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After the Moral Apocalypse - A Response to Rockwell
Jared Barbick · 2 works in this exhibition
- Mediumwoodcut
- Image size55 x 35 cm - framed 70 x 52 cm
- Edition1 of 2
- Year2026
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About the artwork
My work attacks the falsehood presented in Norman Rockwell's 1943 work titled "Freedom from Want" of the "Four Freedoms" series inspired by FDR%u2019s speech. Initially pitched to the War Department & rejected by the Office of War Information, his work was done for the Saturday Evening Post. Norman%u2019s work was used by the media & the Federal Government to push the false narrative that all will have food abundance & unfettered wealth. 80 years later, my work offers a view of where we might be in 2043 under current government immigration & policing policies coupled with the continuance of today%u2019s deepening racial and political divide. When side-by-side to Norman%u2019s, this work highlights an absence of kids, of food & abundance, and presents a world of scarcity, one where even the wealthy are not insulated.