I started wondering if Norman Rockwell was alive today and painting what his paintings would look like? For instance, maybe he'd paint a setting in an airport with sleeping travelers whose flights had been canceled. A big red headed guy sprawled out in an airport seat, sound asleep with his mouth wide open, I can see that.
Or perhaps a painting of a check out line in Walmart with all the customers with that weird bluetooth contraption hooked to their ears......that would be about right.
Perhaps an older woman, frumpy in her curlers and robe, sitting at her computer quite confused.
Maybe he'd paint a group of teenage girls comparing their new cell phones in various colors of blue and pink and purple.
How about a couple sitting on the couch with the remote flicking through a million chanels they are able to get on television these day?
And maybe, just maybe, he could capture the scene in our office yesterday. A 30 something lady, with a tatoo on her neck, waiting to see the Doctor. She had an ipod in her ear and she was singing out loud (much to everyone's distress) to her music.
Yep, if Norman lived today I believe his paintings would be quite different but hold the same charm as always and he'd capture life as we know it today, just as he did when he lived.
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