Example sentences for: rockwell

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  • Well before then, Johnson's political agenda moves to front and center, best revealed in a lengthy section lauding the minimalist economic and political philosophy of Calvin Coolidge (perhaps his favorite American president) and in another passage concerning Norman Rockwell, whose representations of the "magnanimity of Middle America" send Johnson into raptures: "It is now possible to predict his [Rockwell's] emergence as an Old Master, like the Dutch genre painters, especially Jan Steen, or the English moralist William Hogarth."

  • Michael Kimmelman glows in the New York Times , "[m]useums are full of pictures by old masters like Hals and Greuze and Boilly that, like Rockwell's pictures, show everyday scenes.

  • Drawing heavily on works in the museum's permanent collection, some of which are rarely displayed, Anderson's first attempt at a blockbuster eschews political correctness, offers no historical revisionism, and even includes work by Norman Rockwell without quotation marks.

  • Rockwell's transformation from lowbrow illustrator to classic American artist is now complete: A documentary on his life and works has aired on public television, a traveling exhibition of his work is making stops at Washington's Corcoran and New York's Guggenheim and, what's more, his work is being tentatively embraced by postmodern critics.

  • His many charitable projects--a genealogical research foundation, a Holocaust archive--endorse the same Norman Rockwell vision of tolerance as his movies.


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