Ahead of US Midterms, Artists Diversify Norman Rockwell’s ‘Four Freedoms’ with Help from Rosario Dawson – 在美国中期，艺术家们在罗莎里奥·道森的帮助下使诺曼·洛克威尔的“四自由”多样化。
Ahead of US Midterms, Artists Diversify Norman Rockwell’s ‘Four Freedoms’ with Help from Rosario Dawson
Artist collective For Freedoms’s campaign draws attention to issues of diversity and civic responsibility in the election run-up
‘Freedom of Speech’ featuring Rosario Dawson. Courtesy: For Freedoms
‘Freedom of Speech’ featuring Rosario Dawson. Courtesy: For Freedoms
The non-profit political arts platform For Freedoms, founded by artists Hank Willis Thomas and Eric Gottesman, have issued a new campaign which reimagines Norman Rockwell’s iconic ‘Four Freedoms’ (1943) paintings, restaged with a crew of artists and activists including actors Rosario Dawson and Jesse Williams, and news commentator Van Jones. Artist Michele Pred and Whitney Museum curator Rujeko Hockley also feature in the images. The campaign was thought up by Thomas and photographed by Emily Shur.
Norman Rockwell, Freedom of Speech, 1943. Courtesy: Wikimedia Commons
Norman Rockwell, Freedom of Speech, 1943. Courtesy: Wikimedia Commons
Rockwell’s original oil paintings, from which Thomas and Gottesman’s project takes its name, constitute four illustrations of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s landmark State of the Union address, delivered in 1941, setting out its key visions for the nation: freedom of speech, freedom from fear, freedom from want and freedom of worship.
‘Freedom from Fear’. Courtesy: For Freedoms
‘Freedom from Fear’. Courtesy: For Freedoms
In For Freedoms’s 21st-century recreation, the ‘Four Freedoms’ now feature a more diverse cast to reflect the multicultualism of contemporary America, with images that include Muslim and Native American characters. Rockwell ‘really shaped the iconography of America and our visual culture […] There are a lot of people who are missing in those images,’ Thomas told TIME.
Courtesy: For Freedoms
Courtesy: For Freedoms
The images will be used in For Freedoms’s 50 State Initiative, billed as the ‘largest creative collaboration in US history’ which aims to generate public debate and political conversation ahead of the US’s mid-term elections, through a series of artist-designed billboards. Tania Bruguera, Marilyn Minter and Trevor Paglen and others are already signed up to the project. For Freedoms describes itself as an ‘anti-partisan’ project, attempting to reach out to those who feel marginalized by traditional political processes.
“言论自由”以罗莎里奥·道森为特色。礼仪：为了自由，由艺术家汉克·威利斯·托马斯和埃里克·戈特斯曼创立的非营利性政治艺术平台“争取自由”组织发起了一项新的活动，重新构思了诺曼·洛克威尔的标志性作品《四个自由》（1943年），由艺术家和艺术家组成的画团重新展出。包括演员罗莎里奥·道森和杰斯·威廉姆斯和新闻评论员Van Jones在内的演讲者。艺术家Michele Pred和惠特尼博物馆馆长Rujeko Hockley也在照片中扮演角色。这场运动是由托马斯想出的，由Emily Shur拍摄。诺曼·洛克威尔，言论自由，1943。礼貌：WikimdiaCalm WPA6022602IMG诺曼·洛克威尔，言论自由，1943。礼貌：维基媒体下议院洛克威尔的原油画，托马斯和戈特斯曼的作品取名于此，构成了富兰克林·D·罗斯福总统在1941年发表的具有里程碑意义的国情咨文演说的四幅插图，阐明了罗斯福在国家：言论自由、免于恐惧、摆脱匮乏和信仰自由。“免于恐惧”。礼貌：为了自由，WPA602602IMG“免于恐惧”。礼仪：为了自由。在《为了自由》的21世纪的娱乐节目中，“四个自由”现在以更加多样化的演员阵容为特色，以反映当代美国的多元文化主义，包括穆斯林和美洲原住民角色。托马斯告诉《时代》周刊说，洛克韦尔“真正塑造了美国形象和我们的视觉文化[…]这些图像中有许多人失踪。”礼貌：为了自由在美国中期选举之前，通过一系列艺术家设计的广告牌。Tania Bruguera、Marilyn Minter和Trevor Paglen等已经签署了该项目。因为“自由”自称是一个“反党派”项目，试图接触那些被传统政治进程边缘化的人。新闻/自由新闻新闻汉克威利斯托马斯诺尔曼罗克韦尔罗萨里奥道森美国选举政治民主FRIZE特稿 ARThing编译
