Thursday, January 19, 2012

The Problem We All Lived With


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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