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Stormin' Norman - Letters
Washington Monthly, Dec, 2001 by Robert J. Sindelir
Current efforts to romanticize the life of Norman Rockwell, and thereby make him into an "artist," should not surprise anyone with a serious interest in art ("Reconstructing Rockwell," October 2001). Although Rockwell was delighted to be called an "illustrator," that word in a serious art context has unfortunately always been a pejorative.
Precisely for that reason, Thomas Krens of the Guggenheim Museum and others who relentlessly pursue a policy of trivializing art (having already done homages to the Armani rag trade and Harley Hawg Heaven) have chosen Rockwell for the next level. Art has never had to worry about the Philistines at the gates. The dangerous ones are on the inside. Let us look forward to a retrospective of Walter Keane and Co., the painter of the big-eyed children from the tie-dyed past.
ROBERT J. SINDELIR Miami, Fla.
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