{"id":162,"date":"2011-02-27T21:42:50","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T02:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alisonstephen.com\/blog\/?p=162"},"modified":"2016-12-10T10:24:36","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T15:24:36","slug":"norman-rockwell-behind-the-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alisonstephen.com\/blog\/archives\/162","title":{"rendered":"Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoyed this Norman Rockwell exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum today.  It focuses on the photos he arranged as reference for his illustrations.  Rockwell&#8217;s compositions are so familiar to me and so many Americans. I loved seeing how he planned each one. They didn&#8217;t just appear as fully-crafted scenes of Americana on the covers of the Saturday Evening Post!<\/p>\n<p>If you wondered before this show why many illustrators use photographic reference, you won&#8217;t after! The perfect tilt of a girl&#8217;s head at the soda fountain, her shy sideways glance&#8230; By picking and choosing bits from so many carefully-staged reference photos, Rockwell pieced together the characters that are part of my cultural image bank.<\/p>\n<p>Not to mention how amazing it was to see the beautifully-detailed original oil paintings, sometimes 3 or 4 feet tall, he did just for cover illustrations. Wow!  This guy was really a master of his craft.<\/p>\n<p>An inspiring show. See it before April 10, 2011.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynmuseum.org\/exhibitions\/norman_rockwell\/\">http:\/\/www.brooklynmuseum.org\/exhibitions\/norman_rockwell\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoyed this Norman Rockwell exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum today. It focuses on the photos he arranged as reference for his illustrations. Rockwell&#8217;s compositions are so familiar to me and so many Americans. I loved seeing how he planned &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alisonstephen.com\/blog\/archives\/162\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-out-and-about"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonstephen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonstephen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonstephen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonstephen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonstephen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/alisonstephen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"https:\/\/alisonstephen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonstephen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonstephen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonstephen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}