Contrasting views on Norman Rockwell's America

A young lady with the radiance drawn by Norman Rockwell in 1953 depicts a young student studying at school, he has been sitting in a battle for a long time. We are waiting for the potential punishment of the principal at lecture and bench. Nevertheless, the girl was still crazy and showed a big smile on her face. Her eyes were swollen and hurt, her hair obviously pulled, confused, her clothes torn apart, her clothes were torn. The audience can quickly tell from smiles that there is no other way, and she loves that fight. Considering that her nephew, untied shoes, knees and elbows, it is clear that this student is a tomboy, a girl who is living a masculine life from other girls of the same age. At first glance, the audience can use this picture as a female independent celebration.

However, when people see the other two letters in the picture, gender information becomes more traditional. Students were brought from the teacher to the principal's office, and while looking at the students talking to the confused principal (miraculously across the wall) they were beautiful unmarried women. I care about her facial expression. This is a role model of a woman of this picture and the woman knows that when this girl maintains such a lifestyle in the 1950 's, it will eventually become happy. The teacher may be a tomboy when she is young, but if so, then she puts it behind her, then wears her skirt and then herself "a woman "I think. She hopes her students will give up and become an appropriate "san"

If there is love, the teacher's face is very serious. Judging from the expression of her and the principal, the teacher handled the problem more seriously than the principal responsible for maintaining school order. This is not surprising: men often find very cute boys in a simple way. The principal is a nominal boss of the teacher and is said to be weaker than the teacher - he is wearing glasses, is very thin and has a confused expression. His unrealistic struggle against the struggle between teacher and student shows that this is mainly women's struggle - women's work is to nurture girls in an appropriate way in American society, men The responsibility is small. For Rockwell, when I was young I am cute when I was a child, but as I get older, girls' self-reliance and "masculinity" must be suppressed.

The title of the picture is "cute", it is difficult to make a small look down among the students, side by side is "male", it is a dark circle of movement. Again, this conflict supports Rockwell's view - the girl fighting is not "male".

If you can ignore gender sub-text within this picture it is still wonderful. The application of social studies classes is obvious - people can ask students what the picture is to understand more deeply the hidden information of the work.

The famous American illustrator Norman Rockwell's work was closely related to the American boy scouts during the majority of the 20th century. Beginning in 1943, Rockwell started showing the cover of a boy 's life, this is the BSA Youth Magazine. He also drew an illustration of the organization's annual calendar from 1925 to 1976. In 1969, in commemoration of Rockwell's 75th birthday, Brown & Bigelow and the US Boy Scouts asked Rockwell to present a calendar illustration on the outside of easel. As part of the 1976 American anniversary ceremony, Rockwell's reconnaissance painting was visited nationwide and 280,000 people saw it. In 2008, 12 US cities Rockwell 's work was arranged.

Norman Rockwell (1894 - 1978) Daniel Boone, Pioneer Boy Scouts, 1914 Boy Life Story Illustration, Oil on canvas July 1914 © Norman Rockwell Family Agency. Copyright Norman Rockwell Museum Collection In 1914, Norman Rockwell produced 19 paintings and paintings to illustrate the story of Everett Tomlinson and Daniel Boone with eight books "The Life of Boys" Did. A central boy scout. Tomlinson's story occurred in 1773 when the Virginia Governor hired Boone to lead five families from the North Carolina State Yadkin through the Shawnee Indian Wilderness hunting ground to the Virginia clinch settlement.