Thursday, October 1, 2009
Art / Film Surprise, Surprise: George Lucas and Steven Spielberg Think Norman Rockwell is Swell
Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 1:34 PM
Appropriately, the exhibition will be organized around parallels between Rockwell's art and the movies. As Virginia M. Mecklenburg, a senior curator at the Smithsonian, told the Post: "Rockwell once said if he hadn't been an illustrator, he would have loved to be a movie director. He was very careful about lighting and had a cinematic way of looking at things." Of course, the announcement also confirms everything you might have imagined about Lucas and Spielberg's taste in art: bo-ring! (Artinfo)
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Regardless of easy Spielberg-likes-Rockwell-what-a-square-isms, I'd put his (Spielberg's) art against almost any mainstream American director and plenty of non-mainstream ones too.
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Agreed, some of Spielberg's films are among my all-time favorites too–has anyone ever done so much with so little as he did in Duel? I'm just saying, it's unfortunately predictable that these two would go for Rockwell's sentimental kitsch.
