ROCKWELL

Rockwell, The Modern Artist

By: Guinevere Grance

Today's modern day culture most certainly feels like a circus, and it most definitely feels as if we are surrounded by clowns!

In relevant tandem with today's feelings, the modern artist, Rockwell, seemed to be the most appropriate and the most recognizable of the modern art movement.

Today's modern art movements seems to have a primitive flavor to it, reflective of post-periods and modern intrinsic, natural emotions. Sweeping, fluid strokes have given way to powerful lines and strong and muted colors, living in harmony. Evoked emotions are strength, limits, defined moments and feelings.

Rockwell's work seems to reflect part and parcel, the joy evoked from within, when we recall the memories of seeing our first circus and watching the antics of our first clown. The feelings he garners from his viewing audience are genuine, and his audience cannot help but to feel that joie de vie so easily flowing from his work.

Clown portraits are a favorite of his. If you knew him, you would akin his clown thought line to himself; because of his lighthearted, yet strong dominant nature. His clowns are so jovial because of his inner-will and his dedication to his audience. It is always important to this artist to have his audience feel as he does; to allow them to feel what he feels as he feels it. To bring them in, to remind them of that basic, primitive happiness of their once carefree life; their life filled with cotton candy and lollipops and the warmth of hearth and home. The time when all was possible and the world as a whole was inconceivable. Rockwell draws his audience in, and shares and reminds them of all that was felt, and all that may be felt again.

Rockwell, the artist, is really quite a natural. He doesn't have to force himself to create. His creative moments are everyday, at anytime, whenever he feels. His art is an extension of who he is as a human being. His art is more than art, it is as if it is a part of his very breathing, without it, he would wither.

He is always patient with his work and knows that special moment when it is completed. His style is unique and his strokes are sure. When one is given the opportunity to sit in Rockwell's studio while he creates, a calm silence abounds with specific energy of creativity and emotion. Although he is not alone in his studio, silence is a natural companion. One does not simply chatter about with him, one sits patiently until he lifts his head in allowance of voice and sound. And when Rockwell's eyes return to his piece, it is time again for silence and appreciation of his process.

He works with natural bright sunlight streaming in from his historic federal-georgian manor home. His studio is spread between two rooms in his main manor and loft in his carriage house, depending upon his medium and his mood. He is a modern soul in a modern world, reminding us of times gone-by in a century's old tradition of entertainment.

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