# @normanrockwellofficial on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CFPujb-javy
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/15175234-normanrockwellofficial-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-09-17T17:17:50.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Norman Rockwell (@Normanrockwellofficial) — https://gondola.cc/Normanrockwellofficial

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BLACKSMITH’S BOY – HEEL AND TOE

Storytelling is a word frequently associated with the work of #normanrockwell . For nearly 75 years, this beloved #artist captured the #imagination of #American audiences through the warm and witty #images he created as commissions for the country’s most prominent publications and companies. Though he is best known for the over 300 works he executed for the cover of satevepost , Rockwell also rendered thousands of #illustrations that accompanied the short stories and other works of fiction that filled its pages. Painted in 1940, Blacksmith’s Boy—Heel and Toe represents one of the most ambitious and successful of these commissions, a work of extraordinary scale and #complexity that testifies to the artist’s unparalleled ability to make the words of an author come alive through his #visual interpretation.

Ultimately, a work like Blacksmith’s Boy—Heel and Toe manifests Rockwell’s matchless ability to conjure the elements of a #complex narrative—plot, #character , and setting—with a single image. Rockwell’s career developed and flourished in tandem with the rise in #popularity of American film-making. The manner in which Rockwell executed his most #ambitious paintings is often compared to film direction, but beyond these similarities in process, Rockwell’s paintings also evoke a #quality that is undeniably #cinematic . At their core, notes Todd McCarthy, Rockwell’s images, “convey what movies do—pieces of time— #moments that present recognizable characters in quickly comprehensible situations rife with comedy, #drama, and the things of life” 

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