The Problem We All
Lived With, painted by Norman Rockwell in 1964. The scene takes place in
the South Of United states on November 14, 1964, where an African American girl
is protected by the polices from the white people throwing things at her.
Some of the details shown in the painting was a little
African American girl guarded by four white federal government agents. The four
federal agents all wore suits and had a band on their arm that said Deputy U.S Marshal. There were also
tomatoes on the ground and on the walls there were words written such as the
K.K.K, which stand for the Ku Klux Klan. The Ku Klux Klan is a group of
Christian white people, who bombed, hung, and killed any African American they
saw.
The impression of a viewer after seeing this painting would
be shocked as how the way the other people treated the little girl, and she
being so innocent didn’t do anything. I think that the artist’s intention of
the painting was to show how she and other African Americans were treated, with
insulting writings on the wall and throwing tomatoes at them.
Seeing the African American girl were a white dress showed
that she was against racism and also everyone else in the picture were wearing
gray and not standing out while the little African American girl stood out
making her more important than everyone else. As the faces of all the federal
agents were cut showed that the main focus was on the little girl being hit by tomatoes.
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