Norman Rockwell is the most popular and famous artist in 20th by US. Most of his works show us his spirits for seek free and truth. Especially in his "Four Freedoms" series, made him be more popular and be respected around the world. Actually, almost all of his painting are based on ordinary people in everyday life, and mirror the really life of people.
Now, more than one hundred years after his birth, he got a new level to respect around the world, his painting stand for the really American spirit. His works made him different from other artists and at the top of the painting fields.
Rockwell was born in New York in 1894, he want to be an artist, and left high school and attend art school. When he graduated from school, he gets his first job in BOY'S LIFE magazine, and be more and more famous. All of his work's inspiration is from his really life and the others' life what he saw. All his works want to show us his dream about perfect world, that means he is eager for no war and live better.
In 1942, Rockwell painted some works for freedom of speech, freedom of worship and so on. It helps him be more famous around US.
In the 1960s, he married three times and by the bad times, bad markets, his spirits of painting exhibit a strong sense for Utopia to save people out of the poverty. Today, his spirits of painting are more popular and get more support by people. It is a spiritual guidance for every American forever.(URL:http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/rockwell_n.html)
Rockwell's painting as a kind of spiritual guidance