoms” speech was part of his Second Bill of Rights (ptui!).
This is the sandy foundation that today’s Libtard socialists are still attempting to build their utopian society on.
National Geographic, or Fractural Demographic?
Still promoting the distortions of the Left with: ‘Why do I have a dislike of immigrants?’
We don’t dislike immigrants. The problem is with ILLEGAL Immigrants! Get it right, get it accurate and get it straight for once and for all!!
More distortions are portraying the predominance of Blacks, homosexuals and transexuals. Watching TV anymore and you’d think that Blacks are 86% of the population and that half your neighbors are homosexuals or transexuals. The only thing wrong with requesting fair representation of all races on TV is that it would be held up as the classic, shining example of White Supremacy!
“Reimagined”-vaguely imitated to mock the artist and America by no-talent social marxists.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984
I’m only surprised that they did not commission Anres Serrano to do all four. After all, THAT is what the Smithsonian has become today.
You can almost see the numbers. :barf:
America doesn’t need to… “re-imagine”… Rockwell. We need to REDISCOVER Rockwell’s America. And RETURN to it. 😡
With apologies to illustr8r I did not follow the link. No reason to start my day off in a blind rage.
FTA: “In the original Freedom of Worship, the five figures in the center are all white. The fringes are people of color,” O’Brien says. “That’s what institutional racism is, when you fail to notice things like that.”
One the other hand, I would say “That’s what being a leftist is, when that is the first thing you notice.”
I appreciate the Smithsonian’s demonstration of just how good Rockwell’s originals really are by comparison with what passes for art today.
Fake news – Fake art – Fake DOJ, FBI, ATF & NSC, Fake National debt, Fake Federal Reserve.
Real dangers.
I’m shocked nobody used feces as a platform.
@BROWN ~ AND …. thinking of how western civilization through Christianity brought medicine, education and the arts to the darker, uncivilized places in the world. After the Brits left India it could have reverted back to Indian ways culturally, but chose not to.
I have always loved Rockwell and I recall “serious art lovers” including my high school art teacher criticizing Rockwell as a “mere illustrator.” Yeah well if you had half the talent as Rockwell you wouldn’t be teaching a high school art class.
Not one of the remakes was as good as the original.
(Smithsonian moderated this exact comment on their site. It will be interesting to come back to later and see if they approved it for posting.)
Here are the very last words I ever read in Smithsonian:
“Did a pin ever land you in hot water?”
“Definitely. When I went to Russia with President Bill Clinton for a summit, I wore a pin with the hear-no-evil, see-no-evil, speak-no evil monkeys, because the Russians never would talk about what was really going on during their conflict with Chechnya. President Vladimir Putin asked why I was wearing those monkeys. I said, because of your Chechnya policy. He was not amused. I probably went too far.”
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/madeleine-albright-on-her-life-in-pins-149191/
Next, they’ll be remaking GONE WITH THE WIND and THE WIZARD OF OZ with all-negro casts.
What passes for art nowadays is like what passes for education, dumbed down garbage.
Thirdtwin, I wonder if Madeleine Not All That bright wore the three monkeys pin when she was standing on the steps of the Capital with the other flunkie Progs supporting Bill Clinton when he lied about Monica.
WTF? Why take perfectly good art and turn into trash? Like everything else in the USA, the liberals want to turn everything into s#@*!
Smithsonian knows its head is on the chopping block, so it’s getting out whatever funds it can to the Sleaze de la Sleaze.
Norman Rockwell, an American Icon should just be admired and no attempt to recreate his work should ever be attempted.
Text freezing here again, my comment lost forever.
(It was a good one I assure you.)
I honestly thought they would be worse. They were just banal. Very very boring.
@F.D.R. in Hell February 24, 2018 at 10:10 am – Next, they’ll be remaking GONE WITH THE WIND and THE WIZARD OF OZ with all-negro casts.”
They’ll have to put a white in Hattie McDaniel’s role.
FDR in Hell,
The Wizard of Oz has already been done with an all black cast. It was called “The Wiz” (no, not The Whiz).
@ Phuzzy
I nominate Rosie O’Donnell for the roll (sic) of Hattie McDaniel.