Springfield Senior High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Springfield, OH)

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47 The simple things, the homey things in the life of the common man have been spread over the colorful canvasses of the American artist Norman Rockwell for the past thirty years. The antics of a basket of pups, the anguish of a sixteen year old jilted lover, six year olds and their lemonade stand, the Easter parade and those things called hats, the anemic old postmaster in his rustic post office borrowing a Lovers' Magazine . . . all have labeled Norman Rockwell as the artist of and for the common man. When the Four Freedoms were flashed to the world, great editors realized the need for dramatic paintings to bring home these truths to all the people. Norman Rockwell was the artist who could most effectively dramatize this new political philosophy. Sponsored by the Saturday Evening Post, he gave the Four Freedoms visual interpretation. His models were his neighbors. His critics were his neigh- bors. In fact the plain, simple folk who lived around him did the four great paintings. Norman Rockwell merely mixed the colors, wielded the brush, worried and suffered.

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ff Democracy is on the march. No play or light moments for us after school. Seventy per cent of us rush to war plants, to stores at the close of the school day. Without fanfare our friends entel the armed services. Our class work, our thinking has been keyed to the new life and hope of the Four Freedoms. We, who edit and publish the yearbook, keep before us con- stantly the dramatization of the Four Freedoms. We live and express this philosophy here in our own little world at Springfield High School. To the world at large Norman Rockwell gave visual in- terpretation to this thought. This, the 1944 volume of the Wildcat, is our own expression of the Four Freedoms. We Pew, maart .,-ma